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It’s truly astounding that we would see that released in the form of a non-secure government channel,
Hagel told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour I mean, details of a strike ― a war strike ― that’s going to kill people, do damage. That’s the intent of it. I think that is classified information,
This is a new administration that’s barely been in office two months,
You can parse words ... was it a ‘war plan,’ or a ‘war strike,’ but it’s all the same and in many ways you can say that the specifics of a war strike, which this laid out, is even more important and probably should be even more classified than war plans,
This is classified information. It’s a weapons system as well as sequence of strikes as well as details about the operations,
I don’t have time to ask those questions, because the threat is in the house, the threat is across the dias, and I need to ask these questions, it’s my job to ask these questions of you,
Y’all know that’s a lie, that’s a lie to the country.”
Turning back to Gabbard and Ratcliffe and referring to their past remarks that If you did your job and collected it from the Russian foreign ministry and the national security adviser and the secretary of defense,
My answer yesterday was based on my recollection, or the lack thereof, on the details that were posted there,
It is completely outrageous to me that administration officials come before us today with impunity, no acceptance of responsibility, excuse after excuse after excuse, while we send our men and women downrange to do incredibly difficult, incredibly dangerous things on our behalf,
It is highly classified and protected,
This is when the first bombs will definitely drop,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth texted a group of senior Trump administration officials, telling them the precise time of military flights that would attack Houthi locations in Yemen There was no classified information as I understand it,
President Trump said on Tuesday You do not need to be a member of the military or intelligence community to know that this information is exactly what the enemy would want to know,
said Mick Mulroy, a former deputy assistant Defense secretary under the first Trump administration Secretary Hegseth’s official visit to the Indo-Pacific to strengthen our alliances and to advance President Trump’s national security priorities has been — and will continue to be — a resounding success,
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in an emailed statement It is certainly an unhelpful distraction,
said a former defense official with experience in the Indo-Pacific, who like others, was granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue It’s all anyone wants to talk about,
said a former Trump administration official, who has been involved in planning trips for senior leaders Allies don’t have high expectations for him as is,
said a second former defense official The orders and regulations about discussing classified material on unauthorized mediums are pretty clear,
If you have a private that loses a sensitive item, that loses night vision goggles, that loses a weapon, you can bet that that private is going to be held accountable,
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said at a briefing last week
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