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Peter Hegseth, the US Secretary of Defense
Amazing and shock are the right words to define the feeling of many security experts with the serious failure of high -administration of Donald Trump, who shared military plans in a messaging app, in a group where they added a journalist unintentionally.
The National Security Counselor of the President of the United States, Mike Waltz, has already assumed that he was the one who created the group in rede social Signalfor discussion of, and which included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine and recognized for coverage of national security issues.
Waltz suggested, in an interview with Fox News station, that he may have saved the journalist number on his phone, thinking that it belonged to another person.
Jeffrey Goldberg has published a long article on The Atlantic, in which he detailed the impressions among the high -federal US responsible on a plan of a plan of MILITARY ATTACK TO THE HUTHIS REBELS No, in a group of the digital service service service, to which it was added by mistake.
It is a huge US safety failurewhich is being widely criticized in democratic circles.
A White House confirmed authenticity The chain of messaging revealed by the journalist, but also stated that no confidential information had not been revealed.
Jeffrey Goldberg assured that he did not publish a lot of information he had access to, considering that they put US national security at risk.
The journalist also revealed that the CIA director shared in the conversation, the Name of a secret agent From the intelligence agency, noting that he omitted this data because she works “under disguise”.
Tim Miller: “There was a covert CIA operative named in the thread, right?”
Jeffrey Goldberg: “Yes, and I withheld her name… I didn’t put it in the story because she’s under cover. But, I mean, the CIA Director put it into the chat.”
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Was the defense secretary “only incompetent or drunk”?
In the midst of the whirlwind of criticism, one should, after all, be held responsible for the slip, while several experts emphasize that it is the safety of US troops at stake.
Already the politician democrata Seth Moultona Veteran of the US Marine Corps and Massachusetts representative in the House of Representatives, stressed that, at this moment, the political debate around national security is about “If the Secretary [da Defesa] It was just incompetent or if it was drunk ”.
The reference aims directly, the former political commentator and former veteran who was chosen by Trump to supervise the armed forces and guide the country’s military policy, thus performing a critical role in defense from the US.
. on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: “Now the debate among national security professionals is over whether the secretary was just incompetent or whether he was drunk.”
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In the past, Hegseth was accused of having problems with the Excessive alcohol consumptionwith reports of alleged inadequate behaviors in work environments and social events.
But the current secretary of defense has always denied these allegations, although he recognized that after leaving military service, he consumed alcohol, occasionally, to deal with emotional difficulties.
Hegseth “should be immediately fired”
There are those who argue that Pete Hegseth should be thisuntil after it was so vehement, when he was a commentator, to suggest that he should be “farewell” and accused criminally for sending confidential information on emails.
Now is the governor of the state of Illinois, JB Pritzker, elected by the Democrats, who argues that Hegseth “should be immediately fired for putting the military and national security at risk”, also considering that “is not qualified to be secretary of defense“.
Donald Trump minimized the situation and considered that it was “A small failure”.
The US President also stressed that he was “In two months” of your administration.
