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Secret #Pentagon memo on #China, #HomelandSecurity has #HeritageFoundation fingerprints

An internal guidance memo from #Defense Secy #PeteHegseth focuses on deterring China’s seizure of #Taiwan & shoring up homeland defense. In some instances, the document is nearly a word-for-word facsimile of a report from the conservative think tank behind #Project2025.

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#Republicans in the #House hearing are mostly ignoring the #Signal chat. Rep #DanCrenshaw, Republican of Texas, was one of the few to even bring it up.

“I will note I always use fire emojis when I see terrorists getting killed,” he said.

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#TulsiGabbard said the release of the additional screenshots by #TheAtlantic today “were a refresher on what happened.” But she said she stood by her responses to the #Senate yesterday, when she said she did not recall that the #Signal chat included the timing or order of the strikes on the #Houthis.

Earlier, Rep #JimmyGonez reminded them they’d been in office for less than 2 months & this all took place just 10 days ago.

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#TulsiGabbard said she didn’t play a “specific role” in the #Signal chat because she was traveling. But she also pushed a new defense. The material presented in the chat, she said, was being shared w/regional allies at the same time as it was being shared w/cabinet members. “The decision to conduct this operation had been made long before that conversation took place,” she said.

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“I do take my responsibility very seriously, & played an integral role in providing the #intelligence communities assessments that led to the ultimate decision by the president to conduct an operation which, by the way, was very successful & continues to be very successful,” #Gabbard said.

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#Trump will hold a news conference at 4PM, the White House press secretary announced.

The only thing I can predict is that it will be painful to watch.

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Sen #AdamSchiff, D-CA, is requesting information from Dir of Natl #Intelligence #TulsiGabbard & US Special Envoy #SteveWitkoff about whether they used #Signal on personal devices as part of their jobs & is questioning whether the 2 were abroad during the chat involving #TheAtlantic's #JeffreyGoldberg.

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Asked if the info shared in the #Signal chat was classified, #Rubio said, "Well, the #Pentagon says it was not. And not only did they said it was not, they made very clear that it didn’t put in danger anyone’s life or the mission. There was no intelligence information. And understand, when this story first broke, they were sort of alluding to, were there war maps? ... There were no war plans on there."

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“The American people see through the Atlantic’s pathetic attempts to distract from President #Trump’s #NationalSecurity agenda.”

Several retired military commanders have pushed back on the claims that the details in #PeteHegseth’s messages were not classified.

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#JasonCrow showed the advanced air defense systems the #Houthis have, & then said it was outrageous that the #Trump admin was not accepting responsibility for the leak. “It is a leadership failure, & that’s why Secretary #Hegseth, who undoubtedly transmitted #classified sensitive operational information via this chain, must #resign immediately,” he said.

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Rep #JasonCrow, #Democrat of Colorado, asked #TulsiGabbard if she was traveling during the time of the attack & the #Signal discussion. She said she was traveling in Asia, but did not recall what country.

Crow made the point that the #Houthis have been able to shoot down U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones, one of the weapons used in the strike on #Yemen & got #Gabbard to say she knew Houthis had that capability.

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In the #intelligence hearing, Rep #JoaquinCastro, #Democrat of Texas, took issue with the intelligence officials saying the information in the #Signal chat on the #Houthi strikes was not #classified. “You all know that’s a lie,” he said. “It’s a lie to the country.”

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#Ratcliffe said the #CIA officer he had added to the #Signal chat was his chief of staff, who is not serving under cover. While he chastised #TheAtlantic for making it look as if he had revealed #classified information by including the name, the magazine said it had withheld the name at the urging of the agency. The CIA typically asks that the names of most of its officers be kept secret to preserve their ability to serve overseas in undercover roles in the future.

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John #Ratcliffe, the #CIA director, said the newly released portions of the chat show that he did not share #classified information there. “My answers haven’t changed,” he said. “I used an appropriate channel to communicate sensitive information. It was permissible to do so. I didn’t transfer any classified information.”

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Himes hammered away on the idea that the timing of the attacks was #classified as “#TopSecret” under #intelligence community rules. #Gabbard said she didn’t disagree but reiterated that material was posted to the chat by Secy of #Defense #PeteHegseth, & that he is in charge of declassifying material from the #Pentagon.

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Rep #JimHimes, the top #Democrat on the #House #Intelligence Committee, asked #TulsiGabbard, the director of national intelligence, about her testimony on Tues that precise details about the attack were not included in the chat, given the new release of messages that contradict that. “My answer yesterday was based on my recollection, or the lack thereof, on the details that were posted there,” she said.

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"There were no sources, methods, locations or war plans that were shared," she claimed. "This was a standard update to the #NationalSecurity cabinet that was provided alongside updates that were given to foreign partners in the region."

#Gabbard also said that #Signal is pre-installed on government devices. (wtf?)

She referred to a pending lawsuit as a reason why she would be “limited” in commenting further on the issue.

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"#NationalSecurity advisor has taken full responsibility for this, & the National Security Council is conducting an in-depth review, along w/technical experts working to determine how this reporter was inadvertently added to this chat," #Gabbard testified this morning.

#TulsiGabbard maintained that #classified info was not shared, but called the conversation "candid & sensitive."
#law #SignalGate #Signal #idiocracy #kakistocracy #JDVance #Hegseth #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #StephenMiller

#Waltz, in an interview w/ FauxNews Tues night, said a staffer wasn’t responsible & that he was taking “full responsibility” & that he made a “mistake.” But he insisted that #JeffreyGoldberg’s number had been erroneously added to someone else’s contact.

“I built the group,” Waltz said. “My job is to make sure everything’s coordinated.”

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Director of National #Intelligence #TulsiGabbard, #FBI Director #KashPatel & #CIA Director #JohnRatcliffe are testifying before the #House Intelligence Cmte again Wed amid fallout over senior #Trump national officials sharing messages about a #military strike over an unsecured group chat w/ #TheAtlantic’s #JeffreyGoldberg.

#Gabbard addressed the #Signal fiasco in opening remarks, referring to #Waltz’s previous comments & noting that he has “taken full responsibility.”

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#EdwardCoristine is among the most visible members of the #DOGE effort that has been given sweeping access to official networks as it attempts to radically downsize the U.S. government.

Past reporting had focused on his youth - he is 19 - and his chosen nickname of "#BigBalls," which became a pop culture punchline. #Musk has championed the teen on his social media site X, telling his followers last month that "Big Balls is awesome."

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