Mr. Hegseth has a new obsession and has created a task force for it. Wait til you hear what this is about. It’s one of the most ridiculous things we’ve heard overall, not just a Hegseth thing. But that’s okay because he’s been out of the news for a while, so we get to rib on him mercilessly because he deserves it. This bantam rooster thinks he knows everything, so it’s great when he’s caught out on something. With thanks to Raw Story:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced backlash Monday after announcing a new task force to hunt and prosecute “leakers,” drawing an immediate rebuke from CNN anchor Jake Tapper. Hegseth posted a video to X Monday morning announcing that the Pentagon and the Justice Department had created a joint task force to identify and prosecute anyone who leaks sensitive military information. “Some call them whistleblowers,” Tapper fired back. “When they’re alerting the public to government lies and malfeasance, for instance.”
Exactly. There has been quite a variety of whistleblowers (”leaks”) over time, some who actually just leaked, and some who brought corruption into the light, from Edward Snowden to Cassidy Hutchinson. Imagine how much courage it takes to step up and speak out. But this with Hegseth has pure worry behind it, because he’s afraid something will get out that will make him look bad. Petey Boy has already done that with the Iran War. And SignalGate I and II. And yanking all the highest-ranking military personnel to come into Quantico so he could strut on a stage and yell and…….you get the idea. Leakers shouldn’t matter anymore because he’s seriously screwed up already.
In a second post, Tapper linked to the Pentagon’s own inspector general report on Hegseth’s use of Signal, a commercial messaging app. “I know of one leak that put our brave pilots at risk!” Tapper wrote. That report, released in December 2025, found that Hegseth had shared sensitive strike details — including the quantity and strike times of manned U.S. aircraft over hostile territory — on an unsecured app hours before those pilots launched their mission over Yemen. The Pentagon watchdog concluded Hegseth “did not comply” with department policy. The journalist who received the information had been inadvertently added to the chat by then-National Security Adviser Mike Waltz.
We’d love to know what turned him into the paranoid’s paranoid. He is absolutely out of hand with this. Information will get out one way or another. And how is he going to override the First Amendment? If they signed an NDA or something like that, then they talked out of place, maybe he could get them for leaking. However, since your writer has no legal information except what has been learned here on Pz, these are all theories. Petey Boy still doesn’t have room to talk.
“Not as dangerous as installing an angry adolescent at the Pentagon to play ‘Secretary of War‘ and botch an armed conflict in the Middle East,” former CNN White House correspondent John Harwood wrote on X, also pushing back against Hegseth’s announcement. Monday’s crackdown was not Hegseth’s first. In April 2025, as the Signal scandal swirled and his own conduct was under investigation, Hegseth suspended three senior Pentagon officials he accused of leaking — then went on Fox News to declare: “Once a leaker, always a leaker, often a leaker.” “Accountability starts at the top,” Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) told The Intercept at the time. “Secretary Hegseth has refused to take responsibility for his own mishandling of classified information, but has readily punished others for far less.”
We won’t get into his blatant male chauvinism. That makes me angry. Have I mentioned his disgusting preacher lately? The one who thinks women should stay home and not vote? What a pair those two make. They’re going backwards in time, not forward. So Hegseth is putting together a task force to hunt down leakers. He needs to look at himself. It’s really annoying that nothing happened to him when HE was leaking. He sees in black and white. To him, there are no gray areas, but life is full of them. And it appears he’s safe in his job, for now. For now. You never know what the future holds.
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