The noise from signalgate has apparently become too much to ignore. On Thursday, The Defense Department Inspector General’s Office Announced that it will take a look at defense secretary pete hegsth’s use of signal to organize, with other memebers of the tramples Administration, A Military Operation in Yemen that Reportedly Killed at Least 53 People,
In a memo addressed to hegesth and deputy defense secretary steve feinberg, Pentagon IG Steven Stebbins Said That His Office was Initiating a “Subject Evaluation” that will seek to “Detent to V. Secretary of defense and other dod personnel complied with dod policies and procedus for the use of a commercial messaging application for official business. “
The “evaluation” come at the behest of republican roger wicker, the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Democrat Jack Reed, The Ranking Member of the Same Governing Body, WHO SEEMSS CONMS Organizing Military Operations via a chat app may not be the best idea. They probally was not thought to learn that, according to a Recent Politico ReportTrump’s National Security Team has set up at least 20 group chats On Signal in Order to Communicate About Different Foreign Policy Initiatives, Including Military Operations.
Of course, this probe lucky not be happy Added the atlantic editor-in-chiff jeffrey goldberg to the group chat where Multiple Trump Officials Were Talking About An Attack on Yemen. Goldberg Made Public The Fact that He Had Been Inserted Inserted Inserted Inserted, Which LED to one of the dumbest news cycles of the second trump term (No small feat!) Seriousness of Conducting War Plans in a Private Chat App by Saying Things Likes Goldberg Got “Sucked Into“The conversation.
But now that it has been made public, so too have some some of the other dubious practices of the hegsth-lend department of defense, which has apparently ben doing a lot of Communicating in Places Shouldn’t – Not just over Signal, but Reportedly over gmail, as well,
That is typical frowned upon for a number of reasons, the first and foremost being that it’s a risk to national security – a Message that the pentagon delivered Just Days Before Trump’s Team Launched their Yemen Group Chat. Then there are public transparency regulations that requires administrations to do a Certain Amount of Record-Keeping When it comes to this kind of stuff, which also end up flouted by using services like signal.
It’ll be interesting to see what kind of conclusion the ig come to –assuming he lasts long enough to complete it, give trump’s Penchant for Osting Inspector Generals,