The Sec. of War has been a busy bee. Not in a good way.

[berg80]

Hegseth orders ‘ruthless’ review of JAGs. Some see an attempt to evade accountability​

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday ordered an overhaul of the military’s civilian and uniformed legal offices, raising fears among current and former members of the judge advocate general corps that he will gut legal oversight of the administration’s actions.

“I'm directing the service secretaries, the Army, Navy, and Air Force through their general counsels and JAGs and the [staff judge advocate] to the commandant to execute a ruthless, no-excuses review,” Hegseth said in a video posted on Wednesday. “Scrub it clean, cut duplication and bureaucracy, clarify roles, and reporting. No more moral ambiguity.”

Members of the military’s legal community who spoke to Defense One said they are as skeptical of Hegseth’s message as they are of his timing.

The call to reorder the “current allocation of legal resources and functions” of the Defense Department’s civilian and uniformed lawyers comes as the U.S. is fighting a war with Iran—a conflict some experts have claimed is illegal, and which has involved an airstrike on an Iranian elementary school that left 175 people dead. The investigation into that airstrike is going on now, and early evidence reportedly points to the U.S. as the responsible party.

Hegseth posted his latest video a little more than a year after he fired the Army, Navy, and Air Force’s top lawyers, claiming they were “roadblocks to orders that are given by a commander in chief.”

Hegseth orders ‘ruthless’ review of JAGs. Some see an attempt to evade accountability

Current and former military lawyers question the secretary’s motives and timing.

www.defenseone.com

Hegseth says he fired the top military lawyers because they weren’t well suited for the jobs​

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that he was replacing the top lawyers for the military services because he didn’t think they were “well-suited” to provide recommendations when lawful orders are given.

Speaking at the start of a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s defense minister, Hegseth refused to answer a question about why the Trump administration has selected a retired general to be the next Joint Chiefs chairman, when he doesn’t meet the legal qualifications for the job.

Hegseth says he fired the top military lawyers because they weren't well suited for the jobs

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he is replacing the top lawyers for the military services because he doesn't think they are “well-suited” to provide recommendations when lawful orders are given.

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Surely everyone can see what is happening here. But I'll spell it out anyway. The translation for not being “well-suited” to provide recommendations when lawful orders are given is, "We don't want JAG's around who tell us what we are doing is illegal."

You'd have to have just fallen off the turnip truck to think what Pete is doing is about cutting bureaucracy. This is about unfettered "lethality" without pesky lawyers telling you blowing people up in international waters is against domestic and international law.

Trump's Boat Strikes Are Illegal. The Public Needs Answers.​

Trump's Boat Strikes Are Illegal. The Public Needs Answers. | ACLU

The Trump administration must release its legal justification and all other materials related to its illegal lethal strikes on civilian boats at sea.

www.aclu.org

The civilian version of this looks a little different. It's hiring hacks like Jeanine Pirro and Lindsey Halligan to pursue politicized prosecutions against enemies. It's hiring Pam Bondi who is standing idly by as the regime violates the Epstein File Transparency Act every day since the deadline for releasing all the files passed. It's naming to the federal bench Emil Bove, who told DoJ lawyers to disregard court orders that blocked the regime from deporting immigrants. It's ICE violating nearly 100 court orders in MN as agents terrorized the Minneapolis community.

The overarching goal is to be accountable to no one and to be held responsible for nothing. Just the way trump has lived his life................and the way he wants to run the country.

 

[ColonelAngus]

 

[theHawk]

Hegseth orders ‘ruthless’ review of JAGs. Some see an attempt to evade accountability​

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday ordered an overhaul of the military’s civilian and uniformed legal offices, raising fears among current and former members of the judge advocate general corps that he will gut legal oversight of the administration’s actions.

“I'm directing the service secretaries, the Army, Navy, and Air Force through their general counsels and JAGs and the [staff judge advocate] to the commandant to execute a ruthless, no-excuses review,” Hegseth said in a video posted on Wednesday. “Scrub it clean, cut duplication and bureaucracy, clarify roles, and reporting. No more moral ambiguity.”

Members of the military’s legal community who spoke to Defense One said they are as skeptical of Hegseth’s message as they are of his timing.

The call to reorder the “current allocation of legal resources and functions” of the Defense Department’s civilian and uniformed lawyers comes as the U.S. is fighting a war with Iran—a conflict some experts have claimed is illegal, and which has involved an airstrike on an Iranian elementary school that left 175 people dead. The investigation into that airstrike is going on now, and early evidence reportedly points to the U.S. as the responsible party.

