From CNN:
"1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package)”
1345: ‘Trigger Based’ F-18 1st Strike Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME – also, Strike Drones Launch (MQ-9s)”
1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package)”
1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier ‘Trigger Based’ targets)”
1536 F-18 2nd Strike Starts – also, first sea-based Tomahawks launched.”
“If this information — particularly the exact times American aircraft were taking off for Yemen — had fallen into the wrong hands in that crucial two-hour period, American pilots and other American personnel could have been exposed to even greater danger than they ordinarily would face,” Goldberg and Harris wrote.
National security adviser Mike Waltz later texted to confirm that the target was in a building that collapsed and the strike was successful.
“The first target – their top missile guy – we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed,” Waltz wrote at 2 p.m. ET.
And later in the day, Hegseth confirmed to the group that more strikes were coming.
“Great job all. More strikes ongoing for hours tonight, and will provide full initial report tomorrow. But on time, on target, and good readouts so far,” he said.
The release of the messages appeared to undercut Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s testimony on Tuesday, where she said it was to her knowledge that weapons packages, targets and timing weren’t part of the conversations in the Signal chat.
Gabbard on Wednesday doubled down on the administration’s insistence that no classified information was shared in the now-infamous chat.
“The conversation was candid and sensitive, but as the president, National Security Advisor stated, no classified information was shared,” Gabbard told the House Intelligence Committee. “There were no sources, methods, locations or war plans that were shared. This was a standard update to the national security cabinet that was provided alongside updates that were given to foreign partners in the region.”
She also said Hegseth was ultimately responsible for deciding what in that conversation should or should not have been classified: “Ultimately, the Secretary of Defense holds the authority to classify or declassify.”
Goldberg said on Wednesday the magazine decided to redact a sensitive piece of information out of their follow-up article.
“We did redact one piece of information because we felt, on our own, that we felt it was best to do. And the CIA asked us, but, you know, at a certain point, the administration is saying that there’s nothing classified or secret or sensitive in these so at a certain point, I just felt, you know, let our readers decide for themselves,” he said on MSNBC of the decision to publish the rest of the information...
From CNN
From The New Democrats yesterday:
"Before I get into the important point of what I want to say here, I have to say hearing a story like this, about these group of people, who were caught redhanded sharing military secrets, over a private phone... it's not funny. But if 1 of your goals in life is to be the world champion of hypocrisy, this would be a great start: "Damn, these people are serious hypocrites. I got nothing on them. They can have the world title... if they want it that badly".
As Jessica Tarlov said... and they weren't called MAGA back in 2014 when Hillary Clinton's email story broke, but these are the same people culturally and ideologically, who were accusing HRC of not being trustworthy to protect our national security secrets...
From The New Democrat
From The New Democrat today:
"So Ben Meiselas and ABC News do a very good job of laying out all the MAGA lies about Group Chat Gate from the Trump Administration. But Ron Filipkowski pretty much sums up their main problem here in 1 sentence:
"You would think that people who lie so much would be better at it by now from all the practice."
And if you are someone who just doesn't love political history, but Hollywood political history films... there's a great line from Hal Holbrook (who played Deepthroat in All The President' Men in 1976) where he's talking to Bob Woodward (played by Robert Redford) about the Watergate burglars and the people in The White House whose job was to cover up the Watergate and the Plummers mess created by President Richard Nixon and his loyalists:
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand...
From The New Democrat
I guess my first response here is and from the way Don Lemon reads Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's texts here... the Secretary sounds like a frat boy, who just got approved to a fraternity, (perhaps he's just a sophomore) and he's trying to impress the upperclassman in the fraternity and show them how tough and masculine he is and perhaps he's already a few six packs in before this point... so sounds he like:
"Dude!!! Let's do it! Let's get him! Yeah, man!"
Or, it could be Pete Hegseth trying to prove to his group chat crew, how he got the nickname "DUI Pete". And he's just drunk out of the world at that point and he's simply just ripping here.
Look, the country was warned last year about the consequences of having a president and presidential administration, that puts loyalty to 1 man, as well as performance and looks on TV, over actual qualifications, knowledge, education, experience, and intelligence, for the jobs that they're seeking. But 77 million voters voted for Donald Trump anyway, which gave him over 300 votes in the Electoral College.
The U.S. Senate had the opportunity to deny these people their current jobs simply because they're not qualified for them. But the Republican Senate approved them anyway, even though a lot of them knew better, but weren't ready to risk their political futures.
Elections has consequences and when the people vote for the wrong people to represent them... bad things happen. (And that's putting it mildly) The Trump Administration has been in office for 2 months now and we're already seeing how inept and unqualified they are at governing.
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