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I defer to the Secretary of Defense and the National Security Council on that question.”
Asked if such information should be classified, Gabbard told the committee Nobody was texting war plans and that’s all I have to say about that,
Hegseth told reporters when asked why those details were inadvertently shared with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, after landing at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii I can again confirm that with respect to the communications that were related as to me, there was no classified information,
They testified — correct me if I’m wrong — there’s no intelligence community classified information,
With respect to the assertions and the allegations that there was strike packages or targeting information or things that relate to DOD, as I pointed out, the Secretary of Defense is the original classification authority for determining whether something is classified or not, and as I’ve understood from media reports, the Secretary of Defense has said the information was not classified,
One of the first things that happened when I was confirmed as CIA director was Signal was loaded onto my computer at the CIA, as it is for most CIA officers,
Make no mistake, these actions make America less safe,
This is just a normal day at the CIA, where we chat about this kind of stuff over Signal. In fact, it’s so normal that the last administration left it here for us,
the Colorado senator said This is utterly unprofessional. There’s been no apology. There has been no recognition of the gravity of this error,
You’re the CIA director. Why didn’t you call out that [Goldberg] was present on the Signal thread?”
I think this is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified information,
the committee’s vice-chair Mark Warner said The discussion that took place in that Signal chat group was a conversation reflecting national security leaders and the vice-president around the president’s objectives,
she later said, while declining to answer if she would have approved details of such a conversation to be revealed publicly, or if she was using a personal or work phone to participate in the group Why aren't you going to get into the specifics? Is it because it's all classified?"
Director Gabbard, did you participate in a group chat with the Secretary of Defense and other senior Trump officials discussing Yemen war plans?"
The Social Security administrator nominee needs to come clean with the American people. Is he in favor of the cuts that Elon Musk and his DOGE boys are trying to execute at the Social Security Administration? Or does he plan, once he has the power, to put a stop to it? Is he in favor of the privatization of Social Security that many Republicans are still advancing? Or does he plan to make a stand and put a stop to it? That’s what I want to hear from him,
Putting aside for a moment that classified information should never be discussed over an unclassified system, it's also just mind-boggling to me that all these senior folks were on this line, and nobody bothered even to check,
Warner said, referring to Goldberg having been included in the discussion This annual threat assessment has been focused very directly on the threats that we deem most critical to the United States and our national security,
These new developments leave us deeply concerned that DOGE and the Trump Administration are setting up the SSA for failure — a failure that could cut off Social Security benefits for millions of Americans — and that will then be used to justify a 'private sector fix.' Republicans have flirted with the idea of privatizing Social Security for over two decades,
the senators wrote in the letter To be clear, I haven't participated in any Signal group messaging that relates to any classified information at all,
I know the incoming chancellor of Germany has talked about the possibility that Germany might share its nuclear weapons with Ukraine, and suggested that the U.K. would be part of that,
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