All posts tagged "War Plans"

Some Pentagon officials seem willing and able to leak sensitive information about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's shortcomings and failures — and it's creating scandals just as hefty as Signalgate, according to a new article with MSNBC.

Columnist Steve Benen wrote Monday that some defense insiders are ignoring the Trump administration's chief of staff Susie Wiles' directive against leaks to the media.

Even after the revelations last week that detailed war plans about a bomb run on Houthi rebels in Yemen were shared in a Signal chat, "things managed to go from bad to worse for the scandal-plagued former Fox News personality," Benen wrote....

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who's in the middle of the Signal messaging app scandal that inadvertently revealed an impending military strike to a journalist, made an angry post on social media Wednesday once again denying that "war plans" were revealed.

"So, let’s me get this straight," Hegseth began on Wednesday.

"The Atlantic released the so-called 'war plans' and those 'plans' include: No names. No targets. No locations. No units. No routes. No sources. No methods. And no classified information. Those are some really s----y war plans."...