Post B0ucslinf494FAL9sm by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #B0uYCWFWOfPYHJFBPk by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-12-04T17:00:04Z
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The #Defense Dept’s #InspectorGeneral released a long-awaited report Thursday morning about Secy #PeteHegseth’s disclosure of plans for airstrikes in #Yemen on a #Signal chat group. The office simultaneously released a second report on “the use of unclassified networks & non–#DoD-controlled electronic messaging systems to discuss sensitive & classified information.”https://media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/2003834916/-1/-1/1/DODIG_2026_021.PDF#Trump #Hegseth #SignalGate #law #MilitaryLaw #military #OpSec #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #idiocracy
(DIR) Post #B0uYbuI69EiQ56YSxM by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-12-04T17:04:40Z
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The #Pentagon’s #InspectorGeneral’s report into #PeteHegseth’s use of the #Signal app to share details of upcoming #airstrikes into #Yemen on March 15 found the #defense secy “sent a message containing operational information” to a group chat which included 19 people, including #JeffreyGoldberg, editor in chief of #TheAtlantic. It said that #Hegseth did so FROM HIS HOME on an Army base in Washington while accompanied by “his junior military assistant, & his personal communicator.”#SignalGate
(DIR) Post #B0uYzpzHndQzgVAOfI by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-12-04T17:08:59Z
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The #Pentagon’s acting #InspectorGeneral found that the head of #US #CENTCOM, which oversaw the impending strikes into #Yemen, sent a secure message to #Hegseth & the acting chair of the #JointChiefs at roughly 9PM on March 14, approximately 17hrs before the op began, containing info about the planned attacks that was #classified as #secret, with no dissemination allowed to foreign nationals. #Trump #SignalGate #law #MilitaryLaw #military #OpSec #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Signal #idiocracy
(DIR) Post #B0uZLJlsGA9o8d8Ugi by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-12-04T17:12:52Z
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The report went on to say that the next day #Hegseth sent some of that #classified operational information from his PERSONAL CELLPHONE to the #Signal chat group.The #InspectorGeneral’s evaluation of #Defense Secy Pete Hegseth’s actions on March 15 were complicated by at least 2 factors. First, the #DoD provided only a partial copy of messages from Hegseth’s cellphone to #Signal because some of messages had “auto-deleted.”#Trump #SignalGate #law #military #OpSec #NationalSecurity #InfoSec
(DIR) Post #B0uZSen0VqPtLuAK7k by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-12-04T17:14:11Z
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That meant the #InspectorGeneral had to rely in part on a transcript of those messages published by #TheAtlantic magazine. The second major obstacle was Hegseth’s refusal to be interviewed in person. Instead, #Hegseth submitted a written response to questions in July, months after the incident.#Trump #SignalGate #law #MilitaryLaw #military #OpSec #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Signal #HouthiPCsmallGroup #Pentagon #Defense #DoD #idiocracy #kakistocracy #USpol
(DIR) Post #B0uZlDx4WDN5cQj76u by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-12-04T17:17:33Z
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Hegseth’s written answers to the #Pentagon #InspectorGeneral made 3 points, the report said.1) #Hegseth acknowledged that he had received information about upcoming war plans on March 14 from #US #CENTCOM.2) he asserted that as #defense secy “he has authority to decide whether information should be #classified & whether classified materials no longer require protection.”#Trump #SignalGate #law #MilitaryLaw #military #OpSec #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Signal #DoD #idiocracy #kakistocracy
(DIR) Post #B0uZqzwPWTYlu3Adma by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-12-04T17:18:36Z
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3) #Hegseth said he had taken “‘non-specific general details’ that he determined, as an original classification authority, were either not #classified or that he could safely declassify & use to create an ‘unclassified summary’ to provide to the #Signal chat participants.”#Trump #SignalGate #law #MilitaryLaw #military #OpSec #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #HouthiPCsmallGroup #Pentagon #Defense #DoD #idiocracy #kakistocracy
(DIR) Post #B0uaLfsGBINIdxrBNQ by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-12-04T17:24:08Z
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This is the same argument #Trump made about the #ClassifiedDocuments he took Mar-a-Lago after his first term & then refused to return. He said because he was president he could just think that they were declassified, & suddenly the documents would be. Like some “I Dream of Jeannie” shit.#Hegseth #SignalGate #law #MilitaryLaw #military #OpSec #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Signal #HouthiPCsmallGroup #Pentagon #Defense #DoD #idiocracy #kakistocracy
(DIR) Post #B0uazrG9GoalXPBvwu by Lizette603_23@mastodon.social
2025-12-04T17:31:21Z
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@Nonilex Kegseth is an unreliable witness, being an alcoholic
(DIR) Post #B0ubTXWlCLAx1l7BIW by SeanPLynch@mastodon.social
2025-12-04T17:36:38Z
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@Nonilex In the real world, Pete Hegseth has never thought that many thoughts at once in his meager, alcohol impaired brain.
(DIR) Post #B0uceeez7SBSHwpFxI by WnknBlnkn_n_Nod@mastodon.social
2025-12-04T17:49:56Z
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@Nonilex SCOTUS is in the process of ruling Congress can't constrain the president (e.g., in spending or violence against residents and citizens). The unitary executive answers only to itself. If the mad king is happy with his various court jesters and executioners, who is Congress or Court to question them?
(DIR) Post #B0ucslinf494FAL9sm by Corb_The_Lesser@mastodon.social
2025-12-04T17:52:29Z
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@Nonilex Someone give me a zillion dollars and I'll bet it that Hegseth never went through that thought process before or after his Signal chat. Something a PR flack wrote for him? Oh, yes.