There is nothing else to discuss. After going at this three or four times, repeating exactly the same talking points, where are we at in the discussion?
You believe Hegseth is lying when he said no classified information was shared. I believe he was telling the truth.
What is to be gained by doing it all again. And again. And again.
Nothing will change. For some reason, you seem to enjoy doing it over and over again. I don’t.
It’s not parsing. Words have meaning. They are not investigating the incident, they are investigating the appropriateness of using Signal for confidential in-house communication.
Then why do you keep replying to me? Just don’t.
No, that’s not right. From the article:
In a memorandum addressed to Hegseth, the Inspector General’s office said it would examine whether Hegseth’s use of Signal met Defense Department guidelines, including those related to classified information.
“The objective of this evaluation is to determine the extent to which the Secretary of Defense and other DoD personnel complied with DoD policies and procedures for the use of a commercial messaging application for official business,” wrote Steven Stebbins, the acting Inspector General.
You asked an unrelated question. I have no problem responding to those. Same with a new discussion topic. I welcome the back and forth; one time, maybe two. But then I will pull the plug.
Yes, but they are not investigating it as a violation of the law, only in whether the software meets DoD P&PS. That matter is closed, unless of course, they find deliberate action by someone in putting Goldberg on the contact list to leak confidential communications to the media. That person, if there is one, would almost certainly face prosecution.
I didn’t say it was a criminal investigation. In fact, I’ve said from the beginning that I didn’t think anyone would or should be prosecuted. I just don’t think the issue is as “dead” as you and Karoline Leavitt want it to be.
Trump told you why. He said we were always going to let people go that we did not like, people we feel take advantage of their position, or people we feel have loyalties to someone else when he was asked by a reporter why the national security advisor was fired.
Trump learned a good lesson during his first term when he allowed many obama appointed people to stay and they stabbed him in the back over and over again. I don’t blame him for wanted to surround himself with people he feels he can trust.
No. It’s dead (as a newsworthy issue) unless they determine that Goldberg’s phone number was deliberately added. Time to move on. How about that stock market today? 
and so decided not too
What kind of journalist would he be if he published things he thought were untrue?
pulitzer quality?
I’m trying to ignore it. I’d rather talk about Pete Hegeseth. (That’s a sentence I never thought I’d type. 
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I get all that and I don’t disagree, but we don’t know the specifics of why these people were fired, and the Fox News headline seems to link it to the Signal chat.
That’s the key.
He can’t trust Biden appointed holdovers anymore than he could trust those Obama appointed back stabbers in the 1st term.
a member of Hegseth staff has been placed on leave during a leak probe in the DOD. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/top-hegseth-advisor-dan-caldwell-put-leave-pentagon-leak-probe-2025-04-15/
Caldwell was the dude Hegseth said was the point of contact during the Houthi-Signal mess.
