13-06-2025
'I've put a lot of thought into this, and I think he was just trying to sound cool.'
I couldn't possibly single out the best of many perfect lines in Kerry Howley's detailed and morbidly funny exposé of chaos at the Pentagon, where Signalgate was just the tip of the iceberg. But this part is pretty good:
Carroll encountered many people as he walked through the hallway, onto the escalator, off the escalator, through the mess hall, to the basement, where he was interrogated for an hour. On the way out, in the Pentagon lobby, he saw General Michael Guetlein.
'Mike,' Carroll said, 'I got fired.'
'That's really funny,' said the general.
