New Texts Prove Hegseth Leaked ‘Court-Martial’ Level Secrets
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Trump’s top officials insisted no classified information was included in the chat, but defense sources now contradict that claim.

Summary

The Atlantic has published unredacted attack plans (non-paywall link) shared in a Signal group chat of senior Trump officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and DNI Tulsi Gabbard.

Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg released the full texts after officials denied sharing war plans or classified information, arguing transparency was necessary amid accusations of dishonesty.

The leaked messages detailed U.S. military strikes targeting Houthis in Yemen.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    What happened with her emails? HRC was prosecuted or something? Or did they just do nothing then too?

    The state almost never punishes itself.

    • bstix
      101·
      4 days ago

      Turns out she was innocent. She didn’t follow the protocol for classified documents. However the documents were not classified until after they were sent. She didn’t break the law.

      It didn’t stop them though. Something must’ve been in those documents because they got buried in bureaucracy in following lawsuits.

      In June 2016, in response to the Republican National Committee’s complaints filed in March 2016, the State Department estimates it will take 75 years to complete the review of documents which are responsive to the complaints. It has been observed that a delay of this nature would cause the documents to remain out of public view longer than the vast majority of classified documents which must be declassified after 25 years.