Well, America, who do you think?
Did Trump administration officials ruined their signal group chat on combat plans or Lyin's eyes?
“There was no classified information as I understand,” President Trump said Tuesday, a day after Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg reported that a group chat had been added accidentally in the signal of the messaging application in which the country's senior national security officials were flutting on the imminent plans of launching bombs in the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
“I can attest to the fact that there were no classified or intelligence actions that were included in that chat group at any time,” testified by Tulsi Gabbard's national intelligence director at a hearing at a hearing at the meeting of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
“No one is sending text messages to war plans,” insisted defense secretary Pete Hegseth to journalists in Hawaii on Wednesday. And yet, as Goldberg reported, Hegseth described air attacks that would be carried out by Navy F-18 based on an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea, and attacks with unmanned airplanes launched from the Middle East. Giving an exact moment, he wrote: “This is when the first bombs will definitely fall.”
It sounds like “classified or intelligence actions” for me.
Among the alignment of the rest of the chat group: Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who has been assumed in some way, including Goldberg.
The Trump administration, with its irrational destruction of critical services and institutions, with its incompetence and intentional ignorance, is playing Jenga with our American lives and democracy. Eliminates some more pieces of what keeps this country together: the Social Security Network, the ability of our courts to protect us from tyrannical extralimitation, the facts on current events and the history of the United States, and everything will collapse. Maybe he has already done it.
“I know exactly what I am doing,” said Hegseth, Fox News Weekend Elevated by the president of one of the most important works in the world because, he has suggested, he looks good on television. In the short time, the former infantry man of the National Guard has been the face of the powerful United States army, has constantly demonstrated that, in fact, he does not know what he is doing.
During his first appearance on the world scenario in Brussels, Hegseth foured the NATO membership for Ukraine and suggested that their borders could never be restored to what they were before Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. What a negotiator! He discarded the leverage of Ukraine even before peace conversations began.
“He made a rookie mistake,” said Mississippi Roger Wicker's Republican senator, who compared Hegseth's comments with something that could have been written by Tucker Carlson: “And Carlson is a fool.”
In any case, since when does the person in charge of the US army (its 2.8 million people, its 750 bases in 80 countries, its budget of $ 850 billion, can you enjoy a learning curve?
“Mr. Hegesh's last mistake could have led to catastrophic consequences,” said New York Times in a news about the constant false steps of the Secretary of Defense. “By revealing the plane, the objectives and the time to hit the sites of the Hutí militia in Yemen, Mr. Heghseth risked the life of the combatants of the American war.”
Arguing, as Trump and his allies have done, that the information was not classified, therefore, laws were not broken is simply misleading.
“It was confidential information, not classified, and was published inadvertently,” Atty. General Pam Bondi told journalists on Thursday, that he seemed to rule out any type of criminal investigation. And yet, the espionage law makes it a crime to manage national security secrets with such “severe negligence” that fall into the hands of an unauthorized person, as did the chat of the signal. It was also scheduled to disappear after an established period of time, a violation of the federal law that requires that all official communications be archived.
“It is because of the amazing grace of God that we are not in mourning in dead pilots at this time,” said Connecticut representative Jim Himes, the main democrat of the Chamber's Intelligence Committee during an audience on Wednesday. “Everyone here knows that the Russians or the Chinese could have obtained all that information, and they could have passed it to the hutis, who could easily have repositioned weapons and alter their plans to tear down airplanes or sink ships.”
If government officials in charge of keeping us safe, do not think that the details of an upcoming bombing mission should be maintained as closely as possible and not splashed around an application that is vulnerable to enemy computer pirates, they do not have businesses that maintain their work.
If this arrogant group had an ounce of integrity or humility, someone, and should be Hegseth, would resign.
At least, you must apologize for this colossal disorder and beg the forgiveness of the Americans who made in danger.
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