"As the nation reels over Pete Hegseth allegedly giving direct orders to carry out heinous war crimes, we are now being reminded of the defense secretary's other big scandal from earlier in the year: when he was caught texting secret war plans about launching airstrikes in Yemen in an unsecured group chat while totally oblivious to the fact that a journalist was in there reading everything."
"That context is important, though the latest embarrassing detail to emerge from the "Signalgate" scandal comes not from Hegseth but his vice president and charisma black hole JD Vance. As spotted by The New Republic, in the same group chat at the center of all that drama, Vance sent a bizarre late-night text just hours after it was exposed by The Atlantic for being a stunning violation of national security."
Pete Hegseth used an unsecured Signal group chat to text secret war plans about launching airstrikes in Yemen while a journalist was present and reading messages. JD Vance sent a late-night message saying "This chat's kind of dead" and "Anything going on?" with no responses shown in a March 27 screenshot taken two days after the message. Other participants, including treasury secretary Scott Bessent, altered display names and chat settings to make messages disappear more quickly. A Pentagon inspector general report confirmed the Signal communications violated security protocols and endangered troops. Hegseth has publicly denied that war plans were being texted, saying "Nobody was texting war plans."
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