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'Slap in the face': Hegseth accused of manipulating military families deprived of benefits
The Pentagon Didn’t Misplace the Dead. It Rebranded Them.The source here is simple: Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is accused of stripping recent casualty figures from an internal tracking system, recasting them under a vaguer category, and then defending the move with bureaucratic language about “data disruptions” and concluded operations. Sen. Tammy Duckworth says that isn’t bookkeeping. It is manipulation, and it may also muddy benefits for families already carrying the cost of a war the government is trying to blur.Who Actually Holds PowerThe power in this story sits where it always sits: with…
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