You better believe that if AOC started a group chat and shared classified / restricted military info with unauthorized people, thereby potentially putting soldiers at risk, I would ABSOLUTELY PILE ON with the blame.
Hegseth and Gabbard have to resign as well as Ratcliffe and Walz. When operational security is compromised like this, they have to resign. In the military, the evidence is already there and in courts martial cases, the prosecutor has all the cards.
If AOC is texting future military operational details she’s privy to with a consumer application because of a security clearance they SHOULD “do it” to “her people,” though.
This seems mostly like an apples-to-oranges comparison but I’m not completely up on her committee assignments, thus “mostly”.
(I do appreciate the reminder to re-familiarize myself with what congressional office record-keeping requirements are like in comparison to executive branch requirements since I’m drawing a blank on it.)
The larger point? That these officials do not have a legitimate reason -they are reaching to come up with a justification to carry out an illegal war on Ansar Allah (referred to as “The Houthis”
There is no justification to wage war against them and that point is being lost in the scandal.
This is a weird hill to die on. They were using Signal in the first place as a conspiracy to skirt recordkeeping laws. We know this wasn't the first time. THAT is the major crime here, and I fail to see how absolving these "leaders" of responsibility serves the nation.
I don't mean to absolve them for skirting record keeping laws . . . but it sure looks like cabinet-level appointees were 'red teamed' here, and that seems worth remarking, as a person concerned about the impacts of US IC impunity on civil life and democracy.
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This seems mostly like an apples-to-oranges comparison but I’m not completely up on her committee assignments, thus “mostly”.
There is no justification to wage war against them and that point is being lost in the scandal.