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#SecDef #PeteHegseth has reoriented the US #military to prioritize deterring #China’s seizure of #Taiwan & shoring up homeland #defense by “assuming risk” in #Europe & other parts of the world, acc/to a *secret* internal guidance memo that bears the fingerprints of the conservative #HeritageFoundation, including some passages that are nearly word-for-word duplications of text published by the think tank last year.

#Trump #USpol #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #leak

#NewYorkTimes 12:02pm ET

#AG #PamBondi signaled Thur there was unlikely 2 B criminal investigation into the sharing of military operation details in unsecured text group, declaring..specifics of when..jets would depart, when bombs would fall, were “not classified"

Bondi..was asked abt public debate surrounding #SecDef #PeteHegseth after he sent details of coming attack on rebels in Yemen to sr admin offcls in #Signal grp chat that accidentally included a magazine edtr

nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/poli

Attorney General Pam Bondi seemed to be ruling out any criminal investigation into how details of a military operation were shared in an insecure text group.
The New York Times · Bondi Suggests Signal Chat Episode Is Unlikely to Be Criminally InvestigatedBy Devlin Barrett

Classic #FAFO
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Via #RawStory @ 4:07pm ET - Mar 26, 2025

#Punchbowl reporter #JakeSherman revealed.. #SenateRepublicans may have "buyer's remorse" after allowing #SecretaryOfDefense #PeteHegseth 2 sail through confirmation

Speaking to #MSNBC Wednesday, host #KatyTur noted "significant Republican" Sen. #RogerWicker of #Mississippi, chair of the #SenateArmedServicesCommittee, has indicated he's unhappy about what has been coined "#Signalgate"

#SecDef #FireHegseth

rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2671

Raw Story · 'Buyer's remorse': Top Senate Republican may be regretting support for Pete HegsethBy Sarah K. Burris

Via #CTV News @ 4:32pm ET on Mar 25, 2025

Allies of the #UnitedStates see the group chat between top U.S. officials about a planned attack in #Yemen that accidentally included a #journalist as a jaw-dropping #SecurityBreach which casts doubt on intelligence-sharing with #Washington and the security of joint #military operations.

#Houthi #SecDef #Signal

ctvnews.ca/world/article/ameri

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth prepares to give a television interview outside the White House, Friday, March 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
CTVNews · America's allies alarmed by a leaked group chat about attack plansBy The Associated Press

DUI hire<DEI hire.

It's unimaginable ( except it isn't) what level of fubar it is to discuss Top Secret Classified military plans on Signal , and to include a journalist.substack.com/redirect/a23d5324

Experts warned that hiring people based on cultural war and not experience and competence would put America at risk.

It's #Trump who did this #FAFO #clowns #secdef #scandal #idiots #signal

The Atlantic · The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansBy Jeffrey Goldberg