With the Pentagon mired in a major crisis amid accusations that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth committed a war crime, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius reported there is one missing voice in all the hubbub.
During an appearance on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Joe Scarborough shared a clip of former Pentagon head Leon Panetta raising concerns about a deadly strike that reportedly killed two survivors of an earlier attack as they clung to the damaged vessel.
He then pressed Ignatuis, “David, where is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs? Where is General [Dan] Caine in all of this? We haven't heard anything from him.”
“So it’s a good question,” the columnist replied. “This is a period where the uniformed military is being asked, in effect, to take the fall for the Secretary of Defense. And you'd think that General Caine, at a time when people in the Pentagon are deeply concerned about this, would be more visible.”
“He [Caine] spoke over the weekend to the chairman of the House and Senate Armed Services Committee, and went through, in a classified way, details that they wanted to know about, about these operations in the Caribbean,” he reported.
“But this is a time when we're really looking for the person who represents our military to be present, to, in a sense, offset or counterbalance the Secretary of Defense. And so it would be a good time to see more of General Caine. But the fact that he's been so absent has been noted to me by several senior military officials in the last 24 hours.”
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