by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
The Trump administration's proclivity for trying to hide how the government functions seems to be getting worse. Pious Pete Hegseth, God's patriotic, white, English-speaking, man at the Department of Defense, has been on a bender of late trying to instill a sense of discipline in his senior officers and plug as many press leaks as he can.
A couple of weeks ago Hegseth summoned more than 800 US generals and admirals from around the globe to report to a Marine Corps base in Virginia for what some of the participants later said could have been handled "in an email." While he had his captive, "all-star" audience packed tightly into auditorium seating, the highly-tattooed, celebrity apprentice in charge of the US military harangued our nation's real military leaders with concerns about discipline, grooming, and physical appearance, making it clear that he did not want to see overweight members of the military, including senior officers, walking the halls of the Pentagon.
Harsh stuff, Pete. Sort of like what a junior high coach would lay on his team just before the big game, though not as well thought out.
After Pete's show was over, Donald Trump, a.k.a. the Commander in Chief, came to the podium and delivered one of his long, rambling, incoherent diatribes.
Those who thought they had been summoned back to the states for top-level discussions about some impending military crisis or a profound policy change were, no doubt, sorely disappointed.
Several days ago Pious Pete turned his attention to the press and announced that in order to keep their press credentials active with the Pentagon, reporters would have to sign a pledge that severely limits their ability to gather information about the military. The new policy "suggests" that attempts to gather information which has not been approved for release can be regarded as a security risk. It also requires reporters to have military escorts in many areas of the Pentagon including those that are deemed unclassified. Most responsible news organizations, even Fox, chose to give the Defense Secretary the one-finger-salute-response by refusing to sign his pledge.
Reporters aren't doing their job if all they do is regurgitate press releases. When that happens the real news remains hidden, denying the public their right to know what is actually occurring within the dark and dank halls of government.
This week Hegseth tried to strengthen the wall of secrecy that he is building around our nation's military. He issued a directive that mandates all Pentagon personnel to seek approval before they communicate with elected officials or staff members on Capitol Hill. (The Inspector General's office is exempt from this latest dictum.) The new policy appears to include all Pentagon officials, even the Chief of Staff. If one of Pete's subordinates is going anywhere near Congress, he wants to know about it in advance, and it looks as though he wants tight control over hat Congress knows about his operation.
In related news, the Trump administration is now forbidding anyone to take pictures of the destruction occurring to the East Wing of the White House. Too late, Donnie Darko. The photos of piles of rubble resembling those found in the streets of Gaza are already out there. There are pictures all over the internet of excavators in action knocking a hole in the East Wing that is already big enough to parallel park a five-ton military transport truck - if it could get over the rubble. The word now is that the entire East Wing will be destroyed by this weekend - that's tomorrow! Your desecration of the People's House has been memorialized by what remains of our free press. May America never forget this attack on our glorious past by someone too shallow and vain to understand what he is destroying.
If you want to keep secrets in DC, Donnie, may I respectfully suggest hopping in your personal fighter jet, taking off into the wild blue yonder with blasting Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone" blasting in the background, and dumping and a buttload of excrement and Trump/MAGA merchandise on them. Maybe no one would dig through all that shit to find out what's really going on - but I doubt it. The free press rules!
And speaking of secrets: RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW!
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