If you ever come back, give us some insight how Hegs will get us out of Iran with a W
Jeffries on impeachment: "I am a hard yes on the Hegseth resolution"
^ I'd be stunned otherwise
commies at Reason weigh in
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/11/08...-pete-hegseth/On September 15, Rep. Massie outlined eight articles of impeachment against Hegseth (see here for his more detailed description). The two most compelling are these:
Article I - Waging War in Contravention of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 Section 2(c): Charges Secretary Hegseth with waging the Iran war despite no declaration of war, statutory authorization, attack on the United States, or imminent threat. It establishes that the war was unlawful from its inception….
Article V - Extrajudicial Killings: Charges Secretary Hegseth with replacing maritime law enforcement with unauthorized lethal military targeting of suspected drug traffickers, resulting in at least 221 deaths. It also addresses denial of quarter, secondary strikes on survivors, failure to rescue shipwrecked persons, and the creation of artificial legal authorities for the campaign.
I have previously written about why these strikes are illegal (see here and here). But don't take my word for it, or even that of other libertarian or left-liberal experts, like Brian Finucane. Take that of John Yoo, former Bush Administration official, and leading academic advocate of sweeping executive power over foreign policy and national security issues. If you illegally order the deliberate killing of civilians - especially outside the context of a war - that's outright murder. And that's exactly what Pete Hegseth has done.
This would be true even if those killed were all would-be drug dealers seeking to transport illegal drugs for sale in the US. I have previously explained why it is unjust and illegal to kill suspected drug dealers out of hand and why they are not the legal or moral equivalent of terrorists or enemy combatants in a war. As GOP Sen. Rand Paul pointed outwhen the drug boat strikes began, "The reason we have trials and we don't automatically assume guilt is what if we make a mistake and they happen to be people fleeing the Venezuelan dictator? … off our coast it isn't our policy just to blow people up … even the worst people in our country, they still get a trial." But, in fact, the evidence indicates most were not on their way to the US and many were not transporting drugs at all. Some, for example, were just fishermen.
The Cons ution allows impeachment and removal of executive branch officials for "high crimes and misdemeanors." You don't have to be a lawyer or legal scholar to figure out that complicity in over 200 murders qualifies as a "high crime."
incalculable damage to armed forces command based on Kriegsminister Pete's bespoke political criteria but also animus against women and black soldiers -- Hegseth has been resegregating US armed forces and freezing women out of high command
https://www.ms.now/news/pete-hegseth...ers-promotionsDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth short-circuited a merit-based process for promoting senior officers and instead relied on newly invented criteria that disproportionately removed from advancement women and people of color who had already been approved for promotion, according to three military officials.
MS NOW spoke exclusively to a senior official with in-depth knowledge of flag and general officer selection and assignment who described in detail for the first time how, he said, the results of internet searches were used by Hegseth’s office to withhold promotions from women and people of color. He was granted anonymity for fear of retaliation.
The senior official also described how Hegseth intentionally scuttled the promotions of senior officers who were perceived to support diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives; played a role in implementing the Pentagon’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate; were involved in the evacuation from Afghanistan; or had a connection to former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Mark A. Milley, who served as President Donald Trump’s senior military officer but after retirement publicly criticized Trump’s leadership.
“I was like ‘you gotta be kidding me’, but of course we need people to get confirmed. We need nominations to go through. We need decisions made,” the senior official said.
The senior official’s account of the application of new criteria was confirmed by two of the officers who were selected for promotion by a rigorous merit-based process to a flag or general officer rank, but then withheld by Hegseth’s office. Those officers were told by Pentagon officials over the phone their promotions were being withheld, but they were not given a chance to respond, they said. For most, not getting promoted will end their military careers. If these officers do not promote to the rank they were selected for within 18 months, most will be forced to retire. The result has been a precipitous loss of experience and talent at the top ranks, the official said.
The senior official described to MS NOW how Hegseth’s executive office led a planned and deliberate process that involved creating paper-only files filled with printouts from internet searches that were inaccessible to the officers under consideration. Hegseth’s office gave instructions about the new criteria over the phone instead of in writing.
