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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums****BREAKING NEWS**** Inspector General Finds Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages
For nearly nine months, Trump-administration officials have defended top national-security leaders who shared information in a Signal chat about U.S. strikes in Yemen, first reported by The Atlantics editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, who was inadvertently included in the group. Officials played down the severity of the breach and insisted that the information wasnt classified.
Now the Pentagons top watchdog has concluded that the information Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared in the chat could have put the mission, U.S. personnel, and national security at risk had it fallen into the wrong hands. The information Hegseth shared included the precise times that fighter pilots would attack their targets. If Houthi militants had learned those details in advance, they might have been able to shoot down American planes or better defend their positions.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2025/12/hegseth-signalgate-trump-defense-pentagon/684997/
Norrrm
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dem4decades
(13,984 posts)Ilsa
(64,270 posts)trumpgoons if he/she doesn't stay silent.
dem4decades
(13,984 posts)groundloop
(13,766 posts)maspaha
(737 posts)MarineCombatEngineer
(18,028 posts)underpants
(196,139 posts)Prairie Gates
(7,959 posts)Martin Eden
(15,542 posts)In a sane world, that is.
Torchlight
(6,737 posts)Between the two, they're sucking news time away from the boy who would be king. I don't think Mr. trump wants anyone other than himself to receive the lion's share of the center of media discussion, whether good or bad. trump sees airtime like currency, and to trump there are no bad dollars, only people who have more or less of it than he.
Rec
Thats exactly why Eloon the Muskrat got shoved out. Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent does not share a spotlight with anyone.
Don't bet the farm. All bets are off re: accountability with this crime cabal.
UTUSN
(77,588 posts)Takket
(23,670 posts)IcyPeas
(25,359 posts)Can't read the paywalled article
Thanks
Celerity
(54,245 posts)Vinca
(53,825 posts)leftstreet
(40,261 posts)Pretty sure an Inspector General said the same thing back then
And yet, Hegseth is still here
MustLoveBeagles
(15,954 posts)Gimpyknee
(1,025 posts)Clouds Passing
(7,864 posts)liberalla
(11,035 posts)I kept hearing there was more to come out and this was not over... Yay!
Dark n Stormy Knight
(10,484 posts)FFS? Signal Gate was ages ago.
J_William_Ryan
(3,466 posts)And whats going to be done about it?
Nothing, as usual.
The powerful are above the law, immune from being brought to justice.