US Defense Secretary Hegseth shared war plans in second Signal chat, NYT reports

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Damn..this is guy is just plain incompetent. forget politics...
Time for a new guy.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/de...ns-second-signal-chat-nyt-reports-2025-04-20/


U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, the New York Times reported on Sunday, raising more questions about his use of an unclassified messaging system to share highly sensitive security details.
Hegseth allegedly shared the same details of the attack that were revealed last month by The Atlantic magazine after its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was included in a separate chat on the Signal app by mistake
in an embarrassing incident involving all of President Donald Trump's most senior national security officials.

The Times, citing four sources familiar with the message group, said that second chat included details of the schedule of the air strikes.
Hegseth's wife, Jennifer, a former Fox News producer, has also reportedly attended sensitive meetings with foreign military counterparts, the Wall Street Journal has separately reported.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Take your wife..the FOX producer, to work day?

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-brought-his-wife-to-sensitive-meetings-with-foreign-military-officials-c16db0ea

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is facing scrutiny over his handling of details of a military strike, brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions.

One of the meetings, a high-level discussion at the Pentagon on March 6 between Hegseth and U.K. Secretary of Defense John Healey, took place at a sensitive moment for the trans-Atlantic alliance, one day after the U.S. said it had cut off military intelligence sharing with Ukraine. The group that met at the Pentagon, which included Adm. Tony Radakin, the head of the U.K.’s armed forces, discussed the U.S. rationale behind that decision, as well as future military collaboration between the two allies, according to people familiar with the meeting.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Damn..this is guy is just plain incompetent. forget politics...
Time for a new guy.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/de...ns-second-signal-chat-nyt-reports-2025-04-20/


U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, the New York Times reported on Sunday, raising more questions about his use of an unclassified messaging system to share highly sensitive security details.
Hegseth allegedly shared the same details of the attack that were revealed last month by The Atlantic magazine after its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was included in a separate chat on the Signal app by mistake
in an embarrassing incident involving all of President Donald Trump's most senior national security officials.

The Times, citing four sources familiar with the message group, said that second chat included details of the schedule of the air strikes.
Hegseth's wife, Jennifer, a former Fox News producer, has also reportedly attended sensitive meetings with foreign military counterparts, the Wall Street Journal has separately reported.

The moron who appointed him is even more incompetent.

Yes, time for a new guy.

 

[1srelluc]

Name the sources or STFU.

 

[kyzr]

YAWN.

 

[Crepitus]

Damn..this is guy is just plain incompetent. forget politics...
Time for a new guy.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/de...ns-second-signal-chat-nyt-reports-2025-04-20/


U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, the New York Times reported on Sunday, raising more questions about his use of an unclassified messaging system to share highly sensitive security details.
Hegseth allegedly shared the same details of the attack that were revealed last month by The Atlantic magazine after its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was included in a separate chat on the Signal app by mistake
in an embarrassing incident involving all of President Donald Trump's most senior national security officials.

The Times, citing four sources familiar with the message group, said that second chat included details of the schedule of the air strikes.
Hegseth's wife, Jennifer, a former Fox News producer, has also reportedly attended sensitive meetings with foreign military counterparts, the Wall Street Journal has separately reported.

 

[westwall]

So, no sources, just more fake news from the fake news crowd.

M'kay......

 

[okfine]

Damn..this is guy is just plain incompetent. forget politics...
Time for a new guy.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/de...ns-second-signal-chat-nyt-reports-2025-04-20/


U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, the New York Times reported on Sunday, raising more questions about his use of an unclassified messaging system to share highly sensitive security details.
Hegseth allegedly shared the same details of the attack that were revealed last month by The Atlantic magazine after its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was included in a separate chat on the Signal app by mistake
in an embarrassing incident involving all of President Donald Trump's most senior national security officials.

The Times, citing four sources familiar with the message group, said that second chat included details of the schedule of the air strikes.
Hegseth's wife, Jennifer, a former Fox News producer, has also reportedly attended sensitive meetings with foreign military counterparts, the Wall Street Journal has separately reported.

Not since Bush 2 have we had a more incompetent bunch of total morons working for a narcissistic POS.

