Steven Stebbins, the #Pentagon’s acting #IG, said in a memo to #SecDef #PeteHegseth & Dpty #DOD Secy Steve Feinberg that the review will “determine the extent to which the Secretary of #Defense & other DoD personnel complied with DoD policies & procedures for the use of a commercial messaging application for official business.”
#SecDef #PeteHegseth has reoriented the US #military to prioritize deterring #China’s seizure of #Taiwan & shoring up homeland #defense by “assuming risk” in #Europe & other parts of the world, acc/to a *secret* internal guidance memo that bears the fingerprints of the conservative #HeritageFoundation, including some passages that are nearly word-for-word duplications of text published by the think tank last year.
#Trump #USpol #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #leak
#NewYorkTimes 12:02pm ET
#AG #PamBondi signaled Thur there was unlikely 2 B criminal investigation into the sharing of military operation details in unsecured text group, declaring..specifics of when..jets would depart, when bombs would fall, were “not classified"
Bondi..was asked abt public debate surrounding #SecDef #PeteHegseth after he sent details of coming attack on rebels in Yemen to sr admin offcls in #Signal grp chat that accidentally included a magazine edtr
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/signal-leak-prosecution-bondi.html
There are so many pictorial memes that need to be thrown at this!
Via #StephenColbert and #TheLateShow, March 25
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#Colbert #Comedy #ColdOpens #PeteHegseth #SecDef #DefenceSecretary #Signalgate
Maybe #Congress should just #subpoena #JeffreyGoldberg and get the facts directly from him, rather than depend on a bunch of proven liars for the truth
DUI hire<DEI hire.
It's unimaginable ( except it isn't) what level of fubar it is to discuss Top Secret Classified military plans on Signal , and to include a journalist.https://substack.com/redirect/a23d5324-5d86-4b0f-a1e7-9fe3d4dfbcc1?j=eyJ1IjoiMWVraGxzIn0.3uDjjocqKtnX1aAsVt42bFijbLneQPmE1etEGdNdji4
Experts warned that hiring people based on cultural war and not experience and competence would put America at risk.
It's #Trump who did this #FAFO #clowns #secdef #scandal #idiots #signal
@maniajack @Strandjunker
Broken any Operational Security 101 rules in the last hour, Defense Secretary Pete "Boozehound McRapey" Hegseth?
It's all fun and games until they get us into a real shooting war.
#Hegseth #OpSec #OperationalSecurity #ButHerEmails #ButHisSignals #SecDef #Signal #USPolitics #TuckersBalls
Hegseth and 45 are bad for US national security.
“‘Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt — which on its face seems unfair to CQ. But since he has made the race card one of his biggest calling cards, it doesn’t really much matter,’ Hegseth wrote.”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-brown-joint-chiefs-of-staff-firing-fa428cc1508a583b3bf5e7a5a58f6acf
Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/hegseths-rough-start-pentagon-chief-faces-protest-us-base-abroad-rcna191828
#hegseth #secdef #usa #trump
A return to #Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is “an unrealistic objective” & an “illusionary goal” in the peace settlement between Ukraine & #Russia that #Trump wants to accomplish, the #SecDef #PeteHegseth, said… [meaning, Ukraine gives up their #sovereign territories that have been invaded to Russia].
#geopolitics #StandWithUkraine #Putin #PutinsPuppet #ForeignPolicy #diplomacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/world/europe/ukraine-war-hegseth-nato.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare