Summary

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denied allegations that he texted classified war plans to a Signal group chat that mistakenly included The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg.

The National Security Council confirmed the chat’s authenticity but called the inclusion of Goldberg an inadvertent mistake.

Lawmakers from both parties demanded investigations, with former CIA Director Leon Panetta warning of potential espionage violations.

Hegseth dismissed Goldberg as a “deceitful” journalist. Trump denied knowledge of the incident.

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Ah yes - the classic Trump approach… just yell Fake News as loud as possible.

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I’m seriously hopeful that the people who have historically given into this lie are wising up.

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Narrator: “They weren’t.”

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In my circle they are, thankfully.

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Don’t hold your breath. The Repubs will just say they haven’t read the news.

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While acknowledging that Trump voters are emotional and fear-prone, they’re not entirely stupid and generally not cultists, probably, maybe. Can we have some sliver of hope? The ones I know are certainly not stupid but are tragically misinformed and savants of confirmation bias. I’ve also noticed that they care a great deal. It seems more like a target misalignment problem than a broken turret.

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They don’t care.

He’s hurting people they hate, that’s all they care about.

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Also, start with talking bad of media that was involved (see Orange’s first comment).

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He knows they have the screenshots and the NSC confirmed it, right?

https://x.com/JenGriffinFNC/status/1904221405618577650

NSC statement:  “At this time, the message thread that was reported appears to be authentic, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain. The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials. The ongoing success of the Houthi operation demonstrates that there were no threats to our servicemembers or our  national security.” - NSC Spokesman Brian Hughes

The Trump administration does not deny this Signal group chat about the war planning for the Yemen strikes is real. Trump’s top national security advisers added reporter

@JeffreyGoldberg

@TheAtlantic

to the war planning text chain on non-government social media app, perhaps breaking secrecy laws. Read this shocking story below.

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Pro tip: if you change the x.com to xcancel.com you can make the link use a twitter mirror and not give Musk revenue if people click on the link

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More “sourcing the quote” than anything else, but thanks!

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Sigh. Todays word of the day is kakistocracy.

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The classified plans aren’t allowed out of the SCIF and the phone isn’t allowed in the SCIF. Anything you learn in the SCIF cannot be stored, shared, or spoken about outside of a SCIF especially on electronic media. If anyone in the military did this, like lets say Chelsea Manning, and shared it with a journalist, like say Julian Assange, they would end up in prison for a while.

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Chelsea Manning*

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A lot of people assume this is the correct way to speak because it’s chronologically correct, but the general consensus in the trans community is that she was always Chelsea Manning, and always was a woman, and the time that she spent using the other name and gender need not be reflected upon. I do not know how Chelsea Manning personally feels about this, and every individual is entitled to their own respect, however the general etiquette when you do not know is to NOT deadname or misgender them, regardless of what era of their life you are referring to.

This is not an attack. Just a PSA.

Have a peaceful evening.

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That’s still deadnaming and misgendering tho, as I understand it as a cis guy myself. I encourage you edit your original response with her current name and gender

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All that is true. In addition, those communications are subject to records retention laws, so using signal and flagging them to be deleted is illegal in itself.

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You dumb fuck, there are screenshots of all of it, plus your own people admitted it

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These dipshits can’t get their thumbs out of each other’s butts long enough to get their story straight. I’d laugh if I thought there would be any real consequences for this nonsense.

Only 46 months to go…

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pete hegseth was a DUI hire.

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He’s in a really unique position in that he can claim to not remember doing something awful, and most likely be telling the truth.

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At least Nixon recorded himself

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Wow how did I never think of this.

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