All posts tagged "Department Of Defense"

Some soldiers are already seeking to escape an event Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plans to put on full public display.

At least six service members plan to seek religious exemptions to stay off the firing squad that will execute Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, an execution Hegseth has promised to livestream, the head of a military religious liberty group told The Washington Sun for an article on Friday.

Hasan killed 13 people in a 2009 mass shooting at the Texas base. An order signed Monday by Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle set his execution for December 3....

The Pentagon's billionaire second-in-command has sent a fortune in taxpayer money to a company that's tied to his old business.

Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg's department has paid $300 million to Alvarez & Marsal, a corporate turnaround consultancy and longtime partner of Cerberus Capital Management, the private equity firm Feinberg co-founded and ran, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

The payments, which come on top of work already done by government employees, were described in documents reviewed by The Journal and by people familiar with the matter. They are part of Feinberg's sweeping push to overhaul how the military builds and buys weapons....

The Pentagon revealed exactly how the public will be able to witness an upcoming military execution, and critics were horrified.

The Defense Department said in a statement on Thursday that the December 3 firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in a 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, will be livestreamed, The Washington Post reported.

The announcement came hours after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an interview with Jack Posobiec on Real America's Voice that he wanted people to be able to watch Hasan's death....

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered a message to armed services members in blue cities that's prompting outcry about bringing politics into his role.

On Friday, Hegseth posted a video to his official Secretary of War X account with the headline, "TO OUR WARRIORS—MAKE SURE TO VOTE!" However, online critics pointed out that the defense secretary shouldn't be involved in political activities per the Hatch Act and noticed the language Hegseth used.

Headquarters, a popular news account on X, described Hegseth as delivering a "thinly veiled campaign message to US service members, ordering them to vote in the midterms to overwhelm blue cities like Milwaukee and Detroit" and highlighted that he signed off by saying, "Keep our nation the land of the free!"...

Anonymous insiders told The Washington Post that the Pentagon scrubbed decades of classified documents following a story about senior military officials' warnings about Iran.

In a Wednesday article, The Post revealed that the Pentagon pulled decades' worth of classified documents from a secret computer system that is commonly used by defense officials and U.S. troops. Insiders tipped The Post off following a story on Sunday about several top generals and admirals cautioning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about the risks of extending a war with Iran.

The documents were removed from the internal web portal on the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet), according to three anonymous insiders who spoke to The Post. SIPRNet contains information that is labeled 'secret,' while top-secret information is put on other highly classified networks where fewer people have access, according to The Post....

A reporter said she was fired by the Department of Defense for saying she works for Stars and Stripes, not the Pentagon.

In a Friday post on X, journalist Lara Korte, who covered the Middle East for the Stars and Stripes, announced her firing and denounced the Pentagon's treatment of the military paper, which has faced increasing pressure from the Trump administration's DoD.

"Today, I was informed that the Department of Defense is firing me for insubordination," Korte wrote. "I told a CBS reporter that I work for Stars and Stripes – not the Pentagon, not any administration, and not any policy maker."...