Hegseth Shared Attack Details in Second Chat

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Hegseth Shared Attack Details in Second Chat

April 20, 2025 at 5:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/04/20/hegseth-shared-attack-details-in-second-chat/

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer,“ the New York Times reports.

“Some of those people said that the information Mr. Hegseth shared on the Signal chat included the flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets targeting the Houthis in Yemen — essentially the same attack plans that he shared on a separate Signal chat the same day that mistakenly included the editor of The Atlantic.”

[Irish_Dem]

1. US military and intelligence personnel are in danger.

Some may have already been killed or disappeared.

[Hope22]

3. Yes....how would we ever know. Nt

[Irish_Dem]

5. When Trump was in office last time, there was a high rate of disappearing intel assets.

We did hear about it later.

But yes now we will not be told anything at all.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. NYT: Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat

NYT - (archived: https://archive.ph/IY7Nm ) Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat

The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.

By Greg Jaffe, Eric Schmitt and Maggie Haberman
April 20, 2025, 5:03 p.m. ET



Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat.

Some of those people said that the information Mr. Hegseth shared on the Signal chat included the flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets targeting the Houthis in Yemen — essentially the same attack plans that he shared on a separate Signal chat the same day that mistakenly included the editor of The Atlantic.

Mr. Hegseth’s wife, Jennifer, a former Fox News producer, is not a Defense Department employee, but she has traveled with him overseas and drawn criticism for accompanying her husband to sensitive meetings with foreign leaders.

Mr. Hegseth’s brother Phil and Tim Parlatore, who continues to serve as his personal lawyer, both have jobs in the Pentagon, but it is not clear why either would need to know about upcoming military strikes aimed at the Houthis in Yemen.

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[dchill]

4. But why? 🤔

Either stupid, traitorous or both. I think I know, but I'd only be guessing.

[stillcool]

6. sounds like it's a brand new toy

he's so frigging important! How can he keep it to himself?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. WhiskeyLeaks

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BREAKING - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared War plans in a SECOND group message with his wife, brother, and personal lawyer reports the New York Times.

REPOST ♻️ if you Agree he should RESIGN.

[Renew Deal]

12. That's very funny

[UTUSN]

8. Not that any of KRASNOV and his entire mob should *ever* have been there

and apparently the MAGAt zombies don't even pretend to care about the country, the military, the Constitution anymore, but the blatancy of his fool's blankety blankness needs to be actionable *now*!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Start the clock.

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Link to tweet

[dchill]

10. If we were all as smart as Pete Hegseth....

... we'd all be dumber. The stupidity will end this less-than-grand experiment sooner rather than later.

[Javaman]

11. The incompetent led by the clueless controlled by psychopaths nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. 'Full-blown meltdown' at Trump's Pentagon as Hegseth faces fresh Signal chat allegations

As Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faces new fallout from Signal chat, the Pentagon's former spokesperson said there's “total chaos” at the DOD.

As Hegseth's Pentagon reaches the "full-blown meltdown" stage, don't forget to blame the president and 50 Republican senators who thought it'd be a good idea to put a manifestly unqualified television personality in charge of the Defense Department. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-04-21T12:04:39.303Z

As Hegseth's Pentagon reaches the "full-blown meltdown" stage, don't forget to blame the president and 50 Republican senators who thought it'd be a good idea to put a manifestly unqualified television personality in charge of the Defense Department.

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/full-blown-meltdown-trumps-pentagon-hegseth-faces-fresh-signal-chat-al-rcna202091

And just when it seemed things couldn’t get much worse, they got worse. NBC News reported:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used his personal phone to send information about U.S. military operations in Yemen to a 13-person Signal group chat, including his wife and his brother, two sources with knowledge of the matter confirmed to NBC News. He did so after an aide had warned him to be careful not to share sensitive information on an unsecure communications system before the Yemen operation, the sources said.

These allegations, of course, come on the heels of Hegseth’s prominent role in last month’s Signal chat scandal — the controversy some have labeled “Signalgate” — that’s currently under investigation by the Department of Defense’s inspector general’s office. (Hegseth continues to deny allegations that he shared classified information through unsecured channels. The White House echoed the denial.)

“You know, what a big surprise that a bunch of leakers get fired and suddenly a bunch of hit pieces come out from the same media that pedaled the Russia hoax,” Hegseth told reporters at the White House on Monday when asked about the latest revelations. (The Russia scandal was quite real, no matter how many times Trump's allies pretend otherwise.)

He added: “This is what the media does. They take anonymous sources from disgruntled former employees, and then they try to slash and burn people and ruin their reputations. Not going to work with me.”......

Hegseth’s tenure as the secretary of defense was already a disaster before the Signal chat scandal broke last month, but conditions are spectacularly worse now.

In a normal and healthy political environment, Hegseth would have no choice at this point but to start writing his resignation letter and putting his belongings in a cardboard box. Then again, in a normal and healthy political environment, a president wouldn’t have nominated a manifestly unqualified, scandal-plagued television personality to lead the Defense Department, and in a normal and healthy political environment, his nomination would’ve received zero confirmation votes in the Senate.

Indeed, as the chaos intensifies at the Pentagon, I find myself looking anew at the roll call on Hegseth’s confirmation, when 50 Republican senators put aside everything they knew about the nominee and put him in an incredibly important and challenging position. As the scandal mounts, they bear as much responsibility as anyone.