Hegseth and Battle Plans
These national security officials must think we are morons. OF COURSE, battle plans are classified. Ask the mission pilots and their families. They’ll tell you.
From “The Atlantic” – https://shorturl.at/zUujy
The defense of the United States is a serious business. Breaches of national security are especially dangerous. So perhaps I should not have laughed at the reactions of Donald Trump and his staff and Cabinet members to the revelations by The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, and staff writer Shane Harris about a group chat on Signal (one that accidentally included Jeff) dedicated to planning strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.
I laughed because I am a former government employee and Senate staffer with a fair amount of experience in dealing with classified information, and the administration’s position that nothing in the chat was classified is ludicrous. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth added a bit of topspin to that position on Monday when he got off a plane in Honolulu and, seemingly in a panic, fulminated against Jeff and tried to deny that any “war plans” were shared in the chat.
A very curious thing happened in that Blanche/Maxwell interview. Some noticed that Blanche never even once pressed Maxwell on details that didn’t add up. He didn’t challenge her to subtantiate any of her statements. He in fact ADMITTED he wasn’t going to ask her to corroborate anything. “Like I said, I’m not asking you to corroborate anything. If I was asking you to corroborate something, I would tell you. . .” (pg. 211).
VERY odd conduct for a prosecutor interested in the facts. it appears as if Blanche was in fact NOT interested in the at all; but rather was interested in eliciting exculpatory statements from a convicted child sex trafficker. To exculpate whom? Donald Trump, of course. He also clearly invited her to implicate President Clinton (odd, indeed), but she refused to play along.
If you paid any attention to the conversation between Maxwell and the Asst AG, you’ll notice he did NOT press her to substantiate or corroborate IANY of her testimony. He wasn’t looking for the truth.
It Ain’t Gonna Go Away