Hegseth Disclosed Secret War Plans in a Group Chat
The conversation among the defense secretary and other national security officials on a commercial messaging app mistakenly included the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg.
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The conversation among the defense secretary and other national security officials on a commercial messaging app mistakenly included the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg.
The tally of names read like President Trump’s enemies list of people who opposed him, from Letitia James to Liz Cheney.
“This court has not kept its disdain for President Trump secret,” the Justice Department said in a motion in a case filed by a law firm suing the administration.
The president also denied a report that such a briefing had been planned to be held at the Pentagon on Friday.
The thousands of documents posted online this week disappointed assassination buffs. But historians are finding many newly revealed secrets.
The big reveal from almost 64,000 documents was that there wasn’t much of a reveal at all.
Newly unredacted documents reveal details about Cold War spycraft, not a second gunman on grassy knolls. The revelations have “nothing to do with who killed Kennedy,” one expert said.
The director of the Central Intelligence Agency emphasized that some documents had nothing to do with the assassinated president, according to people familiar with the discussions.
The president said more than 80,000 pages would be disclosed, with no redactions, which he allowed in 2017. An estimated 99 percent of the records are already public.
The president revived a number of falsehoods he had used on the campaign trail last year, including his lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him.