Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer, AP reports
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See. Rules don’t apply to these effing assholes! He should be fired immediately and imprisoned! This is a major breach of protocol and real threat to national security!!!! The fact that he cannot access Signal on government network and hardware tells you everything you need to know!
This shows very clearly, beyond a reasonable doubt, that he was ILLEGALLY trying to go around The Official Records Act, and violate NATIONAL SECURITY at the same time. He belongs in prison.
Right?!!!! "But her e-mails" always rang hollow. But "private server" vs very public hackable app THAT THE NSA DIRECTLY WARNED EVERYONE IS COMPROMISED AND TO NOT USE IT!!! Hypocrisy is endless with the MAGAts, but this just shows they have no shame either.
FIRE HIM! Treat him like the people under his command! If any high ranking military member did that today! There would be a court martial and they would be jailed for a few decades. Leaders are supposed to lead by example. Fire him and charge him today. Anything less is criminal dereliction.
I’m wondering if they are thinking about how to remove him behind the scenes. I heard that grump realizes he needs to remove him or he will get removed. Not sure but that’s what is being talked about?
Well he does have his own makeup studio, now, in the Pentagon. So I'll let your imagination run wild on that, LOL! Wouldn't doubt if it's spray Grey. You know, trying to look more like The Man?🥴🫤
Would seem that if you are intentionally bypassing security protocols, you are intending to send classified data through the workarounds to places it should not be sent
He needs to be investigated and step down, Who is he trying to communicate with aside from his friends and family?. Is his behavior designed to make it easier to hack . Does he fear the open records act . The fact that all his official documents must be kept for review?.
Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer, AP reports
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Time to impeach is overdue !
This isn’t running a private server. This is using a consumer program to avoid any records. The political officials running their own servers aren’t using them to send war plans to their buddies. This is illegal.
And they'd be 100% accurate in calling for prison time. Because anyone that is stupid enough, incompetent enough, etc, to do shit like this NEEDS to be charged under the Espionage Act. You can get 20 years for leaking video of decade old operations. But this? This is a real time data breach
So not acceptable. The incompetence and flagrant disregard for safe and secure communication with military leaders and allies is staggering. Oh and he thinks it’s cool to include his wife in classified war plans. Someone, anyone going to do anything about this??? Ffs
It has been reported earlier that he has a Russian email address …guess he wouldn’t want to be accessing that with the personal computer on the pentagon’s wifi.
Hillary Clinton’s private email server made the GOP nearly stroke out, but now Hegseth is doing things that are 100x less secure and we are supposed to accept it? Wtf.
And those were sent to her she didn’t distribute them. The republicans made this grand hoopla about her emails and it just wasn’t. While pence had a server ivanka was using a personal phone. Jared couldn’t even get security clearance etc etc etc.
In any company, a person who bypasses security procedures by using his own personal computer, thereby endangering the entire company, would have been fired yesterday, not today. It is absurd that this man remains in his post.
This is the defense secretary, dammit!
If there was something wrong with the security, being the head he could have filed the paperwork to have that changed ASASP and have everyone updated accordingly
So why didn’t he want the changes documented? Where’s the transparency??
The MAGA regime would rather have spies from hostile countries get our country's national secrets than operate in the lawful way that continues our tradition of transparency of historical record because they want to hide evidence of their crimes.
That proves intent to COMMIT crimes, LOTS of them!
Fact is, they want to bypass official (and more secure) communication services so there won't be any official record of their conversations. They don't want us to know what they're saying - but their basic stupidity has exposed it all anyway!
At this point because nothing has happened to him. I’m guessing this is all on purpose in order to allow Russia or some other benefactor to steal stuff from the US government.
Don’t forget this is for one reason: he wants to avoid any tracking of his actions and any documentation of his communications and plans. This way there is nothing to subpoena or FOIA
Nobody should ever take any Republican's outrage over Dems' mistakes (like Clinton's emails) seriously again. Talk to the hand.