Hegseth posted his latest video a little more than a year after he fired the Army, Navy, and Air Force’s top lawyers, claiming they were “roadblocks to orders that are given by a commander in chief.”

Hegseth orders ‘ruthless’ review of JAGs. Some see an attempt to evade accountability

Current and former military lawyers question the secretary’s motives and timing.

www.defenseone.com

Hegseth says he fired the top military lawyers because they weren’t well suited for the jobs​

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that he was replacing the top lawyers for the military services because he didn’t think they were “well-suited” to provide recommendations when lawful orders are given.

Speaking at the start of a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s defense minister, Hegseth refused to answer a question about why the Trump administration has selected a retired general to be the next Joint Chiefs chairman, when he doesn’t meet the legal qualifications for the job.

Hegseth says he fired the top military lawyers because they weren't well suited for the jobs

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he is replacing the top lawyers for the military services because he doesn't think they are “well-suited” to provide recommendations when lawful orders are given.

apnews.com

Surely everyone can see what is happening here. But I'll spell it out anyway. The translation for not being “well-suited” to provide recommendations when lawful orders are given is, "We don't want JAG's around who tell us what we are doing is illegal."

You'd have to have just fallen off the turnip truck to think what Pete is doing is about cutting bureaucracy. This is about unfettered "lethality" without pesky lawyers telling you blowing people up in international waters is against domestic and international law.

Trump's Boat Strikes Are Illegal. The Public Needs Answers.​

Trump's Boat Strikes Are Illegal. The Public Needs Answers. | ACLU

The Trump administration must release its legal justification and all other materials related to its illegal lethal strikes on civilian boats at sea.

www.aclu.org

The civilian version of this looks a little different. It's hiring hacks like Jeanine Pirro and Lindsey Halligan to pursue politicized prosecutions against enemies. It's hiring Pam Bondi who is standing idly by as the regime violates the Epstein File Transparency Act every day since the deadline for releasing all the files passed. It's naming to the federal bench Emil Bove, who told DoJ lawyers to disregard court orders that blocked the regime from deporting immigrants. It's ICE violating nearly 100 court orders in MN as agents terrorized the Minneapolis community.

The overarching goal is to be accountable to no one and to be held responsible for nothing. Just the way trump has lived his life................and the way he wants to run the country.

Good. There are so many socialist plants in the military.

 

[berg80]

Good. There are so many socialist plants in the military.

You're channeling Joe McCarthy to justify the unjustifiable.

 

[berg80]

Hegseth ignored military officials when he slashed offices that limit risk to civilians​

Top military officials warned the Pentagon unsuccessfully last year not to gut oversight offices that limit risk to civilian casualties and investigate responsibility for their deaths, such as the recent strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed hundreds of children.

Then-Central Command chief Erik Kurilla and Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. C.Q. Brown pushed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth not to slash the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence and other similar initiatives at American command posts, according to Wes Bryant, the Pentagon’s former chief of civilian harm assessments and two other people familiar with the matter.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/13/military-leaders-warned-hegseth-not-to-gut-offices-that-limit-risk-to-civilians-00827722

I guess Pete thinks you can't maximize lethality and give a shit about civilian casualties at the same time.

 

[Nostra]

Hegseth orders ‘ruthless’ review of JAGs. Some see an attempt to evade accountability​

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday ordered an overhaul of the military’s civilian and uniformed legal offices, raising fears among current and former members of the judge advocate general corps that he will gut legal oversight of the administration’s actions.

“I'm directing the service secretaries, the Army, Navy, and Air Force through their general counsels and JAGs and the [staff judge advocate] to the commandant to execute a ruthless, no-excuses review,” Hegseth said in a video posted on Wednesday. “Scrub it clean, cut duplication and bureaucracy, clarify roles, and reporting. No more moral ambiguity.”

Members of the military’s legal community who spoke to Defense One said they are as skeptical of Hegseth’s message as they are of his timing.

The call to reorder the “current allocation of legal resources and functions” of the Defense Department’s civilian and uniformed lawyers comes as the U.S. is fighting a war with Iran—a conflict some experts have claimed is illegal, and which has involved an airstrike on an Iranian elementary school that left 175 people dead. The investigation into that airstrike is going on now, and early evidence reportedly points to the U.S. as the responsible party.

