Posted on 05/01/2025 6:08:43 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
The Pentagon Inspector General expanded his investigation into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of the double-encrypted app Signal.
Steven Stebbins took over as Acting Inspector General after President Trump fired the previous IG and 17 other inspectors general.
Stebbins was first appointed to his position in 2015.
Pete Hegseth has been under heavy attack since before his confirmation hearing and the leaks keep coming.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
‘ Signal was approved by the DoD in 2023.’
Not completely true, and certainly not for information Hegseth shared.
https://dodcio.defense.gov/Portals/0/Documents/Library/Memo-UseOfUnclassMobileApps.pdf
Why doesn’t Pete fire the guy?
(Why doesn’t Pete fire the guy?)
Because they’d go after Pete for obstructing an active investigation.
-PJ
Or former SecDef Austin going MIA for several days?
Stebbins is a rat and therefore a crook, you just need to look. Find what he has done and destroy him.
Signal was banned by name by the DoD in 2023 for transmission of non-public information.
https://dodcio.defense.gov/Portals/0/Documents/Library/Memo-UseOfUnclassMobileApps.pdf
Unmanaged ‘messaging apps,’ including any app with a chat feature, regardless of the primary function, are NOT authorized to access, transmit, process non-public DoD information. This includes but is not limited to messaging, gaming, and social media apps. (i.e., iMessage, WhatsApps, Signal). An Exception to Policy (E2P) request must be submitted by the appropriate Component for use of an unmanaged messaging app that is critical to fulfilling mission operations at https://rmfks.osd.mil/dode2p.
Signal was banned by name by the DoD in 2023 for transmission of non-public information.
https://dodcio.defense.gov/Portals/0/Documents/Library/Memo-UseOfUnclassMobileApps.pdf
Unmanaged ‘messaging apps,’ including any app with a chat feature, regardless of the primary function, are NOT authorized to access, transmit, process non-public DoD information. This includes but is not limited to messaging, gaming, and social media apps. (i.e., iMessage, WhatsApps, Signal). An Exception to Policy (E2P) request must be submitted by the appropriate Component for use of an unmanaged messaging app that is critical to fulfilling mission operations at https://rmfks.osd.mil/dode2p.
The “information Hegseth shared” was a nothing burger.
You and your Reddit buddies undoubtedly know that.
You one of Fuzz’s Reddit buddies?
‘ The “information Hegseth shared” was a nothing burger.’
He put information shared to him from a general over a secure channel over a commercial non secure channel that included timing and targets while the operation was underway.
‘You and your Reddit buddies undoubtedly know that.’
I have no idea what you are talking about here. I don’t use Reddit, nor do I understand the criticism.
“Signal was banned by name by the DoD in 2023 for transmission of non-public information.”
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I read the memo you linked to; however CISA “muddied the waters” if not out-and-out contradicted that guidance under Biden in Dec 2024 (note that date!):
Everyone else here on FR knows what I’m talking about.
‘ Everyone else here on FR knows what I’m talking about.’
👍
Go with that.
Interesting how you completely ignored:
‘The “information Hegseth shared” was a nothing burger.’
He put information shared to him from a general over a secure channel over a commercial non secure channel that included timing and targets while the operation was underway.
Didn’t think BS worth replying to.
If the information in the chat was classified, sensitive or any sort of national security risk Goldberg wouldn’t have published the chat in the Atlantic.
‘ If the information in the chat was classified, sensitive or any sort of national security risk Goldberg wouldn’t have published the chat in the Atlantic.’
First, he did that after the administration said it was all fine.
Second, since when is a journalist the arbiter of what is classified or not?
Because it was all fine.
Second, since when is a journalist the arbiter of what is classified or not?
Since journalists hate to be put in prison for publishing classified info. Self preservation is a helluva motivator.
He put information shared to him from a general over a secure channel over a commercial non secure channel that included timing and targets while the operation was underway.
None of which would have been useful to the targets even if they had read it in real time.
You really are extraordinarily dense.
‘ None of which would have been useful to the targets even if they had read it in real time.’
Based on what? The information or the capabilities of the target?
‘You really are extraordinarily dense.’
Well, that’s true. You’re the smart one. Everyone knows that.
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