‘Oh for God’s Sake’: Brit Hume Can’t Believe Pete Hegseth Tried Denying That Airstrike Plans Were Leaked
Brit Hume isn’t buying a denial from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, his former Fox News colleague, regarding an explosive report over leaked plans for airstrikes in Yemen.
On Monday, Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg explained he had inadvertently been added to a Signal group chat involving more than a dozen national security officials. Members of the group – which included Hegseth, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and Vice President JD Vance – discussed potential strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen, which were eventually carried out. Goldberg, who shares initials with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, was inexplicably added to the group by Waltz.
“I will not quote from this update, or from certain other subsequent texts,” Goldberg wrote of the discussion on whether to bomb the Houthis. “What I will say, in order to illustrate the shocking recklessness of this Signal conversation, is that the Hegseth post contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing.”
A spokesperson for the National Security Council told Goldberg, “This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain.”
Hours after the report dropped, a reporter questioned Hegseth about the leak. The secretary responded by calling Goldberg a “highly discredited so-called journalist” and denying that the war plans, which Goldberg was informed about in advance, had been leaked.
“Nobody was texting war plans. And that’s all I have to say about that,” he insisted. Hegseth’s denial caught the attention of Hume, Fox News’s chief political analyst, who tweeted his disbelief.
“Oh for God’s sake, the administration has already confirmed the authenticity of the message,” he wrote.
Before the secretary’s denial, Hume appeared on Special Report on Fox News, where he called the episode “a major leak.”
On Monday night, Politico reported that Waltz’s future as national security advisor may be in jeopardy.
“It was reckless not to check who was on the thread,” one senior administration official said. “It was reckless to be having that conversation on Signal. You can’t have recklessness as the national security adviser.”
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