From the Article:
“If you think we should do it let’s go. I just hate bailing Europe out again,” Vance replied. Hegseth agreed that “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.” But, he added, “we are the only ones on the planet (on our side of the ledger) who can do this.”
Miller, the Trump confidant, effectively ended the conversation by saying that the president had been clear. “Green light, but we soon make clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return.”
Edit: The texts are released to public
That must have been in purpose because how the flying frack do you accidentally invite a hostile (to you, that is) journalist into a top secret chat about war plans?
Too many DUI hires
The problem is that they were discussing national defense information outside of approved classified systems. I mean Signal is secure yeah, but phones are not.
Because they can get away from it. Notice how no Republican has come out to condemn this breach of security.
Not unreasonable that a politician has the number to a journalist in their contacts. Probably wanted to add someone else and fat fingered it from the contact list.
No I’m seriously wondering if they thought some of this would help them somehow. I honestly don’t see how nobody would’ve noticed
Yes, if you mistype a number of something you’d be very unlikely to add a reporter or let alone an editor