Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is under close scrutiny as Republican lawmakers criticize his handling of sensitive military information in a group chat with other administration officials that inadvertently included a journalist.
Republican lawmakers have stopped short of calling on Hegseth to resign, but they’re warning that his decision to share sensitive details about a pending military strike against Houthi rebels in Yemen over Signal, a commercial app, is a clear “strike” against him.
GOP senators are questioning Hegseth’s judgment in the whole affair.
They’re scratching their heads over his decision to divulge sensitive details about when attack fighter jets would launch and when strike drones would reach their targets on a commercial app, which was then accessed by at least two recipients’ private phones.
And they’re wondering about Hegseth’s response to reporters’ questions, specifically his adamant denial that “nobody’s texting war plans” after a National Security Council spokesperson had confirmed that the chat group’s reported texts appeared to be “authentic.”
Republican senators said privately they couldn’t imagine Hegseth’s predecessors, such as former secretaries of Defense Robert Gates and Jim Mattis, making similar mistakes.
Posted by John3262005
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Wake me up when the GOP cucks actually have some fucking balls
Oh? You couldn’t imagine the guy who spent nearly 30 years in the CIA or a man who was a decorated, highly regarded and professional military general would be so careless? Yeah, neither can I, so why the fuck did you confirm the goddamn Delta Upsilon Iota pledge?
From – 1 PSI to 0 PSI.
Republicans should be the more pissed than anyone about this. If you support this administrations agenda, having senior cabinet members completely fumble the bag on the most basic aspects of their position is a liability to your political objectives.
We’re lucky that this fuck up only lead to embarrassment, this is the kind of thing that easily could have gotten Americans killed. You can try hand waving this away, but drinkin Pete is a time bomb and it’s a matter of when, not if, he fucks up again.
My brothers in Christ you confirmed him
It’s not actually pressure when it’s all done in private and about “scratching their heads”
More beltway media slop to pretend that Republicans are a political party, and not a cult.
The upside of all of this is the Republicans in my office are now convinced BOTH sides are incompetent morons instead of just the Democrats.
What did they do – have “Margaritaville” piped into the conference room while only water was available?
I’m sure they’re very concerned
> Republican lawmakers have stopped short of calling on Hegseth to resign, but they’re warning that his decision to share sensitive details about a pending military strike against Houthi rebels in Yemen over Signal, a commercial app, is a clear “strike” against him.
so this pressure won’t amount to much, okay
You mean the Republican senate confirmed Secretary of Defense?
Who could have possibly prevented this!?!
they have a point, because as bad as the whole affair was with Waltz adding a journalist and using signal for this stuff, waltz did tell everyone to check their [government issued device] for the deets, but only Hesgeth was actually providing live military intelligence on American units.