Something stinks inside the Pentagon

Three close allies of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — each with years of experience and long working relationships with Hegseth himself — were abruptly and unceremoniously fired. Pentagon officials accused them of leaking to the press, but the story doesn’t track.

The deep state theory doesn’t hold. The turf war theory feels incomplete. And the leak theory has holes you could drive a troop carrier through.

Senior adviser Dan Caldwell, Deputy Chief of Staff Darin Selnick, and Colin Carroll, chief of staff to the deputy secretary, all lost their jobs and were escorted out of the building within days of each other. All three held high-level positions. All three stood firmly in Hegseth’s corner.

Then, on Tuesday morning, Hegseth returned to familiar ground

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