BREAKING: An Indian official said three Indian mariners were killed on board a tanker targeted by the U.S. military over allegedly violating America’s blockade on Iran. https://t.co/lz32JAPKKE
It’s an open secret throughout the Pentagon that survivability often depends on making as little noise as possible and avoiding drawing the attention of Hegseth and his office, multiple officials said.
“Everything we did on a daily basis, we were calculating, ‘Is this going to keep the boss employed, or is this going to get him fired?’” a Pentagon official told CNN. “Every single day, every decision that we made, that was a planning factor. … It’s very unusual for that to be considered so heavily.”
https://t.co/8scA1rAERd
Grand juror pressed the prosecutor on whether there are "any new actual facts" on the second attempt:
"I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is."
New: On April 1, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George requested an in-person meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — an effort to calm months of tension between Hegseth and senior Army leaders, three officials said.
The meeting never came. The next day, he was fired in the middle of a meeting with Army staff.
“The staff proceeded to, one by one, either go and give him a handshake or a hug,” a Pentagon official recalled. By the next morning, George’s office had been emptied.
Inside Hegseth’s Pentagon, where distrust and suspicions of loyalty are rampant
https://t.co/8scA1rAERd
“The administration had embarked on a new kind of fishing expedition — not for dirt on the people they did not like, but to find a prosecutor willing to file charges based on the threadbare evidence they already had.”
https://t.co/QRYfgCtpLV via @DevlinBarrett
Via @JDiamond1: A US official denied Israel’s claim that the US intercepted Iranian ballistic missiles that were fired at Israel.
The official told CNN that the US military didn’t intercept any of the Iranian missiles fired overnight, a notable shift from previous rounds of conflict with Iran when the US expended significant quantities of its own missile interceptors to shoot down Iranian missiles aimed at Israel.
The denial contradicted an assertion earlier Monday by an Israeli military official who said the US assisted Israel’s air defense efforts, including by intercepting some of the Iranian missiles. https://t.co/WapZFSHrsM
The world’s richest men “have clearly left the world of consequences behind,” Noah Hawley writes. “Their actions are only ever judged by themselves.” Here’s what Hawley learned about the ultra-wealthy at Jeff Bezos’s Campfire retreat: https://t.co/2TkOS6RrRC
New: The Washington Post reconstructed journalist Amal Khalil’s final hours in Lebanon found that Israel’s military denied rescuers access to her during a key period when she was still alive.
w/ @suzanHaidamous, @mmkelly22, and @MohamdEch
https://t.co/ar48t6g4ei
Over the last 24 hours:
1. IDF soldier shot an killed a 7 months old Palestinian baby in Hebron
2. IDF kills a senior Lebanese military officer and two other Lebanese soldiers in an air strike in southern Lebanon
3. Israeli Settlers aided by at least one IDF soldier (see video) conduct a Pogrom in the Palestinian village of Huwara. 9 Palestinians wounded
SCOOP with @nakashimae and @kemettler: CIA officer created a fake SAP - Special Access Program - that resulted in gold trove, people familiar with the investigation say
https://t.co/HsjSOFkTKg
President Trump just repeated his lie that China only builds windmills to export them to "stupid people from the United States, the suckers."
Reality: China has installed by far the most wind turbines of any country and is installing more of them far faster than any other country.
Exclusive video obtained by CNN shows extensive damage on the USS Gerald Ford, after the ship's fire control system failed, sources say. One sailor told CNN that it was "either fight or die" during the battle to stop the fire. @BrianToddCNN and team report
https://t.co/NF32JJAHUe
Trump's attempt to destroy the Presidential Records Act: just another crooked scheme to convert public assets to private wealth. My latest in @TheAtlantic https://t.co/z2L6aUkQiV
When I was a reporter at the @postandcourier, I covered Elias Irizarry case. He was a cadet at the Citadel, and was kicked out of the senior military college’s Republican Society post-Jan. 6.
When I called him for comment, he gave the phone to his mom.
https://t.co/EhCYfJ62Tt
Congressional statute:
"There is a Director of National Intelligence who shall be appointed by the President ... Any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise."
50 U.S. Code § 3023
Feb. 10: Trump portfolio buys between $1 million and $5 million in stock in Dell.
Feb. 19: Trump at rally encourages supporters to "buy a Dell computer."
May 27: Pentagon awards $9.7 billion contract to Dell.
@maeganvaz https://t.co/f1HqeHqqtV
ICE allows mother it deported without her toddler to return for his burial
Absolutely, crushingly sad reporting by @mariasacchetti
https://t.co/CkUJXocX42
NYT Exclusive:
The contractor given a no-bid contract to repair the Reflecting Pool is being paid an inflated and excessive profit margin.
The typical margin of federal construction contracts is 6-12%. But the firm fixing the pool submitted a bid that charged 20% — adding at least $850,000 to what a more typical contract would have cost. https://t.co/e26Xq7K7qd