Hegseth Says He Shared Attack Plans on Unsecured Chats for 'Media Coordination' - and no, I don't believe a word of this
Source: The Rolling Stone
Hegseth Says He Shared Attack Plans on Unsecured Chats for ‘Media Coordination’
Nikki McCann Ramirez
Tue, April 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM EDT 3 min read
Embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during a Fox News interview on Tuesday morning that he has been sharing military attack plans on Signal “for media coordination and other things,” claiming the plans were “informal.”
On Sunday, The New York Times reported on the existence of a second Signal chat — titled “Defense | Team Huddle” — in which Hegseth shared highly sensitive air strike plans against Houthi rebels in Yemen. The chat included his brother and Department of Homeland Security Adviser Phil Hegseth, his personal lawyer, and his wife Jennifer Rauchet, a Fox News producer with no official government position. The revelation comes weeks after Hegseth shared those same plans in another chat into which Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg had inadvertently been added, leading to a firestorm of controversy around Hegseth’s recklessness.
Hegseth told Fox & Friends on Monday that this was all “old stuff,” claiming that “no one is texting war plans.” While Hegseth may be relying heavily on the technical definition of “war” to excuse himself, he went on to discuss sharing the strike plans.
“I’m in the bowels of the Pentagon every single day. Just 10 minutes ago, I was looking at actual war plans — of things that were ongoing or pending to happen,” Hegseth said. “What was shared over Signal, then and now, however you characterize it, was informal unclassified coordinations for media coordination and other things.”
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