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The Final Nail in Pete Hegseth's Coffin? [1]
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Date: 2025-04-23
If this doesn’t administer the quintessential coup de grace to Hegseth’s tenure as Secretary of Defense, I’m not sure what could at this point. From Raw Story:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the Signal messaging app installed on his desktop computer in the Pentagon to circumvent poor cell service in the building, according to a new report in The Washington Post, which cited three people familiar with the matter.
Seriously?!?
The Post report said Hegseth "effectively 'cloned' the Signal app on his personal cellphone" following talks between Hegseth and his advisers on "how they could circumvent the lack of cellphone service in much of the Pentagon and more quickly coordinate with the White House and other top Trump officials using the encrypted app." By installing Signal onto his desktop, Hegseth created a "workaround" to use the app in a classified area — where his cellphone and other personal devices are banned — to easily communicate with other government officials or his family, according to the report.
Bolding mine — this guy is an absolute walking, talking disaster of a security risk!
To boot, Hegseth had the app installed on a second computer in his office and expressed interest in installing a program that would allow him to send out text messages from the Pentagon, according to the report. Sean Parnell, a spokesman for Hegseth, told the newspaper in a statement that Hegseth “never used and does not currently use Signal on his government computer.” The Pentagon chief's use of communications systems and channels is also classified.
Why do I seem to have such a difficult time believing anything coming from Sean Parnell?
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