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Hegseth, he was doing a great job… How do you bring Hegseth into it? He had nothing to do with this,
It was Mike, I guess. I don’t know, I always thought it was Mike,
Trump told reporters before calling the media’s reaction to the scandal a "witch hunt." The secretary of defense … seems like a person who is unserious and is trying to deflect from the fact that he participated in a conversation on an unclassified, commercial messaging app that he probably shouldn't have participated in."
Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, responded to Hegseth during an MSNBC interview People don't have a contact with, like, a phone number for a different person unless they're having an affair,
Is Elmo now, or has he ever been, a member of the Communist Party?”
Robert Garcia, a California Democrat, asked jokingly As someone who worked in the Situation Room before, I cannot believe Hegseth would recklessly text info that could put a target on our pilots and service members. He needs to resign,
There were no sources, methods, locations or war plans that were shared,
If I had seen that sort of information beforehand, that was shared with the special operation, in my experience, it would have been classified,
I would have lost my clearance,
He has been good to me and to this country, and I want to help him out."
When questioned about the wisdom of leaving documents that he knew to be classified with a newspaper publisher, Kennedy said of Graham Now I know what to do!"
Upon seeing them, the notoriously indecisive McLellan said There's a part of me that would love to see what else is happening in there. But there's a lot of different issues here related to law and ethics and all kinds of other issues that I really can't go into,
If Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, is texting me, telling me the attack was about to be launched on Yemen - telling me what kind of aircraft are going to be used, what kind of weapons are going to be used, and when the bombs are going to fall two hours after the text is received - that seems sensitive information, war-planning information to me."
Hegseth has dismissed the messages as non-classified, but Goldberg disagreed They invite me into this Signal chat and now they're attacking me as a sleaze bag, I don't even get it."
In an interview to BBC, he said Once Donald Trump said there was nothing to see here, essentially, and once Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe said there was no sensitive information, no classified information, et cetera - we felt like...we disagree, ... They're saying that, and we're the ones who have the texts, so maybe people should see them."
It doesn’t bother me.”
Asked about the call for an inspector general probe, Trump replied These are clear operational plans for the use of military force. I don’t see how the administration can claim these are not war plans, because they are clear plans for war.”
After seeing the messages, Bensahel said The Yemen chat is 100 percent sensitive operational information that reveals critical details of imminent operations.”
The phrase ‘war plan’ often (but not always) refers to a more comprehensive planning document, which can run hundreds of pages, with details of how the US military intends to pursue a particular military objective,
said Nora Bensahel, professor of practice at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and contributing editor to the War on the Rocks, a website that covers national security There was no war plans on there.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio also said
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