That meant brushing aside highly decorated officers with decades of experience leading carrier strike groups, thousands of flight hours on dozens of different aircraft, multiple joint assignments inside the Pentagon and shore and sea duty locations around the world. Some had multiple advanced degrees from schools like MIT and Johns Hopkins, and others had deployed in support of several conflicts like the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and Operation Inherent Resolve against ISIS.
But those same officers had findings from the internet searches that disqualified them based on Hegseth’s criteria. The senior official described to MS NOW what was in the paper files for more than a dozen of the senior officers whose promotions were withheld. Some of the findings put into the paper-only files included officers who allowed a celebration that included rainbow flags, a Pride Month event and stood up a diversity committee and task force on the USS Kearsarge to combat discrimination.
Other examples among the officers included: served as a diversity liaison officer early in their career, disciplined an officer in their command who refused to take the Covid vaccine, spoke at a National Hispanic American Heritage Month celebration aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, participated in a Minority Aviation Panel at the Naval Academy, spoke about the importance of taking Covid vaccines, participated in AFRICOM’s International Women’s Day panel, made a statement about being a “champion for inclusion,” participated in a discussion with the African American Employee Resource Group, took a photo with the command triad after their second Covid vaccination on the USS Carl Vinson, made statements encouraging sailors to get Covid vaccines, wrote an article about diversity in a publication and was quoted in an article talking about the importance of diversity.
The way that Hegseth’s office intervened may have also broken the law, said the three senior officials. Cody Harnish, military defense attorney and former Army judge advocate general, said the way that officers were pulled from the promotion list after being selected “is illegal.”
By law, Harnish said, the defense secretary can only remove names from promotion lists below the one-star level. A defense secretary can only delay or withhold a promotion for specific reasons, such as being professionally unqualified, failing “exemplary conduct” standards, pending charges or substantiated adverse information. According to the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act governing military promotions, the officer facing a delayed promotion gets written notice and a chance to respond.
“If ‘professionally unqualified’ can mean ‘executed a lawful program the current Secretary opposes,’ the promotion system and law has no function left,” Harnish said.
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^^^DOD smells blood
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/br...on-in-congressFacing an expected impeachment resolution in Congress, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he’s eager to litigate the policy choices that he and President Donald Trump have made in Iran and Venezuela.
nice reference
Would pay to see a bench press compe ion between the two.
I don't think there's any doubt the gay novelist would win
Would pay to see a bench press compe ion between the two.
Why can't we have fun weirdos like that who just get someone to cut their heads off after they're humiliated?
Kreigsminister Pete seems to consider his disastrous tenure as a stepping stone for a presidential run
Massie's Articles of Impeachment dropped today
https://massie.house.gov/uploadedfil...mpeachment.pdf
Massie: "I hope Hegseth addresses the 8 articles of impeachment, and doesn‘t get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and call everybody fat and gay. I may have just given you half his speech, I don't know."
"There's no fog of war on the first day! You've had months to identify these targets, yet they picked a school building on a school day with kids in it"
it's interesting that Massie alleged not just impeachable stuff, but violations of US law
like the war with Iran Pete lost in record time?
great news
this is even better, it can be revived in January with Dem majorities
House Republicans just voted to refer an effort to impeach Pete Hegseth to committee, effectively killing it.
impeachment is a privileged resolution, members can bring it up again and again
GOP not only covered itself with shame, it handed impeachment and trial to the incoming Dem majorities
Rep. Thomas Massie: "My analogy here is the anic hit the iceberg on Nov. 3 and I offered people a life raft, and they said, 'No thanks, we'll stick with the anic.'"
^ that analogy is pretty spot on. Unbelievable to me how many Republicans are still all in with team Trump. Crazy.
The Trump voters don't know anything else but Dear Leader and the lawmakers are too afraid of those voters to go against Dear Leader.
JV Vance and DeSantis are taking the baby steps toward the full de-Stalinization that is going to have to happen when Dear Leader dies-- but they'll have to deal with Dear Leader Jr. and whoever else takes up the orange mantle with the attached remaining cult followers.
I seriously think some Trump die-hard is going to try to kill whatever Anti-Trump Republican who comes to the fore.
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