New Texts Prove Hegseth Leaked ‘Court-Martial’ Level Secrets
www.thedailybeast.com
Trump’s top officials insisted no classified information was included in the chat, but defense sources now contradict that claim.

Summary

The Atlantic has published unredacted attack plans (non-paywall link) shared in a Signal group chat of senior Trump officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and DNI Tulsi Gabbard.

Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg released the full texts after officials denied sharing war plans or classified information, arguing transparency was necessary amid accusations of dishonesty.

The leaked messages detailed U.S. military strikes targeting Houthis in Yemen.

  • ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world
    911·
    8 days ago

    So yesterday they lied to congress more often than they told the truth? So many “I don’t recall” when in fact they could pull it up on their phone and know? Traitors to American families every one of them

    • andros_rex@lemmy.world
      711·
      8 days ago

      Lying about sleeping with an intern - impeachment

      Lying about sharing classified information on an insecure group chat - “he’s just a widdle guy 😢”

      • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.caEnglish
        131·
        8 days ago

        Especially bad when the whole “reason” for that impeachment was about investment fraud or something and only became about sex with intern after they couldn’t prove anything else.

        • andros_rex@lemmy.world
          161·
          8 days ago

          Whitewater real estate scandal. Kenneth Starr was investigating him for that and when they couldn’t find anything actionable, they switched to the perjury and sex.

          I’m not a fan of a President using their power to have an intern blow them (I don’t think there’s meaningful consent there), but it doesn’t compare to raping multiple women, peeping on teenage girls at Miss Teen America, and making comments about how you’d fuck your daughter if that was an option. The aristocrats!

          • Weirdfish@lemmy.world
            33·
            7 days ago

            Stop taking away women’s agency with this “meaningful consent” bullshit.

            At the time I was in the Air Force, and a bunch of us were discussing this. Well over half the women at the table has the attitude of “Are you kidding? Of course, blowing the most powerful man in the world is hot as hell”.

            Monica was obviously into it and an adult.

            • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
              2·
              7 days ago

              “Sure my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship,” Lewinsky wrote in 2014. “Any ‘abuse’ came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position.”

              Lewinsky says she now sees that her relationship with Clinton was full of “inappropriate abuse of authority, station, and privilege.”

              “Now, at 44, I’m beginning (just beginning) to consider the implications of the power differentials that were so vast between a president and a White House intern,” she wrote. “I’m beginning to entertain the notion that in such a circumstance the idea of consent might well be rendered moot.”

              – https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/02/26/monica-lewinsky-vanity-fair/375452002/

              @andros_rex@lemmy.world didn’t take away Lewinski’s agency.

            • andros_rex@lemmy.world
              11·
              7 days ago

              Are you a woman? How the fuck do you meaningfully say no to sex with the President?

              Go fuck yourself with that “taking away women’s agency” bullshit. Bosses don’t get to sleep with employees. Teachers don’t get to sleep with students.

              Monica got treated like shit for decade. That’s not “hot as hell” unless you’re a creepy misogynist that gets off on women being public humiliated.

    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
      16·
      8 days ago

      I fucking hate this shit so much.

      So you don’t recall a lot, huh? So clearly you’re not fit for your position, good luck finding a new job tho.

    • Samskara@sh.itjust.works
      18·
      7 days ago

      I am in lots of group chats and don’t read every one of them to completion. So not all members of the chat knowing or remembering what happened is to be expected.

      • pachrist@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        7 days ago

        Yeah, but the second something juicy happens, we all scroll back and get caught up pretty quickly.

      • WildPalmTree@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 days ago

        You are in group chats at this level? Because, I’m sure as fuck is not. And if I was, I’d read every message.