War Secretary Pete Hegseth slammed Senator Mark Kelly and five military veterans as seditious over a controversial troop video.
They were dubbed the “Seditious Six”—a half dozen lawmakers, all with prior service in the intelligence community and/or the military, who released a video on November 18 urging active-duty troops to refuse orders they personally deemed unlawful. To many observers, it looked like exactly what it was: a thinly veiled invitation to rebellion within the ranks.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was clearly having none of it. On Monday, he dropped the hammer in a blunt social-media post, calling the video exactly what it was: “seditious” while singling out Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, a retired US Navy captain, who just found out after he effed around: