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Me: ...Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.
Well, the republicans here are silent but there's lots of media attention on this one today (see below). Let me quote from the original article:
Conceivably, Waltz, by coordinating a national-security-related action over Signal, may have violated several provisions of the Espionage Act, which governs the handling of “national defense” information, according to several national-security lawyers interviewed by my colleague Shane Harris for this story. Harris asked them to consider a hypothetical scenario in which a senior U.S. official creates a Signal thread for the express purpose of sharing information with Cabinet officials about an active military operation. He did not show them the actual Signal messages or tell them specifically what had occurred.
All of these lawyers said that a U.S. official should not establish a Signal thread in the first place. Information about an active operation would presumably fit the law’s definition of “national defense” information. The Signal app is not approved by the government for sharing classified information. The government has its own systems for that purpose. If officials want to discuss military activity, they should go into a specially designed space known as a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF—most Cabinet-level national-security officials have one installed in their home—or communicate only on approved government equipment, the lawyers said. Normally, cellphones are not permitted inside a SCIF, which suggests that as these officials were sharing information about an active military operation, they could have been moving around in public. Had they lost their phones, or had they been stolen, the potential risk to national security would have been severe.
Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election for using a private email server and King Donald has repeated hundreds of times that she belongs in prison. At least one poster here has said the same.
Yet here we are.
Brian Hughes, the spokesman for the National Security Council, said the Signal group chat was just fine and dandy because nothing bad happened... that we know of.
Umm, Hillary Clinton would like a word.
Axios: "Heads should roll": Congress erupts over stunning Trump admin leak
ABC News: Messages with Yemen war plans inadvertently shared with reporter appears 'authentic': Official
NYT: Hegseth Disclosed Secret War Plans in a Group Chat
Newsweek: Pete Hegseth Sent Secret War Plans to Journalist by Accident: Report
The Hill: Moulton: Hegseth a danger to US, servicemembers
Politico: ‘Amateur hour’: Washington aghast at Trump administration’s war plan group chat
Variety: Trump’s Defense Secretary Accidentally Texted War Plans to The Atlantic: ‘I Didn’t Think It Could Be Real,’ Editor Says
Military Times: Top Trump officials accidentally shared war plans with media
Funny, I don't see anything on Fox News.
