Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer.

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    15 hours ago

    The dude is the Secretary of Defense. If he tells the people that work at the Pentagon to set up a line, what do you think they’d do? Refuse to follow orders? If they do that, then they’re fired.

    So they set up the line… then leak it to the press.

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      15 hours ago

      possibly, but i remain skeptical….
      for example, it’s probably illegal for them to do that, with ton of rules preventing that….

      just seems far fetched, unlike him texting war plans….

      could very well be a red herring… like a deliberate, easily disproven, fake leak to take away from what he actually did….

      mayhaps… i don’t know.
      the signal text is more likely and he included a journalist so it’s corroborated….