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BumRushDaShow

(159,112 posts)
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 12:28 PM Aug 20

Pete Hegseth's Security Detail Is So Big It's Pushing an Entire Army Agency to the Brink: WaPo

Source: MEDIAite

Aug 20th, 2025, 8:49 am


Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “unusually large” personal security detail has put “significant strain” on the Army agency responsible for providing the personnel — the Washington Post reports.

According to Post reporters Tara Copp, Alex Horton, and Dan Lamothe, the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) has pulled agents off of criminal investigations to safeguard Hegseth, his family, and even his exes. “I’ve never seen this many security teams for one guy,” an unnamed CID official told the Post. “Nobody has.”

The Army’s CID has approximately 1,500 agents — roughly 10 percent of whom typically serve on VIP security details, the Post reports. But numerous sources told the paper that under Hegseth, that figure has more than doubled — or even tripled.

Part of what prompted the increase in Hegseth’s detail, according to the report, was a bomb threat against his home in Tennessee just prior to his nomination as secretary. As a result, the Post reported that CID agents have been dispatched to Tennessee and Minnesota — where Hegseth’s second wife resides.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/pete-hegseths-security-detail-is-so-big-its-pushing-an-entire-army-agency-to-the-brink-wapo/



Link to WaPo article - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/20/hegseth-security-detail/
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Pete Hegseth's Security Detail Is So Big It's Pushing an Entire Army Agency to the Brink: WaPo (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 20 OP
Pitiful Faux pas Aug 20 #1
WhiskeyPete just can't seem to avoid bad press can he?? NoMoreRepugs Aug 20 #2
avoid bad press? he is bad press. nt Javaman Aug 20 #3
Security for his second wife? AverageOldGuy Aug 20 #4
What the hell?!?! PatSeg Aug 20 #5
He needs someone to do a booze run when he runs out. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 20 #6
Isn't it about time for Chump to fire somebody? FakeNoose Aug 20 #7
MaddowBlog-Pete Hegseth reportedly has an 'unusually large' security detail, generating pushback LetMyPeopleVote Aug 20 #8

AverageOldGuy

(2,884 posts)
4. Security for his second wife?
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 01:31 PM
Aug 20
As a result, the Post reported that CID agents have been dispatched to Tennessee and Minnesota — where Hegseth’s second wife resides.


I'm not clear on Hoghsbreath's marital status. As I recall he has three wives, don't know how many are current or divorced.

Maybe his ex-wives need security to protect them from him. Given his alcoholism, his current wife -- if there is one -- probably could use a couple of bodyguards.

FakeNoose

(38,438 posts)
7. Isn't it about time for Chump to fire somebody?
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 02:07 PM
Aug 20

I sure hope it's Whiskey Pete. Also Bob Kennedy will have to go. I bet they'll both be out by the end of 2025.
Chump can't stand it when his employees get more press (better or worse) than he does.

LetMyPeopleVote

(168,953 posts)
8. MaddowBlog-Pete Hegseth reportedly has an 'unusually large' security detail, generating pushback
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 04:48 PM
Aug 20

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s security detail is reportedly so large that it’s straining the Army agency that’s tasked with protecting him

He doesn't have real friends, but still wants a 'posse' to hang around with him... no matter what it costs us.

Pete Hegseth reportedly has an ‘unusually large’ security detail, generating pushback

flip.it/imu9ct

Deeds Not Words (@nodderuf.bsky.social) 2025-08-20T18:41:14.321Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/pete-hegseth-reportedly-unusually-large-security-detail-generating-pus-rcna226070

At the FBI, for example, the bureau’s deputy director has traditionally maintained a relatively low public profile and has never needed a security team. NBC News reported in April, however, that former conservative media personality Dan Bongino has received 24-hour security from a sizable contingent of agents.......

It’s against this backdrop that The Washington Post reported on the most egregious example to date.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s unusually large personal security requirements are straining the Army agency tasked with protecting him as it pulls agents from criminal investigations to safeguard family residences in Minnesota, Tennessee and D.C., according to numerous officials familiar with the operation.


The Post’s report, which has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, added that this multimillion-dollar initiative has forced the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division to even “monitor residences belonging to the Hegseths’ former spouses.”

Naturally, this is applying new strains on the Army agency and its budget. The Post spoke to one insider who said, “We have complete inability to achieve our most basic missions.”

The secretary and the Pentagon declined to comment.

The reporting, if accurate, is itself striking, but I continue to believe there’s a related story behind the story: On a very regular basis, Defense Department insiders have appeared quite eager to let the public know about Hegseth-related controversies, suggesting the former Fox News host still has more than his share of critics within the building.
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