The most striking aspect is the MAGA denial and hypocrisy.
Texts to Reporters on Yemen Military Strike
Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg reports The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.
This is going to require some explaining.
The Wall Street Journal reports Top Trump Officials Debated War Plans on Unclassified Chat Shared With Journalist
Senior Trump administration national-security officials held detailed discussions of highly classified U.S. plans to launch airstrikes against Yemen’s Houthi militants using a commercial messaging service and mistakenly included a journalist in the conversation, U.S. officials said Monday.
The chats over the Signal encrypted messaging service spanned days and included specific information about weapons, targets and timing used in the attack, according to the Atlantic magazine, whose editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, was inadvertently included in the discussion and who disclosed the texts.
Vice President JD Vance was skeptical of the need to strike the Houthis. Little U.S. trade passed through the Suez Canal, the maritime thorough way connecting the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, whereas “40 percent of European trade does.”
Attacking the militants, Vance argued, would benefit Europe far more than the U.S. and might lead to a spike in oil prices. “I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now,” he said. While he would support the consensus of the top officials in the chat, Vance said, “I just hate bailing Europe out again.” [Inconsistent messaging, hmm no one could possibly have thought that]
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and an account with the initial S.M., apparently the initials of senior White House aide Stephen Miller, agreed with Vance’s criticism of Europe.
“It’s PATHETIC,” Hegseth said, though he recommended moving forward with the strikes instead of delaying the attack another month, as Vance suggested. The debate about the attack could leak, making the administration appear “indecisive,” or that Israel would decide to strike first, Hegseth said.
National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes confirmed the authenticity of the chat in a statement to The Wall Street Journal. He didn’t respond to questions about whether the chat ran afoul of legal procedures for handling classified information.
“I never sent any classified information on anything other than a secure U.S. government system. There is no justification whatsoever—none—to use any nongovernmental system,” said John Bolton, Trump’s third national-security adviser during the president’s first term. “This is appalling.” [Expect Trump supporters to attack Bolton instead of focusing on the message]
Hegseth, speaking to reporters in Hawaii Monday, criticized Goldberg as “discredited” and said that “nobody was texting war plans and that’s all I have to say about that.” [Ah yes, attack the person you sent the texts to as “discredited]
According to the Atlantic article, Hegseth pushed back on delaying the operation by a month, in part out of fear a potential leak would make the administration look “indecisive.” Two hours before the strikes began, Hegseth sent the group sensitive information about the strike plan, including “weapons packages, targets, and timing,” the magazine said.
Goldberg wrote that he was initially dubious that the Signal chat group he was mistakenly invited to join was authentic. “I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.”
The article didn’t include the operational details on the strike and withheld the name of a CIA official, Goldberg said.
Hegseth is Discredited
Please play this Amusing Video of Hegseth arracking Goldberg.
Hegseth made a jackass out of himself.
Here are some Texts Regarding Yemen.
Had the administration acknowledged the serious error, Hegseth would not look so stupid, and I would not be doing this post.
In this X video, Trump said he didn’t know anything about it.
How many find that credible?
Image the howls had this happened under the Biden administration.