This guy is soooo over the top on everything. The more information that comes out, the worse it gets (and looks). Too bad he isn’t doing very well at his actual job. He’s too busy with his suspicions, relatives, mistakes, and pontificating. No wonder he’s a part of Trump’s cabinet! From AlterNet:
The administration of President Donald Trump reacted badly to a Washington Post story reporting that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quadrupled his security detail over that of past administrations to guard his multiple homes and properties. The Post reported Wednesday that “Hegseth’s unusually large personal security requirements are straining the Army agency tasked with protecting him as it pulls agents from criminal investigations to safeguard family residences in Minnesota, Tennessee, and D.C., according to numerous officials familiar with the operation.
Yea. Excess. He certainly likes ordering people around, doesn’t he? Suspicions – making people in the DoD take lie detector tests and firing them if he didn’t like their answers. Protection for anyone even remotely related to him. More on that in a moment. How about taking his wife with him everywhere he goes, *including* classified briefings. And his share of the Signal debacles. Geez.
Described by the Post as a “sprawling, multimillion-dollar initiative,” the security team has forced the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division to staff weeks-long assignments in each location and monitor residences belonging to Hegseths’ former spouses, say officials. “I’ve never seen this many security teams for one guy,” said one official, speaking anonymously to reporters. “Nobody has.” Sources told the Post about 150 agents typically serve on VIP security details, but one source said Hegseth’s team is “400 and going up,” while another claimed it was “over 500.”
I guess it doesn’t matter since he’s not spending his own money. He’ll have to if we ever get him out of government. Well, okay, I think he’ll have to. From what we know of Hegseth, he may find a way to make us taxpayers continue to fund it. THREE residences? And include his ex-wives? Oyy. Moving on…
“By publishing details about Secretary Hegseth’s security protocols, the Washington Post is actively putting him and his family in danger for clicks, posted Department of Defense Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson on X. Acting Deputy Press Secretary Joel Valdez claimed the Post “intentionally published sensitive details of [Hegseth’s] security detail for him and his family — putting their safety at risk.” He even called for “severe punishment for what [reporters] are doing.”
But …
None of the Department of Defense commenters explained in their posts how citing the size of Hegseth’s detail endangered lives as of early Wednesday morning.
This is not a surprise. All hot air. No substance. If they think this is so bad, where’s the *proof*? I see no proof. None will ever be provided, just like what leaks are the ones that came out of the DoD that Hegseth was so bent about? He’s a thousand ways of being ridiculous. I don’t see that changing.
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Come on…someone has to watch over his shit while he tours the world on the taxpayers’ dime.