Summary

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denied allegations that he texted classified war plans to a Signal group chat that mistakenly included The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg.

The National Security Council confirmed the chat’s authenticity but called the inclusion of Goldberg an inadvertent mistake.

Lawmakers from both parties demanded investigations, with former CIA Director Leon Panetta warning of potential espionage violations.

Hegseth dismissed Goldberg as a “deceitful” journalist. Trump denied knowledge of the incident.

  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 hours ago

    You’re right Pete. It wasn’t texting.

    It was RCS through an untraceable encrypted messaging app named Signal

    Which is WORSE since records are destroyed

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      14 hours ago

      About the technical part, Signal uses the Signal Protocol instead of RCS. (Google also uses the Signal Protocol to encrypt some RCS messages in Google Messages, but the Signal Protocol and RCS are not the same thing.)

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        14 hours ago

        Well shit you know what I mean …messaging with data. But thanks for the specifics I knew it wasn’t RCS but that’s all I could think of