"'They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,' the former official said."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/pentagons-digital-resignations-00290930
"'They’re not really using AI, they’re not really driving efficiency. What they’re doing is smashing everything,' the former official said."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/15/pentagons-digital-resignations-00290930
Steven Stebbins, the #Pentagon’s acting #IG, said in a memo to #SecDef #PeteHegseth & Dpty #DOD Secy Steve Feinberg that the review will “determine the extent to which the Secretary of #Defense & other DoD personnel complied with DoD policies & procedures for the use of a commercial messaging application for official business.”
#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
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/signal-leak-prosecution-bondi.html
Via #CNN's #OutFront, with #ErinBurnett @ 7:06pm, Mar 26, 2025
"This incident is a serious breach of national security -- no ifs, ands or buts! When highly classified attack plans are compromised, it endangers lives, the military mission, and our national security. It must be investigated, whoever is responsible fired, and steps taken to make certain it never happens again."
Leon Panetta
Former Defense Secretary
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"
By #EllieQuinlanHoughtaling via #NewRepublic @ 1:27pm ET on Mar 26, 2025
Representative #ChrissyHoulahan cornered #NationalIntelligenceDirector #TulsiGabbard during a #HouseIntelligenceCommittee hearing Wednesday, committing the intelligence chief to “follow the law” and investigate the #Trump administration’s #Signal leak regarding plans to attack #Houthi targets in #Yemen.
#DNI #Signalgate #Hegseth #SecDef
https://newrepublic.com/post/193209/democrat-tulsi-gabbard-crucial-confession-group-chat
There are so many pictorial memes that need to be thrown at this!
Via #StephenColbert and #TheLateShow, March 25
Are you tired of being contacted by the Secretary of Defence sharing imminent war plans?
Download the HegsBlocker today!
#Colbert #Comedy #ColdOpens #PeteHegseth #SecDef #DefenceSecretary #Signalgate
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.
Maybe #Congress should just #subpoena #JeffreyGoldberg and get the facts directly from him, rather than depend on a bunch of proven liars for the truth
Earlier today, Senator #MichaelBennett asked #CIA Director #JohnRatcliffe if he was aware #Trump's Special Envoy to the #MiddleEast, #SteveWitkoff, was in #Moscow while on the #Signal chat. Ratcliffe responded, "I did not know that"
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Are you fucking kidding me??
You're the goddamn Director of the fucking CIA!!!
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.https://substack.com/redirect/a23d5324-5d86-4b0f-a1e7-9fe3d4dfbcc1?j=eyJ1IjoiMWVraGxzIn0.3uDjjocqKtnX1aAsVt42bFijbLneQPmE1etEGdNdji4
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
#PeteButtigieg to #CNN's "The Source" with #KaitlanCollins, on the Signal chat eff-up:
"How many OTHER times has this happened?"