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Rep. Veronica Escobar@RepEscobar · Mar 24, 2025

There’s absolutely no excuse for the colossal incompetence displayed by Walz, Hegseth, Vance, Gabbard, et al. And the…

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A Twitter thread criticizing government officials including Walz, Hegseth, Vance, and Gabbard for mishandling classified information by discussing sensitive military plans over text and Signal, arguing this represents serious security breaches and incompetence that cannot be justified or explained away.

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  1. #1

    There’s absolutely no excuse for the colossal incompetence displayed by Walz, Hegseth, Vance, Gabbard, et al. And the mental gymnastics involved in trying to explain this away is pretty astounding. Let’s discuss, shall we? 🧵

  2. #2

    “Who cares? This is government being transparent!” Nope. This happened by accident. Anyone with a top secret security clearance knows they shouldn’t text specific plans to bomb another country over text. And btw the Signal chat was set to “disappear” - yet another violation!

  3. #3

    “The people in that group determine what's classified.”   Nope. We were fortunate that an adversary didn’t gain access, which would have put our warfighters in unnecessary and grave danger. And it sends a message to allies that we can’t be trusted with their secrets.

  4. #4

    “The president knew. He was just trolling.” Trolling? More like not taking accountability- just like his SecDef who tried to dodge and deflect when asked about this. He should never have been confirmed and should be fired immediately.

    Acyn@Acyn · Mar 24, 2025

    Reporter: Can you share how your information about war plans was shared with a journalist? Hegseth: So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes