Tulsi Gabbard to Fire 100+ NSA Staffers Who Took Part in Hair-Raising Online Sex Chats

Let the fumigation begin.

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What the Trump administration has uncovered in just five weeks about what has been going on in Washington is beyond belief. What has been happening in the National Security Agency, however, goes beyond anything that has been found (at least so far) to show leftist elitists’ self-absorption and contempt for the American taxpayer. It’s not the waste and fraud that DOGE has been uncovering. It’s much worse.

City Journal revealed Monday that although “the ‘intelligence community’ is one of the most powerful parts of the American national security apparatus,” some of those entrusted with the solemn responsibility of keeping the nation safe “have another on-the-job priority: sex chats.”

That’s right: we’re paying these people to protect the nation from threats, and they’re spending their time on our dime talking about their various lurid obsessions, delusions, deviances, and perversions. And those words are far too polite for some of what they were doing.

The bacchanalia took place on the NSA’s messaging program, Intelink. That in itself was a violation of regulations, for an NSA staffer explained that “all NSA employees sign agreements stating that publishing non-mission related material on Intelink is a usage violation and will result in disciplinary action.” Yet for at least the last two years, NSA employees have turned Intelink into Smutlink, swamping it with talk of “sex, kink, polyamory, and castration,” and there is no indication that anyone faced any disciplinary action for breaking the rules about how Intelink was supposed to be used.

The Biden regime doesn’t consider such talk to be “non-mission related.” After all, with pride flags hanging from U.S. embassies worldwide, and billions spent to push transgender madness around the globe, it’s clear that libertinism and a rejection of traditional morality is a key element of the Biden regime’s agenda. The NSA’s online orgies were part of that. City Journal notes that “the sex chats were legitimized as part of the NSA’s commitment to ‘diversity, equity and inclusion.’ Activists within the agency used LGBTQ+ ‘employee resource groups’ to turn their kinks and pathologies into official work duties.”

These were not quite G-rated conversations: the discussions often “became explicit.” One NSA insider “claimed to have witnessed hundreds of sexually provocative discussions, which, he added, occurred mostly on taxpayer time. A former NSA source who was familiar with the chats recalled being ‘disgusted’ by a particularly shocking thread discussing weekend ‘gangbangs.’”

It gets worse, of course. In these chats, “one popular chat topic was male-to-female transgender surgery.” People who were supposed to be intelligence professionals also whiled away their work hours discussing “hair removal, estrogen injections, and the experience of sexual pleasure post-castration.” Others went in for discussions of polyamory, or, as they delicately put it, “ethical non-monogamy.” Some intelligence officials “spent all day” in meetings discussing topics such as “Privilege,” “Pride,” and “Transgender Community Inclusion.” One NSA officer insisted on being referred to as “it,” rather than “he” or “she.”

The good news is that it is about to lose its job. On Monday evening, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard wrote:

“This behavior is unacceptable and those involved WILL be held accountable. These disgusting chat groups were immediately shut down when @POTUS issued his EO ending the DEI insanity the Biden Admin was obsessed with. Our IC must remain focused on our core mission: ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people.”

And ABC News reported Wednesday that “more than 100 intelligence community employees will be terminated and have their security clearances revoked as the intelligence community investigates group chats that allegedly discussed explicit behavior, officials said.” By then, the process had already been set in motion; on Tuesday, Gabbard’s Deputy Chief of Staff Alexa Henning said: “The DNI sent a memo directing all intelligence agencies to identify the employees who participated in the NSA’s ‘obscene, pornographic, and sexually explicit’ chatrooms and to terminate their employment and revoke their security clearances. Deadline: Friday.”

Gabbard also said: “There are over 100 people from across the intelligence community that contributed to and participated in this — what is really just an egregious violation of trust, what to speak of, like, basic rules and standards around professionalism.” She said that this housecleaning was part of the Trump administration’s efforts to “clean house, root out that rot and corruption and weaponization and politicization, so we can start to rebuild that trust in these institutions that are charged with an important mission of serving the American people, ensuring our safety, security and freedom.”

More than a housecleaning is needed. The NSA is going to need fumigation. And a thoroughgoing, all-encompassing overhaul so that the culture that gave rise to this sick madness is thoroughly rooted out and cannot return once the heat is off.

Trump fires chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign led by his defense secretary to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks.

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President Trump has just fired Air Force General CQ Brown as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Brown has been replaced by retired Lieutenant General Dan “Rasin’” Caine.

United Airlines Plane Evacuated After It Catches Fire On Runway

A United Airlines plane takes off as another taxis at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) following the Thanksgiving holiday on December 2, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Thanksgiving Sunday was the busiest day for commercial airline travel ever, with preliminary numbers indicating more than 3 million travelers were screened in U.S. airports yesterday with many people still making their way home today. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
A United Airlines plane takes off as another taxis at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) following the Thanksgiving holiday on December 2, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

OAN Staff Abril Elfi
1:48 PM – Sunday, February 2, 2025

A United States flight from Houston to New York had to be evacuated after it caught on fire during takeoff. 

On Sunday, United Airlines Flight 1382, an Airbus A320, was evacuated at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) in Houston, Texas, after an engine fire forced the crew to abort takeoff. 

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the plane was evacuated due to a “reported engine issue” just after 8:30 a.m.

Some passengers had to evacuate using emergency slides, while others exited through the jet bridge, according to the Houston Fire Department. 

Video footage taken by passengers shows them standing on the tarmac as emergency crews responded.

According to reports, there were 104 passengers and five crew members on board, though no injuries have been reported. 

The flight was rescheduled to take off at 12:30 p.m. local time. 

The FAA is now investigating the incident. 

This comes after a plane crashed near a mall in Philadelphia, which killed seven people and injured 19 others. 

The incident also follows after a major plane crash in the Washington, D.C., area — where an Army Black Hawk Helicopter collided with a commercial American Airlines plane, killing 67 people on board.

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Gavin Newsom’s DISGRACEFUL Response to Empty Fire Hydrants in Los Angeles

The wildfires around Los Angeles are a historic disaster. But why was California so unprepared? Glenn reviews one of the biggest issues that has allowed these fires to spread: fire hydrants have dried up. Governor Gavin Newsom, who loves big government, said this was a local issue. However, since then, he has started an investigation. But why, Glenn asks, did he initially try to avoid the blame? Glenn Beck reviews where California’s water situation came from: public-private partnerships between companies and unelected bureaucrats. “California, are you starting to understand?” Glenn says. “That’s why we say the Deep State is bad…no one is accountable.” So, will this tragedy be enough for Californians to wake up?

California Mayor Says State’s One-Party Rule Is To Blame For Homeowners Losing Fire Coverage

As Angelenos reel from this apocalyptic nightmare, there are reports that thousands of Los Angeles homeowners have been dropped by their insurance companies, forcing them into the state's FAIR (Fair Access to Insurance Requirements) plan, basic coverage in high-risk areas. One America's Stella Escobedo spoke to Bill Wells, the mayor of El Cajon, who blames the state's one-party rule for the problem.

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New Effort To Recall CA Governor Gavin Newsom

There is currently a recall effort underway for California's Governor Gavin Newsom amid the catastrophic fires. One America's Stella Escobedo spoke with one of the board members of the new recall effort, medical doctor and medical researcher Dr. Houman Hemmati.

California Fires Underscore Major Faults in Government Officials

The Golden State is battling devastating wildfires, showing obvious failures in Government Officials, and how the focus must shift back to the safety of the People of California. One America's Katie Smith spoke with Attorney and Host of the "What's Right Show", Sam Mirejovsky to discuss.

LA County wildfire coverage | 16 dead in fires

LA Mayor Has A Melt Down Over Fire Chief's Firing

ARSON SUSPECT ARRESTED!! Los Angeles. Palisades Fire.

Newsom Under Fire as Kamala Harris Loses Home in California Wildfires!

Wildfires tearing through Los Angeles County have obliterated thousands of structures, leaving devastation in their path. In the exclusive Pacific Palisades, where homes often exceed $3 million, the inferno has reportedly reached the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris, raising urgent questions: How could such a high-profile figure become a victim of this disaster? Could this tragedy have been prevented? As former President Donald Trump points fingers at Governor Gavin Newsom for the state’s wildfire response, the blame game intensifies. In the midst of this destruction, who should be held accountable - and what does this mean for California's future?

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The LAFD is Run by Three Lesbians Named ‘Kirsten’

The LA Fire Department went woke. Now LA is on fire.

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The most important thing to know about Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley is that she is the first LGBTQ fire chief in the history of the Los Angeles Fire Department.

It’s also the only thing worth knowing about the woman in charge while Los Angeles burned.

Crowley’s status as the first LGBTQ fire chief appears at the top of her bio on the LAFD site. It’s what got her on the Kelly Clarkson show under the headline, “Meet LAFD’s First Female & LGBTQ+ Fire Chief” and made her one of the marshals of the Los Angeles Pride Parade (some of whose attendees no longer have homes after the wave of fires.)

But DEI wasn’t done with the LAFD just yet. Not until two other lesbian Kirstens were also running the LAFD.

Kristina Kepner, the first lesbian Assistant Chief and a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School for Managing Diverse Organizations, was accused of a domestic violence incident involving her girlfriend. Kristine Larson, who has a degree in Sociology, headed ‘Equity on Fire’, an organization complaining that the LAFD was sexist and racist, and was then rewarded with the title of the LAFD’s first lesbian Equity Bureau Chief with a $399,000 salary.

Diversity mandates had led to three lesbians named some version of ‘Kirsten’ running the LAFD.

Meanwhile, Jamie Brown became the LAFD’s first lesbian Training Commander. Her accomplishment was being the only one of the four lesbians running the LAFD who wasn’t named ‘Kirsten’.

Many glass ceilings were being broken, but there was no one who knew how to fight fires. Unless it was by asking the fire about its preferred pronouns.

Crowley, Kepner, and Brown were all paramedics, not firefighters. Diversity mandates led to paramedics being referred to as ‘firefighters’ and being promoted to fire captains and battalion chiefs and then to the top echelons of the LAFD.

Paramedics who did not understand how to fight fires were running one of the biggest fire departments in the country.

Around this same time, Janisse Quinones was appointed to head the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, with a $750,000 salary that far exceeded her predecessor. The press release made sure to mention that she was the “first female Latina to lead LADWP as CEO.”

Between all the trailblazing lesbian fire chiefs and the first female Latina CEO, the LAFD couldn’t find the manpower to fight the fires on the first day of the firestorm or the water in the hydrants to put them out. Breaking glass ceilings is easy, but putting out fires is hard.

Kristin Crowley was picked to break glass ceilings, not to fight fires.

Even before the worst firestorms in over a decade hit, there were warnings that the DEI LAFD brass had wrecked one of the country’s greatest firefighting services. The I-10 fire in 2023 spun out of control and the LAFD struggled to cope with what should have been an easy problem. In a Keystone Kops moment, Engine 17 got stuck under the overpass and was destroyed.

No one dared to point the finger at Crowley, a Harvard Business School graduate who earns $439,772 and was prone to reciting Kamalaisms like “I am different, but there’s a lot of difference everywhere in the world” and “we all our different, but that’s a strength of ours.”

Being different has become a major asset at the LAFD ever since it went DEI.

Crowley succeeded Chief Ralph Terrazas, hailed as the first Latino chief who replaced Chief Douglas Barry, the first black chief, and in the ordinary way of things, Crowley will be replaced by the first transgender fire chief who will then have to be replaced by someone even more diverse. Assuming that there is still a Los Angeles to pay them/it/them a six-figure salary.

None of this has much to do with fighting fires, but very little in LA government has to do with anything except “breaking barriers” and triumphing over obstacles like basic competence.

After complaints that the first Latino fire chief tolerated sexism, he had to be replaced by a woman. Kirstin Crowley came to work committed to being the best at rooting out sexism.

