U.S. military launches strikes in retaliation for Iran downing helicopter: Pentagon

[Prairie Gates]

10. I don't believe a single word coming out of Pete Hegseth's Pentagon

It has already been shown that they lied repeatedly about 1) the extent to which Iran's missile capacity was degraded; 2) the extent of the damage to US assets in theater; 3) the seriousness and extent of personnel wounded; 4) the extent and seriousness of damage and personnel losses among allied or supporting forces.

I don't believe they've lied about KIAs, though the Israelis are clearly lying about the number of KIAs they are taking in the drone war in southern Lebanon.

Seriously, though, if Hegseth's Pentagon told me it was raining, I'd go outside to check, and then do a complete scan for covert hoses and hidden sprinkler systems. They are lying, straight up.