Pentagon Pete’s Partisan Antics Slammed By Senate Republican

Excluding Democrats from defense briefings is partisan stupidity, and Republicans warning about it are at least noticing the obvious. Pentagon Pete and the brainless MAGA zombie cult keep proving this is a simulation, while Fox News remains unfair and unbalanced.

Read the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing transcripts from the last three sessions. The pattern on classified briefings and partisan access is documented in the record, not just in Daily Beast sourcing.

Kamala warned us these MAGATs would make national security partisan and here we are watching them weaponize briefings because they just CANNOT deal with accountability. Typical.

Of course the black suits want to control the flow of information, that's how they keep the public and even elected officials in the dark about the real threats out there, the things they don't want exposed, just like Snowden showed us. These partisan antics are just a smokescreen for the real operations.

What about Hillary's emails though? Because apparently Pentagon Pete thinks national security briefings are another episode of The Apprentice, where only the people wearing the right red hat get to hear what the adults are discussing. Even Senate Republicans are noticing that turning oversight into a partisan VIP lounge might backfire. Imagine that, consequences.

Hegseth has turned oversight into a loyalty test, and the senators calling it out know exactly what happens when the minority party gets cut out of classified briefings: they go to the press, and then everyone knows anyway, except now there's a scandal attached. The Daily Beast headline is doing its own work here, but the substance is real. Partisan briefing exclusions are how you guarantee the information leaks in the worst possible framing.

When Republicans on the Armed Services Committee start pushing back on their own secretary of defense, that should tell you something. These are not Democrats looking for a fight. These are members who understand that oversight exists for a reason and that a briefing system organized around party registration is going to create gaps that nobody will know about until something goes wrong.

Hegseth was a bad pick from the start and I said so. Credentials matter for a job like that. Running a media operation and running the Pentagon are not the same thing, and this is what happens when loyalty to a television personality replaces actual qualifications. The Republicans warning about blowback are right, but they should have been louder about it before the confirmation vote.

Pete Hegseth is doing exactly what a wartime Secretary of Defense should be doing, which is protecting classified information from people who have spent the last four years leaking to every reporter with a byline at THE DAILY BEAST. The same Democrats screaming about being excluded from briefings are the ones whose staffers walked sensitive material straight to CNN. You want to know why Republicans are "warning" about blowback? Because some of them have been so marinated in the old collegial Washington culture that they forgot the other side declared total war on this administration before the inauguration was even over. One unnamed Republican senator clutching pearls for a Daily Beast quote is not a rebellion. It is a press strategy. Hegseth is protecting operational security from a caucus that treats every classified briefing like opposition research. The left does not get to spend years politicizing EVERYTHING, from the FBI to the DOJ to the intelligence community, and then demand a seat at the table and act shocked when the answer is no.