After her appointment, Fire Chief Crowley vowed to prioritize a “work environment that is free of harassment, discrimination and hazing” and promised to build a new era for the LAFD through “the creation of systemic equity and inclusion across the LAFD.”

Systemic equity and inclusion doesn’t put out fires. Not unless you drop DEI consultants on them. But the LAFD leadership was too busy with DEI to deal with minor matters like fires.

In 2022, the LAFD under Crowley announced its first Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Bureau. It bragged that 70% of the applicants to the department were minorities and 8% were women. Rather than hiring the best, the LAFD was laboriously working to fill diversity quotas.

Mayor Eric Garcetti had promised to bring the number of women up to 5% from 3.5% and now the LAFD is approaching 8%. No one was allowed to ask if this was going to make the LAFD any better at fighting fires now that it was hiring in order to hit a diversity target.

Beyond DEI, every stupid woke idea found a home under Crowley’s regime. After taking over, Crowley debuted the first “electric fire engine” to fight “pollution”, instead it was sidelined by a water leak. The vaccine mandate ousted some firefighters and suspended others. Last year, with a shortage of firefighters, the LAFD began trying to bring some of them back.

Los Angeles and the LAFD fought the Firefighters4Freedom Foundation group, which represented 500 members of the LAFD. Now the LAFD has been reduced to begging for volunteers with firefighting experience. The DEI LAFD seems to be a whole lot more diverse, but also a lot less competent at deploying manpower than the old organization used to be.

While the LAFD might have lost a whole lot white men who knew how to fight fires, it gained a lot of DEI hires who knew how to pursue diversity, inclusion and all the pronoun stuff.

And while LA might have lost a lot of buildings, it gained a lot of lesbian fire chiefs.

Glenn Beck: LA Mayor’s Ties to VIOLENT RADICALS Exposed After California Fires

Many liberal Californians, including Hollywood elites, are turning on Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass after she stayed in Ghana instead of immediately heading home once wildfires destroyed the Palisades. But should the people of Los Angeles be surprised? Glenn reviews Mayor Bass’ radical history, as laid out in a short documentary by Errol Weber. She visited Cuba multiple times during the reign of Fidel Castro as part of the Venceremos Brigade, a Marxist training program that taught insurgency and guerilla warfare. She praised Castro, even after he died. Her government has defunded firefighters to fund NGOs. "Once again," Glenn says, "who you vote for matters."

The BIGGEST LESSON From the California Wildfires

The California wildfires that have ripped through the Palisades and other parts of the Los Angeles area have been unbelievably devastating. Many have lost their homes, including famous celebrities. But was this tragedy avoidable? While Glenn doesn’t want to make this about politics, he says we must note that “California has been playing with fire, literally, for a long time.” The state has neglected its forests for decades thanks to bureaucracy, politics, and “eggheads” from the cities. Glenn also explains how the region’s water infrastructure has also been neglected, which has led to fire hydrants running dry. Finally, Glenn addresses what is likely the biggest lesson for California: “How you vote matters.”

Elon Musk To Provide Free Starlink Cell Service To L.A. Residents Affected By Fires

ALTADENA, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 08: A person walks past a home burning during the Eaton Fire on January 8, 2025 in Altadena, California. Over 1,000 structures have burned, with two people dead, in wildfires fueled by intense Santa Ana Winds across L.A. County. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
A person walks past a home burning during the Eaton Fire on January 8, 2025 in Altadena, California. Over 1,000 structures have burned, with two people dead, in wildfires fueled by intense Santa Ana Winds across L.A. County. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

OAN Staff Blake Wolf
12:29 PM – Thursday, January 9, 2025

As multiple roaring fires across Los Angeles County destroy thousands of homes, buildings, and other structures, cell service has dropped out across large swaths of the city, prompting Elon Musk to provide free Starlink cell service to residents in need.

At least five individuals have now died, stemming from the fires becoming intensified by the strong Santa Ana winds, and nearly 180,000 individuals have also been placed under evacuation orders.

