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Jilly_in_VA

(13,660 posts)
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 12:15 PM Thursday

HEGSETH RISKED 'HARM' TO DOD PERSONNEL

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth risked endangering U.S. military personnel when he used the commercial messaging app Signal to discuss real-time war plans, a report by the Pentagon’s acting inspector general released Thursday has found.

The inquiry examined Hegseth’s use of the app, rather than secure government channels, to discuss detailed information about a military strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen, in what became known as Signalgate.

The massive security breach was revealed when The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg published a March 24 story detailing how he had been added to the Signal chat that also involved 18 high-ranking officials, including Hegseth and national security adviser Michael Waltz.

The group chat went into detail about times, types of aircraft and targets.

The internal Pentagon probe found that “using a personal cell phone to conduct official business and send nonpublic DoD information through Signal risks potential compromise of sensitive DoD information, which could cause harm to DoD personnel and mission objectives.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-hegseth-signalgate-report_n_693199f2e4b0824b6df8382e

But ya think he would EVER get punished for that? Nah.

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HEGSETH RISKED 'HARM' TO DOD PERSONNEL (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Thursday OP
I bet they are still using Signal, gab13by13 Thursday #1
Hagueseth will be given Traildogbob Thursday #2
Hegseth jeopardized the mission. He put US pilots' lives at risk. Then blatantly lied and covered it up. LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #3

Traildogbob

(12,338 posts)
2. Hagueseth will be given
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 12:33 PM
Thursday

Presidential Medal of Freedom, Purple Heart and enough medals to double the ones On the real hero’s, (25 year Navy Fighter Pilot, Astronaut Kelly), chest (in proper order obviously) and soon will be in our face daily playing dress up like Muammar Gaddafi, Standing with ICE Barbie in all out Navy Seal battle gear, with a chest full of medals, cheered on by all the GQP never served war hawks and FUCK’s Noise. And Lindsay Graham.
Outfit budget for both in the Millions of tax payer dollars. Real warriors like Jesse Waters, Steve Bannon and Miller the Killer ejaculating on set just seeing them and praising their service to America, now great again.

LetMyPeopleVote

(173,617 posts)
3. Hegseth jeopardized the mission. He put US pilots' lives at risk. Then blatantly lied and covered it up.
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 03:40 PM
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