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Tanuki

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Thu Mar 27, 2025, 12:07 PM Thursday

Rep. Garamendi: Hegseth texted to "make up for personal inadequacies."

Ouch!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-democrat-hegseth-shared-classified-002749476.html

"Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) suggested Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared top secret information in a Signal group chat with national security officials to alleviate “personal inadequacies.”

“What in the hell are you guys doing? And why are you doing that on a commercial chat platform? Makes absolutely no sense. And it’s, in fact, extraordinarily dangerous,” Garamendi said during a Tuesday appearance on NewsNation.

“And then you bring in the Secretary of Defense and perhaps for his own personal inadequacies for the job, he decides that he’s got to show that he’s got the really big, important stuff that he can then share with the other teenagers that are chatting about this,” the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee’s subpanel on military readiness added.
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Garamendi has long questioned Hegseth’s ability to lead the Department of Defense and initiated a probe into the leader’s decision to deploy medical units at Guantanamo Bay where the Trump administration has tried to hold illegal immigrants."....(more)

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Rep. Garamendi: Hegseth texted to "make up for personal inadequacies." (Original Post) Tanuki Thursday OP
Everyone on that chat chain proved they cannot be trusted with our nation's secrets. surfered Thursday #1

surfered

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1. Everyone on that chat chain proved they cannot be trusted with our nation's secrets.
Thu Mar 27, 2025, 12:15 PM
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It’s astonishing that this includes the Director of National Intelligence, the CIA Director, the President’s National Security Adviser, and the Secretary of Defense.

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