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"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s personal phone number, the one used in a recent Signal chat, was easily accessible on the internet and public apps as recently as March, potentially exposing national security secrets to foreign adversaries.

The phone number could be found in a variety of places, including WhatsApp, Facebook and a fantasy sports site. It was the same number through which the defense secretary, using the Signal commercial messaging app, disclosed flight data for American strikes on the Houthi militia in Yemen.

Cybersecurity analysts said an American defense secretary’s communications device would usually be among the most protected national security assets.

“There’s zero percent chance that someone hasn’t tried to install Pegasus or some other spyware on his phone,” Mike Casey, the former director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said in an interview. “He is one of the top five, probably, most targeted people in the world for espionage.”

Emily Harding, a defense and security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, added: “You just don’t want the secretary of defense’s phone number to be out there and available to anyone.”"

nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/poli

Pete Hegseth during the Easter Egg Roll at the White House on Monday. His personal phone number could be found on the internet as recently as March.
The New York Times · Hegseth’s Personal Phone Use Created VulnerabilitiesBy Helene Cooper
#USA#Trump#Pentagon
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@stevebenen
What a nightmare! I assume he needs this for the new fascists' ugliness-fashion? salon.com/2025/03/24/from-mar-

Here in Europe, the first satire and fiction writers give up inventing utterly crazy story plots because the US reality tops the weirdest ideas after 5 minutes at the latest.

May the perfect face powder prevent this failed state from ever playing with access to nuclear weapons! 🥶 Idea for France: extra #tariffs on #cosmetics!

Salon.com · "Mar-a-Lago" face: Why MAGA's gone ugly

@remixtures

"Congressman Adam Smith, ranking member on the Armed Services committee, even told Anderson Cooper yesterday that Trump’s new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine “seems like a decent person, but he’s [only] a three star general,” to give you a sense of that world’s obsession with rank."

This has nothing to do with a breathless expose of a "military takeover of the Pentagon"

It has entirely to do with people from an --> authentic <-- military background, and people with --> authentic <-- military experience being deeply concerned that #Hegseth is nothing more than an #Alcoholic #FOXNews talking head who fell up into the position of #SecretaryOfDefense because he was willing to kiss #Trump's ...

... ring on demand

Also #KenKlippenstein is a widely known reactionary, here trying to cosplay concern about military control of the entire #Pentagon

He's a known fraud

"We have a civilian in charge of the military (with the president as “commander-in-chief”) to ensure that the military is accountable to the people and their elected representatives, not to the whims of those in uniform. “If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military,” President Harry Truman once said. The general and admirals don’t get to decide their priorities, or their budget, or even their own terms of service.

As Secretary of Defense, Hegseth is supposed to embody civilian control of the military, a civilian who oversees the Pentagon, not a part of it. Yet his office has been all but hollowed out in recent days, with five of his top aides being mysteriously drummed out."

kenklippenstein.com/p/is-a-mil

Ken Klippenstein · Is a Military Coup Unfolding at the Pentagon?By Ken Klippenstein

NPR Exclusive: #Trump White House looking to replace #PeteHegseth as defense secretary

The #WhiteHouse has begun the process of looking for a new leader at the #Pentagon to replace #Hegseth, according to a US official who was not authorized to speak publicly. This comes as Hegseth is AGAIN mired in controversy over sharing #military operational details in a group chat.

#NationalSecurity #OpSec #InfoSec #law
npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-53713

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It’s not just that #GOP lawmakers are not calling for #PeteHegseth’s ouster (with one notable exception); it’s that they don’t even seem interested in getting to the bottom of the readily apparent discord in the #Pentagon.

And perhaps most tellingly, #Republican elected officials have again shown almost no interest in asserting themselves even as the situation entails one of the gravest issues under their purview, #NationalSecurity.

LOL - Total Idiocracy: "It's possible that the White House may be looking to replace Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after critics warned that a pair of controversial Signal chats risked compromising US national security.

In March, it was revealed that Hegseth accidentally texted secret bombing plans in a Signal chat that included a reporter, raising alarms about his handling of sensitive military information. And then this weekend, The New York Times revealed that he similarly shared the attack plans, just minutes after learning of them, in a personal Signal chat that included his wife and brother.

That second revelation sparked a "full-blown meltdown" at the Pentagon, The Guardian reported, apparently prompting the Trump administration to begin "the process of looking for a new secretary of defense," a US official granted anonymity told NPR Monday."

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Ars Technica · White House plagued by Signal controversy as Pentagon in “full-blown meltdown”By Ashley Belanger
#USA#Trump#Pentagon