If Pete Hegseth Had Any Honor, He Would Resign. NY Times

[Mr. Sparkle]

I don’t know how Pete Hegseth can look service members in the eye. He’s just blown his credibility as a military leader. On Monday, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg published one of the most extraordinary stories I’ve ever read. President Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Waltz, apparently inadvertently invited Goldberg to join a Signal group chat (Signal is an encrypted messaging app) that seemed to include several senior Trump officials, including Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth.

A National Security Council spokesman told The Atlantic that the chat “appears to be authentic.” No one apparently noticed Goldberg’s presence, and he had a front-row seat as they debated Trump’s decision to attack the Houthi rebels, an Iran-backed militia that had been firing on civilian shipping in the Red Sea. Then, at 11:44 a.m. on March 15, the account labeled “Pete Hegseth” sent a message that contained “operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying and attack sequencing.”

This would be a stunning breach of security. I’m a former Army JAG officer (an Army lawyer). I’ve helped investigate numerous allegations of classified information spillages, and I’ve never even heard of anything this egregious — a secretary of defense intentionally using a civilian messaging app to share sensitive war plans without even apparently noticing a journalist was in the chat. There is not an officer alive whose career would survive a security breach like that. It would normally result in instant consequences (relief from command, for example) followed by a comprehensive investigation and, potentially, criminal charges.

Federal law makes it a crime when a person — through gross negligence — removes information “relating to the national defense” from “its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted or destroyed.”

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[MayReasonRule]

1. The Universe Has Boundaries -- Stupidity Knows No Bounds

[Ray Bruns]

10. And fat. And wants to wear really orange makeup.

And is a draft dodger. Yea, that’s the ticket.

[Irish_Dem]

2. They all committed serious federal crimes.

What if any consequences will they face?

[Henry203]

3. He raped a women

He has no honor.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. Should never use "honor" & that POS hegseth in the same sentence.

[Emile]

5. He was asleep at the wheel. Incompetent administration.

[Ray Bruns]

9. More likely drunk and passed out.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. HONOR? We don't need no stinking HONOR!

What a bunch of fucking morons headed by the Commander of the Fucking Morons!

[Vogon_Glory]

7. Of course this is the Trump administration. Honor, like that's so yesterday! n/t

[Paladin]

8. Too little, too late, NY Times. As usual. (nt)

[NNadir]

11. If the NY Times had any honor they wouldn't have normalized the Felon in the White House.

[Gimpyknee]

15. As has all the rest of the media.

[Botany]

12. Lock her up with Mike Flynn

[lonely bird]

16. Oh, that guy

He should have been court-martialed a long time ago.

And then punched.

[Botany]

26. And he gave up Crimea to Russia in 2013

... after which President Obama fired him and
he moved to Russia and then came back in '15
to work for Trump.

[lonely bird]

28. A possible Russian asset?

How could you think such things? 🤪😁

[Botany]

34. Russia got their hooks into Flynn in 2012 or '13

when he went to Russia. He is deeply compromised.

[lonely bird]

35. That is for damn sure

Imo, it arises from his Christian Nationalist ravings.

[blubunyip]

13. Honor?

that's for weak libtards.

[Wiz Imp]

14. They all should lose their jobs over this and at the very least, Hegseth should go to jail.

Of course none of that will happen, but it's the only possible fair & reasonable outcome of this.

[dalton99a]

17. Kick

[highplainsdem]

18. If Pete Hegseth had any honor, he wouldn't have become the Pete Hegseth we know.

[SheltieLover]

20. No kidding!

[SheltieLover]

19. No worries. He's a rethug so zero honor is a requirement

[Hope22]

21. If there were any honor left in this country ...

…all involved in the meeting would lose their job and face charges for endangering this country and those who protect it. TSF and his ill prepared team make a mockery of Federal Law intended to keep this country and the people in it safe.

[RainCaster]

22. If TSF has any honor, he will fire them all

But of course he won't.

[In It to Win It]

23. I forgot what honor feels like

[Bettie]

24. Well, we know that the orange man would NEVER

appoint anyone who even knew what honor was, let alone having any, so there will be no resignation.

He could be seen in public giving intel directly into Putin's hands and stay in his position.

[Mysterian]

25. The Trump regime is absolutely corrupt and none of his appointees have a shred of honor

or patriotism. They are gangsters intent only on enriching themselves with money and power.

[Lovie777]

27. shithole musk republicans have no honor and they are not patriotic...............

[LoisB]

29. If Pete Hegseth had any honor, he would not have accepted the job in the first place.

[BoRaGard]

30. G.O.P.ers like Heg's Seth don't do honor

They have sworn fealty to a draft-dodging, casino-hustling, big mouth felon.

That's all they got.

[niyad]

31. If the drunkard had any honour, he would not be the scumbag that he is.

[AllyCat]

32. Everyone on that text EXCEPT the reporter should resign.

All of them. They are unqualified and unsafe for the job.

[Woodwizard]

33. He has no shame.

A requirement when being a Republican anymore. The fact that he doubled down on it is enough.

We all know if this had been Obama's or Biden's watch this would be outrage fuel for the right for a minimum of a year. And deservedly so.

[lark]

36. Drunk rapist Nazi has zero honor-which is why he was chosen -his similarity to tsf - only prettier!

He's still a subhuman monster.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

38. Such an obviously dishonorable, despicable

creature!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

37. Hegseth needs to go

[Meowmee]

39. LOL

He doesn't and won't resign unless Trusk and P tell him to.