{"id":17822,"date":"2025-04-21T08:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=17822"},"modified":"2025-04-21T08:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:52:14","slug":"knives-out-for-hegseth-new-allegations-of-opsec-failures-pentagon-mismanagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=17822","title":{"rendered":"Knives Out For Hegseth: New Allegations Of OPSEC Failures, Pentagon Mismanagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/knives-out-hegseth-new-allegations-opsec-failures-pentagon-mismanagement\"><strong>READ HERE<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is taking heavy fire once again.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>In what looks like a coordinated attack<\/strong>, Sunday brought\u00a0a sensational new allegation of Hegseth violating operational security (OPSEC) ahead of the March 15 US strikes on Yemen, and an op-ed from a former Hegseth advocate calling for his removal over &#8220;total chaos at the Pentagon.&#8221; While it&#8217;s hard to discern motives in DC&#8217;s\u00a0<em>House of Cards<\/em>\u00a0intrigue, the renewed assault comes after\u00a0<strong>Hegseth reportedly helped dissuade President Trump from launching Israel&#8217;s long-pursued US war on Iran<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Hegseth found himself in the middle of a media and political firestorm after\u00a0<strong>he unwittingly shared\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hegseth-atlantic-war-plans-signal-yemen-houthis-c0addd08c627ab01a37ea63621cb695e\">detailed information<\/a>\u00a0about pending US strikes on Yemen with\u00a0<em>Atlantic<\/em>\u00a0editor Jeffrey Goldberg<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; who was errantly added to a Signal group chat for top officials by national security advisor Mike Waltz .\u00a0Hegseth didn&#8217;t do himself any favors by downplaying the report and attempting to obfuscate the facts of the scandal &#8212; for example, using wordplay to claim &#8220;nobody was texting war plans,&#8221; but rather minute-by-minute details of the attack. Goldberg&#8217;s inclusion aside,\u00a0<strong>the use of a common smartphone app to discuss such sensitive details was controversial by itself<\/strong>, raising concerns not only about OPSEC, but also records retention.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}