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cbabe

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Tue Mar 25, 2025, 01:49 PM Mar 25

Pentagon email ordered staff not to use Signal week before bombshell war plans report

https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-signal/

Pentagon email ordered staff not to use Signal week before bombshell war plans report

Travis Gettys
March 25, 2025 1:39PM ET

Pentagon employees were notified as recently as a week ago not to use Signal for government communications due to security risks.

NPR's Tom Bowman reported Tuesday that all agency employees received an email a week before warning about vulnerabilities in the encrypted app, which was used by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other leading national security officials to discuss war plans on March 15, with a journalist added to the group chat by national security adviser Mike Waltz, perhaps unknowingly.

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Pentagon email ordered staff not to use Signal week before bombshell war plans report (Original Post) cbabe Mar 25 OP
Back-dated email, really? It's too late to try to cover up. Jit423 Mar 25 #1
So the Defense Secretary didn't get the memo? This administration runs like an unoiled machine. sinkingfeeling Mar 25 #2

sinkingfeeling

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2. So the Defense Secretary didn't get the memo? This administration runs like an unoiled machine.
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 01:51 PM
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