 

[okfine]

So, no sources, just more fake news from the fake news crowd.

M'kay......

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

This is not prog or maga or anything but the guy is not right for this job.

 

[dudmuck]

So, no sources, just more fake news from the fake news crowd.

M'kay......

the number of failed fact checks from new york times is so few, that you have to go back six years, and they can be counted on a single hand.

 

[Eman623]

Assuming this is even true (and if you can't trust unnamed anonymous sources, well who can you trust?), if there is a leaker in this administration, they need to be identified, fired, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Remember endangering American lives? Was that all bullshit?

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

New York Times.
Grain of salt.

 

[scruffy]

Not since Bush 2 have we had a more incompetent bunch of total morons working for a narcissistic POS.

You mean not since Biden.

Biden was the king of leaks.

 

[Jantje_Smit]

The Times, citing four sources familiar with the message group..

An awful lot of sources seem to be familiar with it, and they all couldn't wait to tell the NYT..

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Damn..this is guy is just plain incompetent. forget politics...
Time for a new guy.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/de...ns-second-signal-chat-nyt-reports-2025-04-20/


U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, the New York Times reported on Sunday, raising more questions about his use of an unclassified messaging system to share highly sensitive security details.
Hegseth allegedly shared the same details of the attack that were revealed last month by The Atlantic magazine after its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was included in a separate chat on the Signal app by mistake
in an embarrassing incident involving all of President Donald Trump's most senior national security officials.

The Times, citing four sources familiar with the message group, said that second chat included details of the schedule of the air strikes.
Hegseth's wife, Jennifer, a former Fox News producer, has also reportedly attended sensitive meetings with foreign military counterparts, the Wall Street Journal has separately reported.

Someone on a news show referred to the way they were behaving the first Signal chat with the excessive emojis and tone I believe it was as them acting as if they were engaging in cosplay.

Where's the HELL is that alleged MERIT that we've been beaten over the head with?

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

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[EvilEyeFleegle]

Name the sources or STFU.

Well..here's one anyway:

Former Hegseth aide in op-ed: 'Total chaos at the Pentagon'

John Ullyot, until recently a Pentagon spokesman, wrote that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a distraction and that it’s hard to see him remaining in the job.

www.nbcnews.com

An aide to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth published an op-ed Sunday in which he was highly critical of his former boss and suggested that President Donald Trump might soon remove him after weeks of turmoil, including leaked texts about airstrikes in Yemen and the abrupt firings of top officials.

“It’s been a month of total chaos at the Pentagon,” John Ullyot, who had been a top spokesman at the Defense Department before he left his job there last week, wrote on Politico. “From leaks of sensitive operational plans to mass firings, the dysfunction is now a major distraction for the president — who deserves better from his senior leadership.

“President Donald Trump has a strong record of holding his officials to account. Given that, it’s hard to see Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth remaining in his position for much longer.”

The Defense Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Ullyot, who worked in the first Trump administration, as well, also noted the firings of several top Pentagon officials in the last several days. On Friday, according to Ullyot, Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, was removed from his position following the firings of several other senior aides to Hegseth, including deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and senior adviser Dan Caldwell, as well as the chief of staff to the deputy secretary of defense, Colin Carroll. (Selnick, Caldwell and Carroll said in a statement Saturday: “We are incredibly disappointed by the manner in which our service at the Department of Defense ended. Unnamed Pentagon officials have slandered our character with baseless attacks on our way out the door.”)

“In the aftermath [of the firings], Defense Department officials working for Hegseth tried to smear the aides anonymously to reporters, claiming they were fired for leaking sensitive information as part of an investigation ordered earlier this month,” Ullyot wrote. “Yet none of this is true.”

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Pete Hegseth shared Yemen attack details in second Signal chat – report

US defense secretary texted strike information to his family in group chat he created, sources tell the New York Times

www.theguardian.com

So his wife was in on the second group chat. I can understand his mother being in on it because of her strategic importance but his wife ?

This drunk rapist is a clown. America will be lucky that Greenland doesnt invade in the next year.

Merit based my arse !

 

[wamose]

This sounds like our totalitarian media at work.