The White House supported the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Monday after a report revealed that he sent information about a March strike against Houthis in Yemen to friends and family through a signal chat group, with the press secretary Karoline Leavitt the “complete”.
“The president is far behind the secretary Hegseeth, who is doing a phenomenal job leading the pentagon,” Leavitt told “Fox & Friends.”
“This is what happens when all the Pentagon is working against you and against the monumental change that you are trying to implement.”
Hegseeth was part of a group of signals from the “Directors Committee” of the “main” on the strikes of March 15 that included the editor -in -chief of Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg magazine, who revealed that he had dropped his legs on the attack plans.
Much of Fiasco’s guilt was presented to the National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who assumed the responsibility of adding Goldberg’s contact information instead of the American commercial representative Jamieson Greer.
On Sunday night, New York Times reported that Hegseth also had information about attacks on a second group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.
According to the reports, this chat included “Essential and the same attack plans” that Hegseth shared with the directors committee, including flight schedules for Hornets F/A-18 aimed at the hutíes.
Jennifer Hegseeth is not an employee of the Department of Defense, but has traveled on trips abroad with him. His brother Phil and his lawyer Tim Parlatore work in the Pentagon, but it is not clear why they would need access to attack plans.
“What a great surprise that some leaks are triggered and a lot of success parts leave the same media that sold Russia’s deception. [and] Won returns to his Pulitzers, “Hegseeth told journalists on Monday morning, head of the Easter Easter roll of the White House.
“This is what the media do,” he added. “Anonymous sources from former unhappy employees take and then try to cut and burn people and marry their reputation.”
“Another day, another old story, back from the dead,” wrote Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell in X in response to the time report. “There was no information classified in any signal chat, no matter how many ways try to write the story.”
Earlier on Sunday, Polico published an opinion article by the former spokesman of the Chief Pentagon John Ullyot, who resigned last week, in which he said that “it has been a month of total chaos in the Pentagon.”
“In summary, the building is under the leadership of Hegseeth,” Ultfot wrote.
“It is very likely that there are more shoes to fall in a short time, with even larger pump stories this week, the key reporters of the Pentagon have sources of bone count in private.”
On Friday, Hegseeth dismissed three main employees about leakers: Main Advisor Dan Caldwell, the deputy director of Cabinet Darin Selnick and the chief of cabinet of the Secretary of Defense of Colin Carroll.