House Republican Concedes Pete Hegseth Reportedly Sharing ‘Sensitive Military Details’ With His Wife Is a Problem

CNN’s Pamela Brown spoke to Rep. Carlson Gimenez (R-FL) on Monday about the latest scandal engulfing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, which Gimenez conceded is concerning.

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly used a second Signal group chat to discuss sensitive military plans with members of his family, his lawyer. You called the first leaked Signal chat a, quote, ‘huge mistake.’ Do you have confidence in Secretary Hegseth’s judgment?” began Brown.

“Well, the question is, is this chat prior to the one that was leaked out, or did he continue to use the Signal chat group after that happened? And so I’m not sure what the timing of it was. If it was something that he did prior to, okay, he should have learned his lesson now with what happened with the Mike Waltz incident,” replied Gimenez, adding:

But if he did it afterwards, yeah, I would have concerns because he’s already been burned by it once. I don’t think you need to get burned by it twice. I think you should learn from your mistakes.

“And I understand your point about the timing, but the principles of the issue don’t change in terms of discussing sensitive military details on Signal, particularly with people like his wife who, as far as I know, doesn’t have a security clearance. I’m not sure, but I don’t believe she does. You know, does that concern you?” Brown followed up.

“If in fact he did discuss what’s called top secret or things that only need to be discussed inside a SCIF with his wife, if she doesn’t have that kind of security briefing, yes it would concern me,” Gimenez conceded, adding:

And it should be a lesson to everybody in the administration and everybody actually in the federal government. A lot of the federal agencies use Signal because it’s supposed to be an encrypted very secure application. The fact that these things are being leaked now calls into question how secure Signal really is.

“Right, how secure Signal is, and we know that foreign hackers try to get into the phones of top officials. There’s all kinds of concerns from intelligence officials. Congressman Carlos Gimenez, thank you for coming on the show,” Brown concluded.

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