Controversial Hegseth chief of staff to leave Pentagon

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Source: Politico

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s controversial chief of staff, who played a central role in a power struggle that gripped the Pentagon, will exit the agency today.

Joe Kasper was originally expected to transition to another role within the Defense Department, but is now planning to go back to government relations and consulting, he said in an interview.

He will continue to support and advise the Pentagon, he said, but as a special government employee. This will limit him to performing temporary jobs for just 130 days a year.

A former longtime chief of staff to indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter, Kasper was a leading figure in the firings of senior adviser Dan Caldwell, Hegseth deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg. The trio were ousted last week in a leak investigation.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/hegseth-chief-of-staff-pentagon-leaving-00308721

[Prairie Gates]

1. "a special government employee"

Oh, jeez, they're going to make everybody "special government employees," aren't they? Abolish this shit today!

[BoRaGard]

2. Did this order come from the G.O.P. Draft-Dodger-and-Golfer-in-Chief?

Asking for all the honorable human beings who have served our nation by supporting and defending The Constitution, rather than some wacko tyrant with intimate ties to America's enemies.