Defense Sec. Hegseth calls for a Overhaul of His Departments Lawyers

Hegseth’s activist Defense Dept. actions has kept the lawyers busy and conflicted….

Hegseth has fired some of those from the previous admin and has had some detailed to immigration actions…

On top of those things?

Hegseth IS moving on in his ‘Crusade to be the Warrior Secretary’

That HAS HAD him ‘bend’ somethings on the legal side?

One might think he’s looking for true believers in lawyers?

 

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday announced a “ruthless” overhaul of the military’s legal offices.

“For too long, over 20 years, legal shops across the services have grown bloated, duplicative, they’ve muddied lines of authority and pulled critical judge advocates away from what matters most — advising commanders in the fight on operations in deployed environments where seconds and minutes count,” Hegseth said in a video posted to social media.

He said he had directed the service secretaries, through their general counsels, judge advocate generals (JAGs) and the staff judge advocate to the commandant “to execute a ruthless, no-excuses review.”

“Scrub it clean, cut duplication and bureaucracy, clarify roles and reporting. No more moral ambiguity,” according to Hegseth.

He characterized the changes as a remedy to military lawyers sometimes being stuck doing civilian side work.

“That drains readiness and leaves gaps where we can’t afford to have them,” he said.

The push to reorder the “current allocation of legal resources and functions” of the Defense Department’s uniformed and civilian lawyers comes amid the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran and ongoing strikes on suspected drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean — both of which have been decried as illegal operations by Democrat lawmakers and some legal experts.

The United States also has reportedly been found responsible for a deadly Feb. 28 Tomahawk missile strike on an all-girls Iranian elementary school due to a targeting error by the U.S. military. The strike killed at least 175 people, most of them children. The investigation is ongoing.

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But the recent changes have raised concerns that Hegseth is gutting legal oversight of the administration’s actions, reducing accountability by seeking to cut those seen as disloyal to the president or his agenda and by separating the duties for uniformed and civilian lawyers within the Pentagon — reducing civilian oversight in times of conflict….

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