And incredible hypocrites considering that they, to an individual, all screamed holy heck about “teh emailz” a decade ago.
I also feel the fact that Hegseth fired a bunch of military leaders because they might _hypothetically_ be incompetent because they were women and minorities and might possibly have gotten the job that way is relevant. And how he repeatedly emphasized that, from now, it was all about competence, pure competence, not any sort of affirmative action.
You know what Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. did not do? Discuss upcoming military operations on unsecured channel.
4. President Trump _isn't_ in this chat (Or, rather, the chat they should be having over a different, secure communication system), and instead this chat consists of people trying to guess what he wants them to do. This by itself should be a scandal, but 'This by itself should be a scandal' is basically the motto of the Trump administration.
5. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, aka, the military leader that exists to advise the executive on military action, isn't in the chat either.
This attack leveled apartments and killed civilians to attempt to kill someone that the US did not like, a thing which the Chairman of the Joint Chief might have had something to say about the legality of under the laws of war. That's literally part of his job. Because you're supposed to use the method of attack that uses the least collateral damage, and he might have been able to suggest another. I am not saying this attack was not legal, I don't really know enough about it to weigh in, but that sort of question is exactly why you include people in a discussion who understand that question and can weigh in on it legally, and is almost certainly why he was _not_ consulted.
Now, this is theoretically less of a scandal, because he could have hypothetically been looped in elsewhere. We have no idea where the plans came from.
But...we all know he wasn't. Hegseth literally came out and said the military was going to stop caring about civilian casualties a month ago, it's why he fired the JAG lawyers.
4 weeks ago
There has been a lawsuit filed over this over and claims it violated Federal record keeping laws (Which it objectively does).
It was randomly assigned to Judge Boasberg. You know, the judge that the Trump administration is trying to insist it is a state secret when an airplane took off and landed, despite it being a commercially chartered flight that Trump administration literally took pictures of and announced the landing of.
I also feel the fact that Hegseth fired a bunch of military leaders because they might _hypothetically_ be incompetent because they were women and minorities and might possibly have gotten the job that way is relevant. And how he repeatedly emphasized that, from now, it was all about competence, pure competence, not any sort of affirmative action.
You know what Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. did not do? Discuss upcoming military operations on unsecured channel.
If we're talking about _competence_.
4. President Trump _isn't_ in this chat (Or, rather, the chat they should be having over a different, secure communication system), and instead this chat consists of people trying to guess what he wants them to do. This by itself should be a scandal, but 'This by itself should be a scandal' is basically the motto of the Trump administration.
5. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, aka, the military leader that exists to advise the executive on military action, isn't in the chat either.
This attack leveled apartments and killed civilians to attempt to kill someone that the US did not like, a thing which the Chairman of the Joint Chief might have had something to say about the legality of under the laws of war. That's literally part of his job. Because you're supposed to use the method of attack that uses the least collateral damage, and he might have been able to suggest another. I am not saying this attack was not legal, I don't really know enough about it to weigh in, but that sort of question is exactly why you include people in a discussion who understand that question and can weigh in on it legally, and is almost certainly why he was _not_ consulted.
Now, this is theoretically less of a scandal, because he could have hypothetically been looped in elsewhere. We have no idea where the plans came from.
But...we all know he wasn't. Hegseth literally came out and said the military was going to stop caring about civilian casualties a month ago, it's why he fired the JAG lawyers.
There has been a lawsuit filed over this over and claims it violated Federal record keeping laws (Which it objectively does).
It was randomly assigned to Judge Boasberg. You know, the judge that the Trump administration is trying to insist it is a state secret when an airplane took off and landed, despite it being a commercially chartered flight that Trump administration literally took pictures of and announced the landing of.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/signal-lawsuit-trump-judge-boasberg-00250606