{"id":1605,"date":"2025-09-16T21:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fraudulenttimes.com\/?p=1605"},"modified":"2025-09-16T21:18:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:18:26","slug":"disgraced-ex-defense-chief-claims-marines-death-was-merely-a-tactical-casualty-in-his-personal-war-against-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraudulenttimes.com\/pt\/disgraced-ex-defense-chief-claims-marines-death-was-merely-a-tactical-casualty-in-his-personal-war-against-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgraced Ex-Defense Chief Claims Marine&#8217;s Death Was Merely a &#8220;Tactical Casualty&#8221; in His Personal War Against Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C. \u2013<\/strong> Former Secretary of Defense Martin \u201cMarty\u201d Denholm broke nearly six months of public silence yesterday to address concerns regarding the 2023 training incident involving the late Corporal Garrett Schulte. Amid inquiries into his role, Denholm described the Marine\u2019s demise as \u201cnot a loss, but a necessary tactical casualty\u201d in his \u201congoing personal war against accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a press briefing conducted from the lobby of his attorney\u2019s office, Denholm indicated he bore \u201cno direct responsibility\u201d for the events that left Schulte fatally wounded, noting his primary adversary \u201cwas and remains the insidious spread of bureaucratic responsibility.\u201d According to Denholm, the fatal ammunition misplacement that led to the incident \u201creflects exclusively the dangers inherent to excessive oversight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A recently published report by the Government Committee on Defensive Oversight Oversight (GCDOO) unearthed eleven separate memos issued under Denholm\u2019s tenure, warning that \u201cexternal investigations are the greatest threat to operational lethality.\u201d The report also documents the introduction of Denholm\u2019s \u201cBlame Deflection Matrix\u201d \u2014 a flowchart reducing the likelihood of executive accountability to below 0.2%, according to lead analyst Dr. Joyce Glassner. \u201cIn the modern theatre, the fog of war has been skillfully relocated from battlefields to filing cabinets,\u201d Glassner declared.<\/p>\n<p>Family members of Corporal Schulte expressed confusion following Denholm\u2019s remarks, receiving instead a commemorative patch embroidered with the phrase \u201cFor Courage in the Face of Paperwork.\u201d According to Pentagon spokesperson Lee Vanzant, these patches are \u201cstandard issue under Denholm\u2019s Accountability Attrition Program,\u201d which has repurposed bereavement resources into team-building trust falls and executive indemnification workshops. \u201cWe are healing by moving forward, backwards, and laterally,\u201d Vanzant explained.<\/p>\n<p>Denholm concluded his comments by reiterating his campaign for \u201cconsequence-optional management structures,\u201d vowing to \u201cpress the offensive until blame, like the Marines, is never left behind.\u201d As of press time, the Defense Department had referred all further questions to the Department of Internal Narrative Management, which has suspended investigations until a more favorable storyline emerges.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2013 Former Secretary of Defense Martin \u201cMarty\u201d Denholm broke nearly six months of public silence yesterday to address concerns regarding the 2023 training incident involving the late Corporal Garrett Schulte. 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