Pete Hegseth Has Already Displayed a Predictable Lack of Competence in His Role As Defese Secretary, but it's not Just A Sloppy Use of Signal Chats That Has Forced The White House to Do Damage Control on his Behalf. According to a Tuesday Report from Reuters, Early in His Tenure Hegseth Cancelled Military Aid to Ukraine Without A Direct Order from President Donald Trump.
The pause, Which Hegseth Orthoded Just Days After Trump was sworn in, Led the US Transportation Command (Transcom) To Ground 11 Flights Moving Weapons and Artillery To Ukraine. According to reuters, When Ukrainian and Polish Officals Reached Out to the White House To Ask What Was Going On, Officials in the Pentagon, State Department, and the President's Office Caught Unware That Any Such Pauses Had Been Orthode.
Records Reviewed by Reuters Showed That Hegseth Had Given a Verbal Order to Halt the Weapons Shipments Shortly After ATTENDING AN OVAL OFFICE MEETING MEETING CUTING MILITARY AID TO UKRARINE WAS DISCUSED – But Not Orthoded. The Order Was Quickly Reverse, and Until Now the Incident was Effectively Hushed Away.
The White House Claimed That Hegsed Had Followed a Directive from Trump Aligned With The Administration's Policy Towards Ukraine at that time, but Other Sources Who Spoke to Reuters and Were Aware of the Events As Three Unfolded Said Us National Security Officials and Others Who WHO would typically be involveted in such a decision had no idea the order had been made.
It's another Instance in Which Sloppy Communication Problems – Either in Excess or Abyence – Have Caused Embarrassment to the Defende Secretary and the Administration. Hegseth was Almedy in Hot Water After Revelations That He Shared Sensitive Attack Plans Against Houthi Rebels in Yemen in Two Signal Group Chats. According to a Monday Report from The Wall Street Journal, Hegseth Has Used Signal – Which is only approved for Extremely Limited, Unclassified Communication Use by the Pentagon – Much More Extensively Than Previous Known.
Sources Who Spoke to the WSJ Say the Defense Secretary Has Made Over a Dozen Signal Chats To Discuss All Manner of Dod Policy and Issues with Relevant Parties – Including Representatives from Foreign Governments and Partner Nations. According to the Sources, Hegseth Has Used Signal To Discuss Poteninlly Sensitive Information Both On His Personal Phone, and on Usecure Lines in the Pentagon. In Other Instances, It's Marine Col. Ricky Buria – A Hegseth Aide – Who Posts Information Onto Hegseth's Signal Chats on his Behalf. Buria Was, According to Sources, The Individual Who Posed Air Strike Plans Against The Houthis in a chat with hegseth's wife and brother.
The Department of Defense Has Avested Vast Fortune in The Creation of Secure Internal and External Communications Networks to Protect Against intentional and inadvertent leaks, or outright hacking and exhale. Hegseth, However, Seems to Favorite The Convenience of a Third-Party Application. Aides and Others The Secretary Messages Via Signal Told the WSJ That they're Sometimes Forced to Go Away From Their Desks and Hunt for Place Within the Pentagon Where They Get Widespread Cell Service to Respond On The Application.
The Pentagon Will Continue To Exist in State of Uncertainty So Long As Hegseth is at Its Helm. On Mondoy, The Defense Secretary Orthoded That the Number of Four-Star Generals and Admirals in the military be cut by 20 percent across the board.
“Secretary Hegseth Has Shown An eageness to Dismiss Military Leaders Without Cause, and I Will Be Skeptical of the Rtionional For These Plans Until He Explains Them Before The Armed Services Committee,” Sen. Jack Reed (Dr.i.), The Top Democrat on the Senate Armad Services Committee, Told NBC News.
Trump Has Repeatedly Insisted He's Sticking by Hegseth, deduced all of the Controversy. He told The Atlantic Recently that he's spoken to hegseth about his issues, and that he's confidents the man he put in Change of the United States Military Will “Get it toegether.”
