April 11, 2025.

On April 4th, Trump fired head of U.S. Cyber Command, or Cybercom, and director of the National

Security Agency, or NSA, General Timothy Hoff, apparently on the recommendation of right-wing conspiracy

theorist Laura Lumer, who is pitching her new opposition research firm to vet candidates for jobs

in Trump's administration. Former Secretary of the Air Force, Frank Kendall, wrote in Newsweek

yesterday that the position Hoff held is one of the most Force, Frank Kendall, wrote in Newsweek yesterday that the position Hoff held

is one of the most sensitive and powerful jobs in America. Kendall writes that NSA and Cybercom

oversee the world's most sophisticated tools and techniques to penetrate computer systems,

monitor communications around the globe, and, if national security

requires it, attack those systems. U.S. law drastically curtails how those tools can be used in

the U.S. and against American citizens and businesses. Will a Trump loyalist follow those laws? Kendall writes,

every American should view this development with alarm. Just after 2 a.m. Eastern time this morning,

the Senate confirmed retired Air Force Lieutenant General John Dan Kane, who goes by by the nickname Raisin for Chairman of the Joint

Chiefs of Staff by a vote of 60 to 25. U.S. law requires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs

of Staff to have served as the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Chief of Staff of the

Army, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Chief of Naval Operations,

the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, or the Commander of a Unified

or Specified Combatant Command. Although Kane has 34 years of military experience, he did not

serve in any of the required positions.

The law provides that the president can waive the requirement if the president determines

such action is necessary in the national interest, and he has apparently done so for Kane.

The politicization of the U.S. military by filling it with Trump loyalists is now,

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