The leakage of the military chat was stupid, but Pete Heget’s refusals are more dumb

Thehe The episode of leakage of a military chat– In which details of a recent bombing, they were sent by the Secretary of Defense Pete Heget to manage the Atlantic Ocean editor, Jeffrey Goldberg – must be one of the most ridiculous fucking in the White House of all time. Of course, instead of admitting that they have made a mistake, Heget and his government allies have created a series of increasingly ridiculous arguments in an attempt to justify the incident. At the same time, Heget has tried to attack and demonize Goldberg and the Atlantic to simply report the information that Heget himself sent to the journalist.

On Wednesday heget took in x to say that The second history of the Atlantic has shown that it has not released any “military plans”, the meaning being that Goldberg is some kind of amounted. Heget rails: “So, let me understand this. The Atlantic Ocean has released the so -called” military plans “and these” plans “include: No names. There are no goals. There are no places. There are no units. There are no routes. There are no sources. There are no methods. And there is no classified information. These are some really shit military plans, “he said.” This proves only one thing: Jeff Goldberg has never seen a war plan or a “attack plan” (as he now calls it). It’s not even close. “

Hegt is complicated Linguistic analysis For the difference between “war” and “attack” (because an apparent military “attack” with bombs is not an act of war) takes place parallel to Another statement about the contact made by his supporters. This statement suggests that heget, as DOD, is ultimately responsible for what is classified and what is not and that the information that was shared with a prominent journalist has not increased to the level of government secrets. Hegt also has Downloaded questions Whether the signal chat consisted of personal (as opposed to the government issued) telephones is something that security professionals are worried about, as personal phones are much more cheeky than governmental ones. “Nobody sends text military plans,” Heget recently told a journalist who asked about the phones. “I know exactly what I’m doing,” he said, adding, “I’m really proud of what I have achieved.”

Meanwhile, right -wing influences such as Ian Miles Coong have justified why the real guilt for the incident should be placed on the media, not a heget. “The signal is called the” gold standard “for encrypted committees. Not only from security experts, but also by the Atlantic itself. Clinton and the Obama Administration used it, “Cheong Recently written on xS “Suddenly this is a problem that Trump’s people use it? I don’t buy it.” Yes, although it is true that the signal is considered a really good app for the confidentiality of citizens, it is for civilians, not the leaders of the most powerful military in the world, which are regularly directed by foreign agents. Its group chat function is the most susceptible element of hacking, as it is most easily overcome by social engineering, stupidity, or whatever Michael Waltz, who claims to have happened when he adds a magazine’s editor to military chat.

The full defense of the heget seems to be inconsistent in the best case and directly divorced from reality in the least case. On the one hand, it seems clear that some of the chat information was – or it had to be classified. Congress members seem to believe that this is the current Pentagon employee Interviewed by CNN He claims the same. “These are operational plans that are highly classified to protect members of the service,” said an anonymous source, describing as an employee of US Defense. “It’s safe to say that everyone in the uniform will be judged for it,” they added. How outrageous was the failure of group chat operational security? The same unnamed employee stated that even his “junior analysts know not to do so.”

Hell, a former Trump employee claims that the information is classified. Mick Merry, described as the best Pentagon employee for the Middle East policy during the first Trump administration, They said at military times: “This information was clearly taken from the order of the combat sequence in real time of current operation. It is highly classified and protected.”

In fact, in a situation that is already completely dumb, heget’s insistence that he has done nothing wrong, it just makes him look more. Indeed, if this is a normal chain of events, why does heget do not make Goldberg a constant attachment in all before bombing IC chats? It can be a column for the Atlantic: “Here and where America will bomb!” And Americans can adjust to read about upcoming air campaigns in the bombs before the bombs are dropped. Maybe the government can partner with Wikileaks and release text messages in real time, so Americans (and, you know, the rest of the world) are on the same page when an American military operation took place.

Other participants in Fiasco for chat were put into an explosion on Wednesday during Hearing the Home Intelligence CommitteeS The most important thing is that the new National Intelligence Director, Tulsi Gabbard, continued to answer questions about the incident and thus did not come up with a particularly appropriate role for her role. During a certain back and forth with Congress Jim Hims (D-Connecticut), Gabard revealed that (unless it is, you know, a liar), she has a shockingly bad memory for a person who is now charged to watch the entire American intelligence community.

Himes questioned Gabard Why, during a separate hearing in the congress, which took place on Tuesday, she testified that she did not think the conversation had included specific information about the packages, goals or time of US weapons. She replied, “My answer yesterday was based on my memory or its lack.”

Himez: “So this is your testimony that less than two weeks ago you are in a signal chat that has all this information about the F-18 and MQ-9 Reapers and the goals of the strike, and you, in this two-week period, just forgot that it was there? This is your testimony?”

Gabard: “My testimony is that I didn’t remember the exact details of what was included there.”

Himes: “This was not your testimony. Your certificate was that you were not aware of anything related to packages, goals and weapons time.”

Then Gabard replied that she did not “remember the exact wording” she used in the hearing from the previous day. In other words: it seems that Gabard has problems remembering things that have happened for several days (or even hours) in the past.

Meanwhile the government is now Team To find out how Goldberg was added to the group chat, despite the fact that screenshots of messages posted by Goldberg (who were verified as authentic by the National Security Council) seems to be clearly show that Goldberg has been added to chat by National Security Advisor Michael Waltz. Instead of admitting this, the White House has already assigned to waltz, with Piercing what happenedS Added to the investigative team is the National Security Council, the White House Service and the Dog Musk team because, you know, they have they You’ve never done anything stupidS