Jason Crow Claims Signal Scandal Is ‘Part Of A Larger Pattern Of Disregard, Of Impunity’ From Admin

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During a press briefing from House Democrats on Tuesday, Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) listed different security breaches from the Trump administration when discussing the leaked Signal group chat regarding U.S. war plans in Yemen.

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00:00Good afternoon, I'm Jason Crow from Colorado and it is my pleasure to be here with my colleagues,

00:09my comrades and brothers and sisters in arms that represents almost 100 years of military

00:16service standing behind me here today.

00:20We all understand that our deepest and most sacred obligation is to protect the men and

00:28women in uniform who protect us every single day.

00:32There's nothing more serious that we do day in and day out here to ensure that these men

00:37and women are protected and that they can go home to their families when their mission

00:42is done.

00:43And it's that that makes this incident, this reckless breach of security so staggering.

00:51Because it not only put at great risk the lives of those airmen and women who were conducting

00:58an extremely dangerous mission that day, but it also represents a larger pattern.

01:04And I'd like to talk about that.

01:06See, this isn't a one-off event.

01:10This isn't just a singular mistake that the administration still hasn't admitted that

01:16it needs to fix.

01:17This is part of a larger pattern of disregard, of impunity, of not taking its job seriously

01:25in our most sensitive national security life and death decisions.

01:30Whether it's transmitting the names of intelligence officers in an unclassified channel to the

01:34White House.

01:35Whether it's Elon Musk's private employees hooking up a personal computer to a sensitive

01:41national security system, compromising that system.

01:44Whether it's giving Elon Musk and his employees access to private, personal, financial, and

01:51data of American people.

01:54This happens over and over and over again.

01:59So the pattern that has brought to light through this incident shows very clearly that this

02:06administration simply does not care about protecting your data, protecting your information.

02:13It simply does not care to take seriously enough protecting sensitive national security

02:18information.

02:19Now, we hope that there was no damage done here.

02:23We don't know that to be true because we still have to do the investigation.

02:26But folks, it is simply a matter of time before the culture of recklessness and impunity of

02:33the Trump administration is going to get a lot of people hurt very badly.

02:38And that will only be stopped if there's a change in culture.

02:42And the only way you change culture is by getting information, bringing it to light,

02:47and then imposing accountability on those responsible.

02:50That is what must happen.

02:52And if Donald Trump and the Trump administration do not do that, they are sending a very clear

02:56message once again that they do not care about the safety of the American people.

03:01Now it's my honor to pass this over to another fellow combat veteran, Seth Moulton from Massachusetts.

Jason Crow Claims Signal Scandal Is ‘Part Of A Larger Pattern Of Disregard, Of Impunity’ From Admin

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