The two largest fires, the Palisades fire and the Eaton fire, have so far resulted in at least 27,000 acres being consumed in the flames. Cell towers are now being destroyed, effectively killing phone service for individuals in disaster areas, prompting the SpaceX founder to step in.

Los Angeles residents without cell service who are attempting to reach friends and family will reportedly now be able to call whomever they wish, thanks to SpaceX owner and Trump-ally Elon Musk.

“SpaceX will provide free Starlink terminals to affected areas in LA tomorrow morning,” Musk announced in an X post.

Musk’s post was in response to a Fox 11 broadcast, which was only capable of providing a live feed due to his Starlink.

“The only reason you’re able to see us right now is because of Starlink. There’s absolutely no cell service at all in this whole area,” the reporter stated as a house burned to ashes behind her.

Musk’s Starlink system is also able to provide internet service, despite the lack of cell towers, by utilizing a “constellation” of thousands of satellites in Low-Earth Orbit.

Musk criticized the Democrat California governor for previously refusing to take preventative measures aimed at curbing wildfires, blaming California’s “nonsense regulations.”

“These fires are easily avoidable, but nonsensical regulations in California prevent action from being taken, so year after year homes burn down and more people die,” Musk wrote in an X post.

“My friend just texted me that his house burned down again. His old house also burned down in an uncontrolled wildfire several years ago. California could easily stop these massive wildfires, but refuses to put in fire breaks for bogus environmental reasons,” he added.

The Palisades fire, which has burned through nearly 27 square miles, is still 0% contained as of Thursday morning, according to Cal Fire.

The Eaton fire, which has claimed all five lives, also remains at 0% containment as of Thursday morning.

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Sean Hannity: This is beyond outrageous: FIRES IN HOLLYWOOD HILLS; NO WATER FOR FIREFIGHTERS~WASHED OUT TO PACIFIC OCEAN!

THIS IS CRAZY! California's Leaders Leave Firefighters Without Any Water!?

Laura Ingraham: Biden and Newsom should be ashamed of themselves

PBS NewsHour full episode, Jan. 8, 2025

Wednesday on the News Hour, Southern California firefighters struggle to control multiple raging wildfires fueled by high winds. The United States announces another aid package to Ukraine as the war grinds on. Plus, we speak with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about the outgoing Biden administration's efforts to improve the nation's infrastructure.

LA Mayor Karen Bass holds press briefing on California wildfires

 

5 Years After Tragic Fire, Notre Dame Cathedral Unveils Renewed Interior

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on November 29, 2024 shows the choir stalls of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on June 26, 2018 (TOP) and on November 29, 2024 (BOTTOM). The Notre-Dame Cathedral is set to re-open early December 2024, with a planned weekend of ceremonies on December 7 and 8, 2024, five years after the 2019 fire which ravaged the world heritage landmark and toppled its spire. Some 250 companies and hundreds of experts were mobilised for the five-year restoration costing hundreds of millions of euros. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN and STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / various sources / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARINSTEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on November 29, 2024 shows the choir stalls of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on June 26, 2018 (TOP) and on November 29, 2024 (BOTTOM). The Notre-Dame Cathedral is set to re-open early December 2024, with a planned weekend of ceremonies on December 7 and 8, 2024, five years after the 2019 fire which ravaged the world heritage landmark and toppled its spire. Some 250 companies and hundreds of experts were mobilised for the five-year restoration costing hundreds of millions of euros. (Photo by LUDOVIC MARINSTEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN Staff James Meyers
2:16 PM – Friday, November 29, 2024

The newly renovated interior of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France has been revealed for the first time since reconstruction began over five years ago.

The historic landmark opened its doors to French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, showcasing its brand new design that pays tribute to its original construction destroyed in the tragic 2019 mass fire.

President Macron and his wife, first lady Brigitte Macron, were shown around inside the Gothic cathedral ahead of its official reopening next month.

During the televised two-hour walkthrough, Macron appeared impressed by the light pouring into the nave after the cathedral’s windows were renewed and its white stones cleaned.

