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

[Leo123]

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.

He's flushing the Biden excrement.

 

[berg80]

Hegseth Fires Army Chief Amid Battle With Its Leaders​

Senior Army officers reacted with anger and frustration to news of Gen. Randy George’s dismissal, characterizing it as the latest blow to the service.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Gen. Randy George, the Army’s chief of staff, on Thursday, a move that reflects growing hostility between Mr. Hegseth and the Army’s leadership, military officials said.

General George, who was appointed to his position in 2023, led the Army out of one of its worst recruiting crises in history in 2024 and more recently has pushed the service to accelerate its acquisition of cheap drones and other kinds of weapons that have come to dominate the war in Ukraine.

The tension with Mr. Hegseth was not rooted in substantive differences over the direction of the Army, military officials said. Rather it is the product of Mr. Hegseth’s long-running grievances with the Army, battles over personnel and his troubled relationship with Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll, the officials said.

Over the last year, General George and Mr. Driscoll had formed a tight partnership, officials said.

Mr. Hegseth has also clashed in recent months with General George and Mr. Driscoll over the defense secretary’s decision to block the promotion of four Army officers to be one-star generals.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/us/politics/hegseth-fires-general-randy-george.html

Pete has become kind of a minitrump. Purging the military of anyone who lacks his vision of what our fighting forces should be all about. One of those things being "maximum lethality, not tepid legality." Translation: the rules of engagement be damned.

Defenders of all things trump, as they do with Don, will say Hegseth has the right to fire anyone he pleases. That's largely true. That anyone who disagrees with the policies he is enacting should be fired. Hold on.

Firing experienced officers in leadership positions, as well as JAG officers, may meet Pete's purposes but does it meet the country's? Have the aforementioned defenders considered the reason for the "tension" between Pete and so many high ranking officers is due to his lack of qualifications to hold the position of Sec. of Defense..........sorry........War. Might it be the case that while Pete was spouting lies on the weekend at a well known conservative media outlet, between benders, the people he has fired were gaining knowledge and experience absent from his portfolio?

Two of the officers targeted by Mr. Hegseth are Black and two are women on a promotion list that consisted of 29 other officers, most of whom are white men. Mr. Hegseth’s highly unusual decision to remove the officers prompted some senior military officials to question whether they were being singled out because of their race or gender, officials said.

Mr. Hegseth had been pressing Mr. Driscoll and General George for months to remove the officers from the promotion list. But Mr. Driscoll and General George refused, citing the officers’ long records of exemplary service.

Who is the better judge of whether people on a promotion list deserve to be moved up? Those who put them on the list or the guy who should have lost his job for including a journalist on an unsecure Signal chat conversation about an impending military operation?

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[berg80]

Gen. George says Army deserves ‘leaders of character’ in farewell letter​

Gen. Randy George, the U.S. Army’s chief of staff ousted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, on Friday sent a farewell letter saying the Army deserves “leaders of character.”

George thanked Army officials for their support in an email posted on Reddit’s Army page. An Army official confirmed the email’s legitimacy to The Hill.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5816539-general-george-farewell-letter/

Leaders of character. That rules out trump and Hegseth.