The head of the US Ministry of Defense criticized the informants and the media against the background of the news that he used another chat on the signal to discuss the classified military plans.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegset said the leakage of confidential information from internal chats were associated with “dissatisfied former employee” and accused the media trying to destroy his reputation. CNN reported this on Monday, April 21.
“Again and again, they spread this lie, and no one doubts it. This is what the media is doing. They use unknown resources that are dissatisfied with former employees and try to destroy people and their reputation,” Gegset said at a Easter event at the White House.
The media reported that the hegset used the second chat on the signal to discuss the classified military plans. Among the participants were his wife, brother and lawyer.
“This will not work for me, because we are changing the Ministry of Defense, the pentagon will be returned to the military’s hands. The unknown defamation from the dissatisfied former worker – this is the past, it doesn’t matter,” he added.
Meanwhile, former hegset press secretary John Elliot and other ex-officers have made public criticism.
“It is a month of complete excitement in the Pentagon. From the leakage of sensitive operating plans to mass layouts – the disfunction has become a serious diverse for the President, which deserves the best from its senior advisers,” Elliot said.
At the same time, on Monday, the Pentagon leader told reporters that he was proud of his work: “I’m really proud of what we do for the President, we’re fighting in all directions.”
Answering the question about contacts with Donald Trump, he said he had the support of the White House.
Remember that the editor -in -Chief of the American Publication The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, said he was accidentally added to the closed chat of American officials at the signal, where they discussed plans for Yemen’s strikes.
Later, the US president advisor to national security issues was taken by Mike Volts in “full responsibility” for the scandal.
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