[A]fter all the noise, we are left with the same conclusion: there is no there, there. No legal order actually at issue. No sedition. No Article 88 violation. No singular statement that can be traced to Senator Kelly as a standalone call for misconduct. Just a spliced, multi-voice video and a sprawling overreaction.
The Pentagon would do well to step out of this self-created fog and return its focus to matters that actually threaten the country. Because this is not one of them. This is, once again, much ado about nothing – the latest entry in a growing catalog of Pentagon follies that never should have escaped the cutting room floor.
Except for the suggestion that this is much ado about nothing, it's hard to disagree. But the implications of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's vendetta again Sen. Kelly are far from nothing. The implications for free speech, whether by senators or retirees, are grave.
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