Rep. Don Bacon, a prominent Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, became the first sitting GOP lawmaker Monday to suggest President Donald Trump should fire Pete Hegseth ...
Is everyone in a signal chat with Pete hegseth but me?
-- Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) April 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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In 2009, then-USAF Colonel Don Bacon appears to be genuinely happy speaking to his Commander-in-Chief: upload.wikimedia.org
USAF General Don Bacon (Ret.) knows incompetence when he sees it. As a Republican congressman, he was charitable in his public denouncement of SECDEF Pete Hogsbreath. With certainty General Bacon had other language in his head about this sloppy drunk MNARNG Captain in charge of the Pentagon.
Hegseth Got Airstrike Details from Secure Military Channel for Signal Chats
www.newsweek.com
... Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is under mounting scrutiny after reports revealed he pulled highly sensitive information about U.S. airstrikes in Yemen from a secure military communications channel and shared it via Signal, an unsecured messaging app, with his wife, brother, lawyer, and others.
NBC News first reported that the data -- including launch and bomb drop times for U.S. warplanes targeting Houthi positions -- originated from U.S. Central Command's classified communications. A source familiar with a second Signal chat confirmed to the Associated Press that the same sensitive operational details were shared again, this time with an even wider circle, raising concerns over a potential security breach. ...
#9: With Trumpf's selective criteria, he has plenty of candidates that can easily replace Pete Hogsbreath: media.npr.org
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