Trump says he would ask Hegseth to review if flight times should be classified

[Eugene]

Source: The Hill

Trump says he would ask Hegseth to review if flight times should be classified

by Alex Gangitano - 03/26/25 7:20 PM ET

President Trump on Wednesday said he would ask Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to review what kinds of information should be classified, especially flight times, after they were included in the Signal group chat.

The White House has insisted that no classified information was shared in the chat after The Atlantic released screenshots on Wednesday showing Hegseth relayed specific information related to weapons used and the timing of attacks. The Pentagon chief told other top officials on Signal the exact times American F-18 fighter aircraft and MQ-9 drones took off for Yemen before the March 15 airstrikes.

When asked whether he would ask Hegseth if flight times and sequencing should be considered classified, Trump replied that he would consider it.

“Sure. I’ll ask him. Sure. I would,” Trump said while taking questions from reporters in the Oval Office. “You can view that two ways, frankly — there’s a lot of ways to answer that question, but I’d certainly ask him to take a look.”

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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5216516-trump-said-he-would-ask-hegseth-to-review-if-flight-times-should-be-classified/

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Are military movements like troops, ships or aircraft sensitive enough to be classified?

[Walleye]

1. Those F-18s only takeoff from one place, an aircraft carrier that our enemies know where is located

He is so fucked up he doesn’t even know who our enemies are. Certainly not Canada and Mexico.

[Norrrm]

2. The same Donald Trump who says he knows more than the generals.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Hint to the whack job: there's been a whole Dept. of Defense in place for decades.

I think they established a whole protocol about handling such things.

[C_U_L8R]

4. That's not the point, Dotard !

Why is your administration conducting illicit and unauditable communications on insecure consumer devices and messaging services? And then lying about it. To Congress.

[FalloutShelter]

5. Jeebus H. Rice!!!!

He must be removed right now. He is gone.

The MSM has some responsibility in all of this shit.

As I said yesterday, if the MSM wanted him gone, he'd be gone.
It only took them three weeks to get rid of Joe because of a bad debate performance. Let that sink in.

This is an ACTUAL national crisis. There is so much blood in the water that you can't see the bottom of the shark tank. There should be a feeding frenzy, and yet there is not.

What are they waiting for? Someone to start a war while TSF puts Inspector Clouseau.... er, I mean Elon Musk on the case?

What the actual fuck?!

[LoisB]

6. Jesus wept! Sure, donnie, time of attack should always be made public so the "enemy"

can prepare.

[D. Spaulding]

7. This tap dancing about whether the info was actually "classifed" or not misses the big point;

Anyone who's been in the military for any length of time and had to take the OPSEC and COMSEC training every year, knows that information should not have been discussed on that format, and especially while an uninvited journalist was listening in. I don't think the text was even necessary except Hegseth felt like a little kid who finally got to move real armies around and watch them blow stuff up outside of his video games, and couldn't resist bragging and showing off about it.