Leaks, We Have Leaks, We Have Lots and Lots of Leaks

By Rich Kozlovich 

Yesterday it was reported that one of the senior advisers, and personal friend, of Secretary of Defense Dan Caldwell was escorted out of the Pentagon by security and placed on administrative leave over the investigation concerning leaks.  Today it's being reported two more senior advisers suffered the same fate.  Deputy Chief of Staff Darin Selnick, and Colin Carroll, who worked as chief of staff for Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg, and CNN is reporting what this really is all about is power mongering over conflict with Hegseth's Chief of Staff Joe Kasper.  But that came from CNN, and when they're not deliberately lying, they're invariably wrong, so I give no credence to that at all. 

These are serious allegations, and you just don't throw people under the bus with these kinds of allegations, it destructive to morale, and crushes any sense of loyalty, and the willingness to say what they think, and they're serving out of fear, not commitment to the mission.  

Of course the chorus from the left is screaming Hegseth has to go, calling him a national security threat,  and for the uninformed and misinformed, that may have some play, but for those who know about things, that's not why they're outraged, it ain't gonna happen, especially when it's coming from the greatest national security threat the nation really faces, the Democrat party.

So, let's try and get this right.  Leaks at the highest levels is not now, nor has it ever been, the exception.  It's the rule, and every President in my life has expressed outrage over them.  Years ago I read, The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting, by now passed Washington journalist Bob Novak, who I met by the way, where he openly discussed how leaks are as ubiquitous in Washington as rain is in April.   

So, if that's true, and it is, what are they really so outraged about?  Hegseth's cleaning house, and they want it stopped!  He's purging the politicized ranking officers that embraced the idiocy of DEI that Obama and Biden put in place, and did so by purging real officers who believed the military isn't a social experiment, it's a fighting machine.  And they're cleaning up the military academies.   As Susan Quinn notes:

It’s going to be hard work because the rot is deep, and the Democrats are fighting the changes, but it needs to be done if we’re to have a strong military leadership.  For years, our military has been on a path to wokeness and weakness. Expecting our soldiers to be warriors was anathema to the diversity, equity, and inclusion goal. And now we have reaped the pathetic outcomes of a military that is ill-prepared to protect our country and serve its people.  President Trump is determined, with the hard work of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, to turn this situation around. They know, as do the officials from the academies, that it will be hard work......

Make no mistake, as long as Hegseth is following the plan outlined by the President, he's gonna stay, because if he can be ousted by all this hysterical nonsense from the media and the left, no one will be safe, he will never get anyone to take that job and do what needs to be done.  

• Update, 4/19/24, 10:44: JUST IN: Hegseth Chief of Staff to Leave His Role Amid Shakeup at Pentagon After Leaks Probe.  -