Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned early last week at one of the busiest moments for the service since the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Army secretary who repeatedly warned White House about Hegseth is the one who resigns.
As it ran on the front
OBITUARY: The practice of the White House actually listening when its own Army Secretary raises a warning, no fixed age, died this week in Washington.
The practice was born sometime before anyone started keeping count of how many times Army Secretary Dan Driscoll went to the White House to flag concerns about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — sources say it was frequent, the exact number lost, as these things usually are, to the same institutional shrug that eventually killed it.…
…(cont) It is survived by the warnings themselves, still sitting in whatever inbox they landed in; by the sources who confirmed they happened; and by every future Army Secretary who will now know exactly what happens to the ones who speak up.
It was preceded in death by several other quiet Pentagon norms this reporter won't list here for space, on the theory that the reader has seen enough obituaries from this department already.
Driscoll is resigning. He is not being fired, not being investigated, not accused of anything — he is simply leaving, on his own schedule, shortly after it became known he'd spent months trying to get somebody upstairs to take his warnings seriously. Hegseth remains. That is not an accusation. That is just the org chart, as of this printing.
This is not, this reporter should say plainly, a story about one man losing an argument with another man. It's a story about what an internal check is for, and what happens to it when the person doing the checking runs out of road before the thing he's checking does. That's not a scandal. It's just how the furniture gets rearranged when nobody's forcing anybody to sit still.
Some malarkey doesn't even bother pretending anymore — it just resigns quietly and lets the reader do the arithmetic. It is, this reporter will admit once, a bit of a shit way to run a department that moves soldiers around the planet for a living. It won't be the last one either.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you find out who your own agency's internal check is, and how long they've got left in that job.
“The guy whose job was to say something is the one who's gone, and the guy he warned everybody about is still sitting at his desk. That's not an accident, that's the whole design working exactly as intended.”
“Personnel changes happen at every level of government constantly, this is not — look, is there a memo? There's no memo I've seen. If there's no memo I've seen then there's no story, that's just how — okay, there's apparently a memo.”
The receipts
U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submitted his resignation Monday after months of friction with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. CBS News' Eleanor Watson has more.
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