This story was one of those surprised but yet not at all surprised news for me.  We knew Mattis was a swamp rat but I don't think we all appreciate yet just how swamp juiced up he is and what he did while working for our President is going to make this look like nothing.  He abused the trust POTUS put in him but I think perhaps he was being watched and was given plenty of space and rope to hang himself and now the curtain gets pulled back so the public can see what he did with said rope.