“This is overwhelming,” he said while taking an extensive tour alongside several government officials.

Additionally, Macron was also invited up on the roof to look at the new wooden beams, which had to be replaced after the fire had gutted the old ones.

The massive wood pieces came from all over France, and were repurposed from oak trees.

Macron was also seen shaking hands with many of the master craftsmen who had taken part in the restoration project.

In 2019, the globe watched in horror as a blaze tore through the 860-year-old masterpiece, reducing its roof to ashes, causing its central flame to collapse and toppling its soaring spire.

In the aftermath of the fire, donors, including billionaire French tycoons, pledged nearly $1 billion to restore the structure, according to restoration chief Philippe Jost.

The blaze was accidentally sparked under the cathedral’s roof, causing the church’s spire to crash down.

However, firefighters were ultimately able to save the building’s structural integrity and many treasured relics.

Meanwhile, the restoration project took over five years and included repairing the cathedral’s stained glass windows, roof and signature flying buttresses.

Furthermore, the cathedral’s spire and carved stone gargoyles have been restored to their past glory.

“It was an exceptional renovation project,” stone carver Samir Abbas said while awaiting Macron’s arrival.

Currently, the cathedral is empty inside, Notre Dame will eventually be filled with new, specially designed furniture before its reopening in December.

The cathedral still boasts three of its original windows unaffected by the fire. The windows all date back to the 13th-century.

The 14th-century statue Virgin and Child was also rescued from the fire and now sits in the newly restored masterpiece church.

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Report: Trump Team Focuses on Pentagon Officers to Fire

Members of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team are drawing up a list of military officers to be fired, potentially to include the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two sources said, in what would be an unprecedented shakeup at the Pentagon.

The planning for the firings is at an early stage after Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris and could change as Trump's administration takes shape, said the sources, who are familiar with the Trump transition and requested anonymity to speak candidly about the plans.

One of the sources questioned the feasibility of a mass firing at the Pentagon. It was also unknown if Trump would endorse the plan, although he has railed extensively against defense leaders who have criticized him. Trump also spoke during the campaign of firing "woke" generals and those responsible for the troubled 2021 pullout from Afghanistan.

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to request for comment.

A second source said the incoming administration would likely focus on U.S. military officers seen as connected to Mark Milley, Trump's former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Milley was quoted in the book "War" by Bob Woodward, which was published last month, calling Trump "fascist to the core" and Trump's allies have targeted him for perceived disloyalty to the former president.

"Every single person that was elevated and appointed by Milley will be gone," the second source said. "There's a very detailed list of everybody that was affiliated with Milley. And they will all be gone."

The Joint Chiefs of Staff include the highest-ranking officers in the U.S. military and comprise the heads of the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, National Guard and Space Force. The disclosure of plans to fire senior leaders of the U.S. armed forces comes a day after Trump picked as his defense secretary Pete Hegseth, a veteran and Fox News commentator who has signaled a willingness to clean house at the Pentagon.

"The next president of the United States needs to radically overhaul Pentagon senior leadership to make us ready to defend our nation and defeat our enemies. Lots of people need to be fired," Hegseth said in his 2024 book "The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free."

The first source familiar with the transition planning said Milley's successor, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, would be among the many officers to leave.

"The chiefs of the Joint Chiefs and all the vice chiefs will be fired immediately," the source said, before noting that this was still only early planning.

Some current and former U.S. officials have played down the possibility of such a major shakeup, saying it would be unnecessary and disruptive at a time of global turmoil with wars raging in Ukraine and the Middle East.

The first source said that it would be difficult bureaucratically to fire and replace a large swath of senior U.S. military officials, suggesting the planning could be bluster and posturing by Trump allies. But the second source suggested the Trump camp believed the Joint Chiefs of Staff needed to shrink because of perceived bureaucratic over-reach. Such cuts could be endured in an organization the scale of the U.S. military, the source said.

"These people are not irreplaceable. They are very replaceable. And then the other thing too is there is no shortage of people that will step up," the source said. "In World War II, we were very rapidly appointing people in their 30s or people competent to be generals. And you know what? We won the war."