Hegseth posted his latest video a little more than a year after he fired the Army, Navy, and Air Force’s top lawyers, claiming they were “roadblocks to orders that are given by a commander in chief.”

Hegseth orders ‘ruthless’ review of JAGs. Some see an attempt to evade accountability

Current and former military lawyers question the secretary’s motives and timing.

www.defenseone.com

Hegseth says he fired the top military lawyers because they weren’t well suited for the jobs​

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that he was replacing the top lawyers for the military services because he didn’t think they were “well-suited” to provide recommendations when lawful orders are given.

Speaking at the start of a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s defense minister, Hegseth refused to answer a question about why the Trump administration has selected a retired general to be the next Joint Chiefs chairman, when he doesn’t meet the legal qualifications for the job.

Hegseth says he fired the top military lawyers because they weren't well suited for the jobs

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he is replacing the top lawyers for the military services because he doesn't think they are “well-suited” to provide recommendations when lawful orders are given.

apnews.com

Surely everyone can see what is happening here. But I'll spell it out anyway. The translation for not being “well-suited” to provide recommendations when lawful orders are given is, "We don't want JAG's around who tell us what we are doing is illegal."

You'd have to have just fallen off the turnip truck to think what Pete is doing is about cutting bureaucracy. This is about unfettered "lethality" without pesky lawyers telling you blowing people up in international waters is against domestic and international law.

Trump's Boat Strikes Are Illegal. The Public Needs Answers.​

Trump's Boat Strikes Are Illegal. The Public Needs Answers. | ACLU

The Trump administration must release its legal justification and all other materials related to its illegal lethal strikes on civilian boats at sea.

www.aclu.org

The civilian version of this looks a little different. It's hiring hacks like Jeanine Pirro and Lindsey Halligan to pursue politicized prosecutions against enemies. It's hiring Pam Bondi who is standing idly by as the regime violates the Epstein File Transparency Act every day since the deadline for releasing all the files passed. It's naming to the federal bench Emil Bove, who told DoJ lawyers to disregard court orders that blocked the regime from deporting immigrants. It's ICE violating nearly 100 court orders in MN as agents terrorized the Minneapolis community.

The overarching goal is to be accountable to no one and to be held responsible for nothing. Just the way trump has lived his life................and the way he wants to run the country.

OH NOS!

Some lefttard pansy is askeered something might happen!

Berg: “I must run it USMESSAGEBOARD to start a pissy pants thread”

 

[berg80]

OH NOS!

Some lefttard pansy is askeered something might happen!

Berg: “I must run it USMESSAGEBOARD to start a pissy pants thread”

Opponents of the move, which also included Adm. Christopher Grady — the former vice chair of the Joint Chiefs — argued that the staff were critical to preventing risks to civilian populations before U.S. strikes and to probing deadly Pentagon attacks, according to the people, and would ultimately save resources for military operations. Hegseth instead chose to reduce the number of employees working on the issue from 200 to less than 40.

Our standing in the world has taken another hit by killing all those school girls, not taking responsibility, and not issuing a statement of regret.

 

[Nostra]

Defenseone.com

Opponents of the move, which also included Adm. Christopher Grady — the former vice chair of the Joint Chiefs — argued that the staff were critical to preventing risks to civilian populations before U.S. strikes and to probing deadly Pentagon attacks, according to the people, and would ultimately save resources for military operations. Hegseth instead chose to reduce the number of employees working on the issue from 200 to less than 40.

Our standing in the world has taken another hit by killing all those school girls, not taking responsibility, and not issuing a statement of regret.

Cry more, loser.

 

[berg80]

The high level of opposition to the cuts, which has not been previously reported, hints at the tension between top military officials and their civilian leader over the rules of engagement in combat, which the Pentagon chief has called “stupid.” It also comes as preliminary reports suggest the U.S. may have accidentally targeted the elementary school, which killed more than 170 students and is the largest U.S.-led killing of civilians in decades.

“As it turns out, when you kill less civilians, you tend to be putting your resources toward killing the enemy,” said Bryant, who served in the Biden and Trump administrations. “When they spend weeks or longer tracking some guy and then finally killing him, and then realize he’s just an aid worker, look at all those resources they spent, all that time, the funding, wasted munitions too, and assets wasted on the wrong person.”

 

[Clipper]

Defenseone.com
Cry more, loser.

S'matter, Trump humper? Petey pissed because he can't bomb more civilians with impunity?

 

[d0gbreath]

I assumed Bondi would follow Noem out of the door. Word on the street has it that Hegseth is next.