Another Illuminating tidbit from Jeff Childers…that was not explained properly in any other media outlet including Alt Conservative ones !

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Yesterday, United Press International ran a quiet but very encouraging story headlined, “Hegseth dismisses Pentagon advisory committees.” It was wonderful news. Susan Rice —yes, that Susan Rice— was hit hardest.

CLIP: Susan Rice whines about getting fired from cushy patronage job at DoD (1:09).

https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1915879454611570912?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The DoD’s “Advisory Committees” are civilian panels that provide “independent advice” to the Department of Defense on “policy, strategy, technology, personnel, and operations.” They were authorized under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) of 1972, which supposedly ensures transparency (spoiler: it doesn’t) and regulates how advisory groups interact with the government.

You never saw a cronier crony-network. It’s packed with friends of DoD and military contractors, in a grotesque “you rub my back, I’ll rub yours” feedback cycle. Generals used “Advisory Committee opinions” to justify the things they want to do, and military industrial firms got lucrative contracts to build fantastic but practically useless high-tech weapons.

Technically, advisory committee members are “volunteers.” (Hang on a moment till I stop laughing.) They get travel reimbursements (first class, if you know how to fill out the form), daily stipends, and honorary titles that translate into very lucrative MIC gigs. Sit on the Defense Policy Board, for example, like Susan Rice did, and suddenly Raytheon or Booz Allen Hamilton is offering you a $400K “consulting” gig for five hours of “advising” a year.

In the clip above, you can see mega-entitled Susan Rice seething with righteous indignation over losing her patriotic “volunteer” position on the Defense Policy Board— one of the cushiest and most prestigious positions in Washington.

Over the years, DoD Advisory Committees multiplied in the dark like basement fungus. They are a swampy blob that promiscuously overlaps and intermingles. I couldn’t find any source listing the actual totals, maybe nobody knows. But when Pete Hegseth ordered the blanket dismissal of all advisory committee members across the entire Department of Defense, it cancelled the terms of hundreds of advisors and dozens (30-40?) of major committees, plus even more ‘working groups’ and ‘subcommittees.’

Purges of the committees aren’t unprecedented. Trump 1.0 deleted some Obama/Biden holdovers. And Biden axed Trump’s appointees. But Hegseth completely cleaned the Pentagon’s advisory Deep State house, firing all of them in a historic “burn it down and start over” strategy.

Secretary Hegseth says the advisory committees will be re-staffed with people focused on winning wars, military merit, and supply-chain security, rather than patronage, equity, diversity, and keeping the war machine humming efficiently