Hegseth is back in the news, and it ain't purty.
It looks like he disclosed the attack plans in a 2nd signal chat using a private phone, and some members of the chat apparently did not have security clearances.
>>>Before the US launched military strikes on
Yemen in March,
Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, sent detailed information about the planned attacks to a private Signal group chat that he created himself, which included his wife, his brother and about a dozen other people,
the New York Times reported on Sunday.
The Guardian
has independently confirmed the existence of Hegseth’s own private group chat.<<< (emphasis added)
US defense secretary texted strike information to his family in group chat he created, sources tell the New York Times
www.theguardian.com
This is on top of the chaos at the Pentagon. From the same Guardian article:
>>>Shortly after the news of the second Signal chat broke, Politico published an opinion article by Hegseth’s former press secretary, John Ullyot,
who wrote: “It’s been a month of total chaos at the Pentagon. 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”.<<<
And that was on top of the three fired staffers lashing out.
>>>In a joint statement from Dan Caldwell, Colin Carroll, and Darin Selnick, posted on
Caldwell’s X account, they claim that “unnamed Pentagon officials have slandered our character with baseless attacks on our way out the door.”<<<
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5257461-three-fired-pentagon-officials-hegseth-statement/
Hegseth is apparently purging anyone he suspects of being insufficiently loyal. In remarkable display of incompetence he's terminating everyone around him.
Captain Obvious says: "This is what happens when top officials are selected based on loyalty rather than competence."
