It was less likely that the sun would rise this morning than that the Trump-installed inspector general (IG) of the Defense Department would rebuff a bipartisan Senate request for an investigation of the . Those restrictions enabled Russian aerial assets to evade Ukraine’s defenses and bombard its cities. The Associated Press reported last night that, on Tuesday, Pentagon Inspector General Platte Moring had informed the nine senators (five Democrats and four Republicans) that he would not get involved and that they should direct their inquiries to the Air Force (i.e., to an armed service commanded by Trump’s “War” Secretary and to the commander-in-chief himself).
As I’ve detailed (see here, here, here, and here), the Trump administration, in collaboration with Elon Musk, the head honcho of SpaceX, which operates Starshield, the military version of its Starlink satellite communications system, is attempting to baffle Americans with a dizzying storyline. Government officials are banking on the public’s general unfamiliarity with Starlink and consequent failure to distinguish it from Starshield, and on deceptive “terms of use” (or “terms of service”) talking points that administration officials and Musk himself numbingly recite.
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