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I'm joined by Senator Adam Schiff. Senator, how big of a deal is this leak of classified information on text threads about war plans now that we've had a day or so to process it all?
Well, there's no sugarcoating it. It's a massive fuck-up dealing with some really highly sensitive national security information. These were detailed war plans, detailed plans to strike military targets. in Yemen, Houthi targets, the time of the attacks, the sequencing of the attacks, the ordinance that's being used.
All of this laid out in a commercial app, including people on the app who were in foreign countries at the time, one of whom, Steve Witkoff, the envoy to the Middle East and to Russia, was apparently in Russia, may have been even in the Kremlin while he's texting in this chat. So massive screw up by the administration. And, you know, there's so much to be shocked about by this.
I chaired the House Intelligence Committee. When I would travel overseas, I wouldn't bring my personal electronics. I would bring, if anything, a burner phone. I was made aware anything I texted, anything I emailed. I should assume that foreign governments have access to. There is no privacy. They're going to be deeply interested in anything that's said over these communications.
So to be discussing this jeopardized potentially the safety of the American pilots conducting these operations, jeopardized the potential success of the mission. And the fact that no one on this chat, not the vice president, not the secretary of defense, not the national security advisor, not the head of the CIA, not the head of the
the DNI, Director of National Intelligence, none of them apparently bothered to say, hey, folks, we shouldn't be talking about this shit in a commercial chat, on a commercial app. This is the most negligent handling of highly sensitive information. No one even bothered to say that, which tells me this wasn't the first time.
It also tells me that beyond negligent, they're just arrogant and feel they can do whatever they want. There's no accountability. Hegzeth, when he's first confronted, basically used the go-to for the Trump administration, and that is he went straight to the lie.
um accusing jeffrey goldberg of making this up it's all a big lie never discussed war plans etc that's their fallback and the results of this ought to be his resignation i think tulsi gabbard should resign if she can't be trusted to know better with national security information she can't be trusted with the nation's secrets the same is true of ratcliffe and if whitcoff was
in texting from the Kremlin or from Russian soil, he should be gone. They should be fired or they should quit.
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