Israel-Hamas war: Hezbollah terrorists fire heavy rockets at IDF | LiveNOW from FOX

The militant Hezbollah group downed an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon and fired heavy rockets at an Israeli military base. Hezbollah continues to target militants and civilian homes. Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Forces continue to push on Gaza's city of Rafah. Hezbollah fighters struck a Hermes 900 Kochav drone while firing along the Lebanon-Israel border. According to Israel war room, Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel on Sunday, with sirens sounding in northern Israel. Israeli Defense Forces fired at Hezbollah terror targets in southern Lebanon on Sunday. IDF warned civilians to remain in bomb shelters. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on X, 'Israel's conditions for ending the war have not changed: The destruction of Hamas' military and governing capabilities, the freeing of all hostages and ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel.'

4 Injured In Fire At Brooklyn Subway Station

Crime Down On New York's Subways
NEW YORK - JUNE 18: People wait for a train in a subway station June 18, 2003 in New York City. A new report by the New York Police Department (NYPD) reports that felonies are down 15 percent this year on New York's subways. The NYPD credits an increase in officers at subway stations for part of the drop in crime on trains and stations. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

OAN’s Abril Elfi
8:51 AM – Monday, December 25, 2023

SEE: https://www.oann.com/newsroom/4-injured-in-fire-at-brooklyn-subway-station/; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational & research purposes:

Four people have been injured as fire broke out in a Brooklyn, New York subway tracks.

On Sunday, at about 6:30 p.m., a fire broke out on the tracks, according to the Fire Department of New York, and firefighters were called to the High Street-Brooklyn Bridge station on the A and C lines.

The fire took approximately sixty minutes to contain.

Those who were hurt were transported to the hospital with minor wounds.

According to reports, a fire started beneath a train.

Although the cause is being looked into, it is thought to be connected to the trash on the tracks.

A/C trains were briefly rerouted onto the F line, according to a social media post from NYC Transit. However, service had returned, albeit with delays, just after 8 p.m.

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Italy: Muslim migrant sets church nativity scene on fire, causing immense damage and destroying 17th century organ

REPUBLISHED, SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/12/italy-muslim-migrant-sets-church-nativity-scene-on-fire-causing-immense-damage-and-destroying-17th-century-organ

Celebrate diversity! The new Europe is dawning, and what a beautiful sight it is!

“Parabiago, sets fire to the paper nativity scene in the church: the flames damage a 17th century organ, making the building unusable,” translated from “Parabiago, dà fuoco al presepe di carta nella chiesa: le fiamme danneggiano un organo del ‘600, edificio inagibile,” by Orlando Mastrillo, la Repubblica, December 15, 2023 (thanks to Medforth):

A column of black smoke was seen coming out of the entrance: the inhabitants’ attempts to limit the damage were useless. A North African was stopped, spotted with a burning stick in his hand, wandering around the country

A fire seriously damaged the church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Santa Elisabetta di Villastanza, a hamlet in the municipality of Parabiago, this afternoon, Friday.

The flames apparently started from the nativity scene housed in the religious structure, set by a man of North African origins who then ran away through the streets of the hamlet, stopped shortly afterwards by local police officers as he wandered around in a state of confusion.

As soon as the people present in the square in front noticed the smoke coming out of the main door, the firefighters were called while some citizens living in the area attempted to put out the flames with fire extinguishers, but to no avail.

The paper nativity scene caused high flames and smoke which damaged the wooden parts and also a 17th century organ. It took the Legnano firefighters a while to get under control of the fire.

Several witnesses said they saw a young man leaving the church with a burning stick in his hand and in a short time he was identified and stopped by the local Parabiaghese officers.

Mayor Raffaele Cucchi arrived on site to see what happened with his own eyes and expressed harsh words of condemnation for the gesture: “It is an attack on our traditions, our religion and our culture. The fire caused extensive damage to the seventeenth-century organ and to the entire church which will now not be available to the faithful of Villastanza a few days before Christmas.”

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