Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks Hegseth over soldier deaths as Pentagon guts civilian protection agency
Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly tore into War Secretary Pete Hegseth over US soldiers killed in the Iran war, just as reporting shows the Pentagon has dismantled the office meant to prevent civilian deaths — bad news for anyone hoping for accountability.
- Greene called the soldiers' deaths not a "sacrifice" but a killing caused by a war fought for Israel, breaking sharply with Trump and the administration.
- The Pentagon's Civilian Protection Center of Excellence has shrunk from 40 staff to nine, and its database for tracking civilian harm was scrapped.
- What's left of the office is barred from investigating big incidents, including a US strike on an Iranian elementary school in February that killed more than 150 people, mostly children.
- AI is taking over the job: a new prototype cuts the time to assess civilian harm by 97%, using Palantir's Maven system.
- Stephen Miller holds Palantir stock, raising conflict-of-interest questions about who profits from the switch.
Outlook: With the Iran ceasefire broken and strikes continuing, civilian deaths are likely to keep climbing with almost no one inside the Pentagon counting them.