Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Hire a clown, expect a circus: Pete Hegseth edition

 
Headline:  New York Times, 3/25/2025

Tyler Pager and David E. Sanger report:
The president and the secretary of defense have the ability to assert, even retroactively, that information is declassified. But officials have refused to answer questions about the specifics of the information or who, exactly, determined that it was unclassified and could be shared on Signal, an encrypted commercial app. 
Mr. Hegseth denounced Mr. Goldberg late Monday, saying he had been “peddling hoaxes time and time again.” But on Tuesday morning, testifying in the Senate, the nation’s top two intelligence officials conceded that the exchanges released by The Atlantic were accurate[emphasis added]

Other members of the circus:
Karoline Leavitt.  (3/26/2025)

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