Jacob Heilbrunn
Ever since he became Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth has been sending out strange signals. Between purging the military of its top generals, he’s also been participating in a variety of Signal chats that pose a threat to national security. The Atlantic made waves earlier this month when it reported that Hegseth had shared top secret information about an impending American military strike on Yemen with a Signal chat group that somehow included its editor Jeffrey Goldberg.
In response, the White House sought to smear Goldberg. Now comes the revelation that Hegseth also shared the same information with another dozen or so people, including his brother and personal lawyer.
Once again, the White House is defending Hegeseth as the “victim” of a murky “plot.” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox and Friends that “the president stands strongly behind Pete Hegseth.” That is, until he doesn’t.
Leavitt claimed that deep-state bureaucrats in the Pentagon were working overtime to subvert the overdue reforms that Hegseth is trying to institute: “This is what happens when the entire Pentagon is working against you and the monumental change you are trying to implement,” Leavitt said. “Unfortunately there have been people at that building who don’t like the change the secretary is bringing and they are leaking and lying to mainstream media, we have seen this game played before.”
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