Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce he is “immediately pulling” former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff retired Army Gen. Mark Milley’s personal security detail and security clearance, according to Fox News.
Hegseth is also directing the acting Department of Defense Inspector General to conduct a review board to determine if enough evidence exists for Gen. Milley to be stripped of a star in retirement due to his actions to “undermine the chain of command” at the end of President Donald Trump’s first term, the report added.
Furthermore, the Pentagon will remove a second portrait of Milley from inside the Pentagon from his time as the Army chief of staff as soon as Tuesday evening. Last Monday, on Inauguration Day, the Pentagon removed one portrait of Milley just ten days after it was mounted.
Milley, in addition to other senior Trump officials, had been assigned personal security details due to the threat from Iran after the U.S. military conducted a fatal strike killing Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force leader Qasem Soleimani in 2020.
A senior administration official told Fox News, “There is a new era of accountability in the Defense Department under President Trump’s leadership—and that’s exactly what the American people expect.”
