Did you know that United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is a member of Sleeper.com, a fantasy football betting site? Or that he thinks the staff of some random dental office is “amazing”? We shouldn’t know, but we do thanks to Hegseth’s messy digital habits. In a continuation of “Signalgate”, new reports indicate that […]
Even a Republican Congressman Is Turning on Pete Hegseth After Signalgate 2.0
Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary, is on the ropes. Over the weekend, the New York Times reported that Hegseth had been involved in yet another texting scandal involving the encrypted chat app Signal. Then, on Monday, NPR reported that the administration was looking to replace Hegseth. However, not long after the public broadcaster’s […]
DoD Inspector General Says He’s Looking Into SignalGate
The noise from SignalGate has apparently become too much to ignore. On Thursday, the Defense Department inspector general’s office announced that it will take a look at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal to organize, with other members of the Trump administration, a military operation in Yemen that reportedly killed at least 53 people. […]
Trump Regime Used Gmail Accounts to Discuss Sensitive Plans: Report
Top national security officials at the White House, including national security advisor Michael Waltz, have sometimes been using regular Gmail accounts to discuss highly sensitive military operations, according to a new report from the Washington Post. Gmail is not end-to-end encrypted like more secure government systems available to officials like Waltz and can be intercepted […]
The Pentagon Sent Out a Warning Against Using Signal Right Before Yemen Group Chat Fiasco
The Pentagon warned against using Signal in a memo just last week, according to NPR. It cited threats from Russian hackers. The memo was delivered department-wide days before The Atlantic published a bombshell revelation that its editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg had been erroneously added to a Signal group chat that involved detailed discussions of planned strikes […]
Trump’s Defense Secretary Accidentally Texted Yemen War Plans to the Head Editor of The Atlantic
Journalists often dream of finding the right government leaker who can share with them detailed information about the internal workings of the federal government. Few journalists would presume, however, that the ideal leaker might, in fact, be the head of the U.S. Armed Services. That appears to have been what happened, when the U.S. Secretary […]
Elon Musk Goes to the Pentagon as Trump Insists He’s Not Being Briefed on China War Plans
Elon Musk, the billionaire oligarch and defense contractor, had a meeting with top officials at the Pentagon on Friday. And while two major newspapers reported late Thursday that Musk would be given a briefing on closely guarded secrets about any potential war with China, it sounds like that part didn’t happen after all. But Musk […]
Why Elon Musk and Trump Won’t Break Up Any Time Soon
Elon Musk is currently dismantling the U.S. federal government in an oligarchic coup, aided by President Donald Trump, an ongoing threat to the safety and security of the United States. The two billionaires claim to be battling “fraud” and “waste,” when it’s abundantly clear they’re just getting rid of federal agencies and programs they don’t […]
Trump Says He Wants to ‘Denuclearize’ as European Countries Grow Concerned About Alliances
President Donald Trump said he’d like the U.S. to “denuclearize” along with Russia and China, with the goal of cutting America’s military budget in half. The comments come as government officials in Europe were reportedly alarmed over Trump’s recent comments about the war between Russia and Ukraine. Trump made the remarks about his plans for […]
Man in Charge of Coastal Military Installations Says DOD Doesn’t Care About Climate Change
Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News host and current defense secretary, is currently in Germany visiting U.S. troops overseas and spoke with reporters on Tuesday about a range of topics, from America’s military presence in Africa to potential cuts at the Pentagon. But it was Hegseth’s comments on climate change that are raising the most […]