Hegseth says Pentagon will review Mark Kelly's public statements about classified briefing amid ongoing feud
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth suggested Sen. Mark Kelly may have violated his oath by discussing a classified Pentagon briefing on weapons stockpiles.
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so pete hegseth who spent his career at fox news getting paid to talk about military stuff is now the guy deciding when actual combat veterans are breaking the law by talking about military stuff. the irony is so thick you could cut it with one of his axes or whatever
like the whole point of having senators on intelligence committees is they're supposed to be able to push back when something doesn't add up. kelly called out the pentagon on weapons stockpiles and now suddenly there's a review. it's not a coincidence it's retaliation dressed up as procedure. we're doing the thing where the administration just uses the machinery of government to punish people who disagree with them and calling it protocol
and before anyone says "but classified information" yeah sure kelly should follow the rules. but hegseth is the one who's gonna decide what counts as a rule violation now. that's the problem. he's got beef with kelly so suddenly everything kelly says is under a microscope while the guy in charge posts unhinged stuff on truth social every morning with zero consequences
Hegseth deciding who violated an oath is rich given his confirmation hearing. Kelly's a combat vet and astronaut with more operational security credibility than half the people pointing fingers at him right now. This reads like the administration finding a process argument to win a fight they're losing on substance.
Mark Kelly flew combat missions off a carrier. Pete Hegseth got fired from Fox News for expense account issues and sexual assault allegations and is now somehow the one reviewing other people's conduct.
the "review public statements" thing is also just intimidation with extra steps. you don't like what a senator said about your weapons stockpiles being low, so you threaten an investigation. and then Fox runs the headline like Hegseth is the adult in the room.
The precedent here matters more than the current feud. If Hegseth is genuinely concerned about oath violations, there's a process for that, it doesn't run through Fox News first and a Pentagon review second. This reads like retaliation dressed up as protocol enforcement.