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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(134,654 posts) Mon Dec 8, 2025, 02:47 PM Dec 8

Himes: GOP lawmakers concerned 'in private' about inspector general report on Hegseth

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said Sunday that his Republican colleagues are expressing concerns privately after an inspector general report found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth jeopardized troop safety and violated Pentagon policy.

“Absolutely, they’re saying it in private,” Himes told host Margaret Brennan on CBS News’s “Face the Nation.” “In public, of course, they’re saying that it was perfect exoneration, right?”

The 84-page report from the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG), released Wednesday, found that Hegseth put American troops in danger by discussing a pending strike on alleged Houthi targets in Yemen on the Signal app.

The OIG report also determined that Hegseth flouted department policy in sharing details of the strike on the messaging app, which were revealed when then-national security adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, to a group chat with administration officials.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/himes-gop-lawmakers-concerned-private-184357107.html

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Himes: GOP lawmakers concerned 'in private' about inspector general report on Hegseth (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 8 OP

America needs a vaccine to combat GOP CONCERN Attilatheblond Dec 8 #1

I have no fucks to give these cowards bronxiteforever Dec 8 #2

Here's the main point, in my opinion usonian Dec 8 #3

How "concerned"? Regular or Susan Collin's level of "CONCERN"? yellowcanine Dec 8 #4

Attilatheblond

(8,643 posts)

1. America needs a vaccine to combat GOP CONCERN

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 02:49 PM

Dec 8

It's not a condition that leads to actual good governance.

bronxiteforever

(11,212 posts)

2. I have no fucks to give these cowards

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 03:06 PM

Dec 8

I hope they all lose their jobs and are humiliated.

usonian

(24,600 posts)

3. Here's the main point, in my opinion

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 04:31 PM

Dec 8

Federal Records Act: Requires official communications to be preserved. Signal’s auto-deletion features prevent compliant record retention unless the user manually captures messages.

The use of private phones (of others) by cosplay president Trump and use of Signal by these cosplay officials is TO AVOID BEING RECORDED as the law requires.

More at these links.

https://www.military.com/feature/2025/12/05/what-signal-and-why-it-was-never-built-war-rooms.html

https://ashesonair.org/2025/03/27/why-did-trump-officials-use-signal-for-attack-plans-and-what-were-the-alternatives/

Criminals, in fact.

yellowcanine

(36,757 posts)

4. How "concerned"? Regular or Susan Collin's level of "CONCERN"?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Mon Dec 8, 2025, 04:50 PM

Dec 8

Either way, their "concern" is not worth a bucket of warm piss.

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