![[CREDIT: CSPAN] After confirmation by the U.S. Senate in a tie breaking vote of 51-50, President Donald Trump's pick to serve as Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, was sworn in by Vice President JD Vance Saturday, Jan. 25.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Hegseth-U.S.-Secretary-of-Defense.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
![[CREDIT: CSPAN] After confirmation by the U.S. Senate in a tie breaking vote [CREDIT: CSPAN] President Donald Trump's pick to serve as Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, was sworn in by Vice President JD Vance Saturday, Jan. 25. U.S. Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), who questioned the SecDef leadership ability at the time, said new reports of his reckless treatment of classified information confirm that assessment.of 51-50, President Donald Trump's pick to serve as Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, was sworn in by Vice President JD Vance Saturday, Jan. 25.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Hegseth-U.S.-Secretary-of-Defense-336x170.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WASHINGTON, DC — Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth faces a second report, by the New York Times, of his unsecure Signal App transmissions about fighter jet strikes in Yemen to non-public contacts, compromising SecDef management amongst U.S. service members, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, (D-RI), mentioned.
President Donald Trump’s cupboard choose, lower than 4 months into the job, is already the topic of an intelligence leak scandal after accidentally texting the war plans to Atlantic Editor-In-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, together with “exact details about weapons packages, targets, and timing,” of F/A-18 Hornets focusing on the Houthis in Yemen on March 15, hours earlier than the airstrike occurred.
The brand new report issues a second textual content transmission of these particulars to a gaggle of private contacts together with Hegseth’s spouse, brother and lawyer.
Reed Continues SecDef Management Skepticism
Reed, the Rating Member of the Senate Armed Companies Committee, voiced doubt that Hegseth was as much as the duty throughout his affirmation in January, handed with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President J.D. Vance after a 50-50 vote within the U.S. Senate.
“Mr. Hegseth, I don’t imagine that you’re certified to fulfill the overwhelming calls for of this job,” Reed mentioned on the time, “We should acknowledge the regarding public studies towards you. A wide range of sources – together with your personal writings – implicate you with disregarding legal guidelines of warfare, monetary mismanagement, racist and sexist remarks about women and men in uniform, alcohol abuse, sexual assault, sexual harassment, and different troubling points. I’ve reviewed many of those allegations, and discover them extraordinarily alarming.”
‘Accountability begins on the prime, and I’ve grave issues about Secretary Hegseth’s capability to keep up the belief and confidence of U.S. service members.’ — U.S. Sen. Jack Reed
Following the brand new report, Reed mentioned, “If true, this incident is one other troubling instance of Secretary Hegseth’s reckless disregard for the legal guidelines and protocols that each different army service member is required to observe. He should instantly clarify why he reportedly texted categorized info that might endanger American servicemembers’ lives on a industrial app that included his spouse, brother, and private lawyer. I urge the Division of Protection Workplace of Inspector Normal to incorporate this newest incident in its ongoing investigation of Mr. Hegseth’s mishandling of categorized info.”
“Since he was nominated, I’ve warned that Mr. Hegseth lacks the expertise, competence, and character to run the Division of Protection. In mild of the continuing chaos, dysfunction, and mass firings underneath Mr. Hegseth’s management, evidently these objections had been well-founded. Accountability begins on the prime, and I’ve grave issues about Secretary Hegseth’s capability to keep up the belief and confidence of U.S. service members.”
