Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The sloppy and possibly illegal handling of sensitive information is a good reason for Hegseth to be fired, but that is just a symptom of the incompetent, slapdash way that is running the department. Hegseth doesn’t know what he’s doing, and he falls back on his cartoonish obsession with ‘lethality’ to try to distract from his inpetitude. His brief tenure has been marked by chaos and dysfunction, and that comes as no surprise when we recall that he had no qualifications to run a government department of this size and complexity. … One reason why he seems to be so obsessed with firing advisers to plug leaks is that so many of the leaks expose how bad he is at doing his job.” (04/22/25)