This administration is so far ahead of any other on the stupid, incompetent, inefficient, and national security violation scale, and yet there's nothing from Republicans.
SCIF:
A sensitive compartmented information facility, in United States military, national security/national defense and intelligence parlance, is an enclosed area within a building that is used to process sensitive compartmented information types of classified information.
I think it’s funny that not a SINGLE Republican has the tiniest issue with this. Even really deep down, you’d hope they’d feel a little bit “hey this isn’t good.” But nope. They are so soulless and dead inside that they are cool
with all this.
To set up the Signal desktop app, you need to scan a QR code displayed on the desktop with your mobile phone to link the accounts. This takes some deliberate planning to ensure you can use Signal where you can't otherwise use it on your phone. They really wanted to bypass security controls.
I truly think the mainstream media wanted Trump to win. He makes better front-page news than a Democrat administration that does its job with no scandals or fanfare.
How do we use that to flood him with our report card evaluations and give him a taste of reality of what the majority thinks of him? He is a colossal scary mess.
I worked for a defense contractor before. I had to go through the lowest level clearance possible and if I dared bring my cell phone into a secured room I’d have been fired on the spot and definitely served time.
Lucky for him, the MAGA Messiah doesn't care. Trump is more interested in how much cover Hegseth malfeasance gives him. Hegseth is in no danger of being removed from office because the US Congress no longer has a spine.
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GOP don’t have an atom of integrity among all of them.
Samuel Alito thinks about that?
Is his wife flying the flag upside down?
LOCK HIM UP
LOCK HIM UP
LOCK HIM UP
LOCK HIM UP
We mustn’t confuse hypocrisy with supremacy.
Sounds like an excuse a 1st grader would make when they got in trouble for cutting in the lunch line.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Period
Irresponsible....
- The Wire
Do you think that’s what he used for his Russian email address too?
They are all Hypocrites!
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Time to impeach is overdue !
IF this were a Democrat they'd be calling for prison time.
Hillary Clinton’s private email server made the GOP nearly stroke out, but now Hegseth is doing things that are 100x less secure and we are supposed to accept it? Wtf.
This is the defense secretary, dammit!
If there was something wrong with the security, being the head he could have filed the paperwork to have that changed ASASP and have everyone updated accordingly
So why didn’t he want the changes documented? Where’s the transparency??
That proves intent to COMMIT crimes, LOTS of them!
Right out of the mafia and Trump cookbook
Capitol switchboard (202) 224-3121.
Email them through their websites.
Tell them this:
1. Call for impeachment. Loudly. Daily.
2. Visit the concentration camps in El Salvador and demand to see your constituents.
Or don’t ask for money…
(Please repost)
Kegsweat should be in Leavenworth. Doing twenty to life.
Instead he’s prancing around on fffukks news like a fucking puppet.
Hegseth dishonours the country.
Hegseth dishonours the military.
God damn him.
Good damn him and his like to hell.
Good grief
At least thoughs were secure.
JFC.
This administration is so far ahead of any other on the stupid, incompetent, inefficient, and national security violation scale, and yet there's nothing from Republicans.
This is just the shit we KNOW about.
This is just the shit WE know about.
Krasnov installs his puppet-mole as SoD
Mole does, what moles do, burrows holes.
KGB runs out of vodka during celebration
It is as if this is a Russian spy with intellect of a todler with a brain trauma
How Odd..
Because I'm sure he never once uttered "But her emails" or anything similar...
A sensitive compartmented information facility, in United States military, national security/national defense and intelligence parlance, is an enclosed area within a building that is used to process sensitive compartmented information types of classified information.
No matter what your political views, this is STUPID and DANGEROUS.
WTF happened to the American military ??
Did we just give up ????
with all this.
They all think they are going to be the new ruSSian oligarchs.
Most of them will be cast aside soon.
🖕
#ButHerEmails
https://www.ngrippel.com/ngr-politics.html