Okay, y’all, this is getting out of hand. It’s as if Petey Boy is accusing *everyone* in the DoD of leaking *something* – he just doesn’t know what. Bring in the lie detectors! See morale hit the ground and keep going down! You would think it couldn’t get worse, right? After SignalGate 1 and SignalGate 2, now his lawyer is being accused of having an illegal wiretap set on one of Pete’s ex-staffers’ cell phones. Good GRIEF. Bad news follows Pete around because it can and will (also) make it get worse at any time. From Edith Olmstead of The New Republic via Yahoo News:
Pete Hegseth’s lawyer suggested that the Pentagon may have fired three of the defense secretary’s top aides last month as the result of an illegal wiretap, according to an exclusive from The Guardian.
White House advisers were reportedly shocked when Tim Parlatore, Hegseth’s personal lawyer who was tasked with overseeing an investigation into a series of leaks at the Pentagon, told them that a warrantless wiretap was used to find classified documents on the phone of the secretary’s then–senior adviser, Dan Caldwell.
Excuse me? DUDE. You just keep proving that you’re an imbecile, just like your boss. *How* in the h*ll could something like this be done *illegally* by one of your people? Who is a *lawyer*?? Good gods. Really? (Yes, really.) And how could you be so *stupid* … wait, don’t answer that. I already know – because you have shown your brainlessness (since there isn’t much else, except alcohol) again and again. You need a better lawyer, you fool!
Caldwell was dismissed last month, alongside the chief of staff to the deputy defense secretary, Colin Carroll, and deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick. Hegseth was reportedly counseled to dismiss those three by Joe Kasper, his former chief of staff, as part of a detonating power struggle within their office. Kasper was reportedly close with Parlatore, who was charged with investigating his enemies at work, according to The Guardian.
In mid-April, White House advisers reportedly caught wind that there was evidence Caldwell had taken a photograph of U.S. military plans for Panama on his phone. After Caldwell was removed, they were disturbed that he maintained his innocence, claiming that individuals with “personal vendettas” against Hegseth’s three ousted advisers had “weaponized” the investigation against them.
Advisers also heard another rumor that the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, which had been looking into the leaked document, had focused its search on mid-level aides. They hadn’t turned their attention to the three top aides until the weekend after they were fired.
Hmmmm. What an amazing mess this is. There have also been rumors that half the day is spent looking for leaks. Paranoid much? *You* know, and *I* know, that there are many more important things to do! I just hope there are good people there outside of this whole insane nonsense who are taking care of actually *running* the DoD and only going to the moron when absolutely necessary. Alrighty, just a wee bit more, and we’ll close.
When the White House questioned Parlatore about how he’d determined that Caldwell had the leaked document on his phone, he suggested that a wiretap had taken place. He later denied this and said all the information he’d received had been passed to him from officials at the Pentagon. The Guardian noted that a warrantless wiretap, as this allegedly was, would “almost certainly be unconstitutional.”
While White House advisers found this claim to be untrue, The Guardian reported that the incident significantly undermined Parlatore’s credibility. The investigation was transferred to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, while Parlatore went to work on another case.
Seems like Petey Boy just keeps digging himself a deeper and deeper hole. This man won’t even think to bring a ladder. How long will it take, and how much more of a mess can he make of the DoD, before tRump decides that saving face now means kicking Pete to the curb? Remember, the only reason he got the position was because JC Vance was called in to break a tie vote. Kristi Gnome is making a mess of her department, too.
Truly, how long, and what, will it take to get them out? That’s a great question. I can’t even make a guess at how The Cheeto Prophet thinks anymore, especially with the dementia hitting him hard. Please, let us turn some things around at midterms. In the meantime, we can watch Petey Boy with amazement and see what new ridiculous misstep he makes next. Also looks like the original article was on The Guardian. Bonus points if you know the actual song I used for the title, ha! Thanks for sticking with me!
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they were shocked they hadn’t thought of just bugging everyone themselves.