The Pentagon Kendall calls 'dysfunctional' is the same one hiding its leak probe from Congress.

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Frank Kendall ran the Air Force under two presidents, which means he spent enough years inside that building to know what normal looks like. So when he goes on "This Week" and asks, flatly, what advice led the president into the Iran war, it lands less like an opinion and more like a man checking the paperwork. That's Sunday morning. Go back three days and you find him telling CNN the Defense Department under Pete Hegseth is "dysfunctional." Same source, same building, same week — the diagnosis just keeps getting sharper. By the time Martha Raddatz gets him back on air, he's not hedging anymore: he "couldn't serve" in this administration, he says, and in the same breath he tells her he's never seen an attempt to politicize the military like the one Hegseth is running. That's a former secretary of the Air Force, not a pundit, saying that with his name attached.

Somewhere in that same stretch of days, the Army lost its own secretary — Dan Driscoll resigned earlier in the week, and by Thursday Trump had named Adam Telle, an assistant secretary for civil works, as the acting replacement. The wire doesn't say why Driscoll left or say the switch happened same-day; it just says the chair emptied and then it didn't stay empty long. Read next to Kendall's word, it's a data point, not a punchline: leadership moving through that building faster than anyone outside it can track.…