JFC the chutzpah of this guy. He's STILL trying to brazen it out. Sounds like maybe he got a little too used to performing for an audience that believes whatever it's told. The idea that the info in that thread wouldn't have been classified is laughable. It's not just false; it's absurd.
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Billy Binion
When I worked at NATO, benign details about war game *simulations* were classified, much less particulars about actual attacks. The idea that this info wouldn't have been classified is a total fantasy (and an outright lie).
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Senators who confirmed him knew this going in, and should hang their own heads in shame.
Classifications are a security measure.
So maybe Hegseth should resign & the president could appoint someone who better understand and appreciate National Security to do the job right.
All he had to say is this should never have happened and will never happen again. We have already made those adjustments. No his default is to bully everyone near him.
But, in this case OPEC might also apply
But I can’t completely rule out the remote possibility that Hegseth is literally too ignorant and stupid to know that he’s lying 🤔
Also, how in the hell are weapons systems not "methods." So we have classified info and methods, at a minimum.
That would mean resigning, asshole.
They all are.
Maybe he just doesn't actually know what is classified and what isn't at the level of the position he's in.
He didn't do the reading. He hasn't studied it.
He's just going with what he thinks it ought to be.
- They weren’t using “text”, it was the “Signal” app
- We’re not at “war”, it was a “Special Military Operation”
- There are no “plans” - MAGAts can’t plan a birthday party!
So see, it’s all Fake News!
Herman Melville
X and others will essentially distribute that take.
https://bsky.app/profile/joocifer.bsky.social/post/3ll7tqecyis2r
https://bsky.app/profile/krassenstein.bsky.social/post/3llca52wf4s2b
Who is gonna want to work for the U.S now?
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/575384-cia-admits-to-losing-dozens-of-informants-around-the-world-nyt/
In reality, deciding whether to attack and why (what they were discussing on Signal) is the highest level of planning. Of course he doesn’t see that b/c he’s so out of his depth.
Poor Pete…he know he don’t belong. Lol.
Elon does the same shit.
It's insane how bad and transparent the lies are. It's like "I'm gonna make some random sounds and then we'll all agree to move on."
Goldberg's integrity is intact!
I’m here for it.
Pants on fire.
(I wanted to write at the guy’s level)
Had I been part of something like this, I would have been.
—Pete Hegseth in the last 24 hours