Pete Hegseth spent years on Fox News attacking Obama and Biden for reckless military operations that endangered civilians—now his Pentagon has quietly gutted the legally mandated programs designed to prevent exactly that. An internal Department of War report confirms this isn’t incompetence; it’s willful dismantling of civilian harm safeguards. He went from TV critic to the official actually removing the protections.

Source: https://theintercept.com/2026/05/15/pentagon-civilian-harm-casualties-war-hegseth/