‘You’re Putting American Troops' Lives At Risk’: Ted Lieu Calls For Investigation Into Text Leak

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During a press briefing from House Democrats on Tuesday, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) spoke about holding Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other Trump officials accountable after a group chat leaked regarding U.S. war plans in Yemen.

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00:00Thank you, Mike. I want to thank Pat Ryan and Mike Thompson for organizing this really important press conference.

00:06What Secretary of Defense Pete Hexett did was outrageous.

00:10He sent secret war plans to a journalist, and the reason that that is so reckless

00:17is if anyone other than people who should have had that information got it, you could put pilots at risk.

00:25If a foreign intelligence service somehow was monitoring that group chat,

00:30they could have given it to Houthis, and Houthis could have shot down a pilot.

00:34It's really, really disturbing that the White House still does not seem to understand the seriousness of this problem.

00:41Even today, they're saying somehow that this information was not classified.

00:45They are just lying.

00:47All of us here, a certain uniform, we know that that wouldn't have been classified.

00:51We cannot talk about the time, date, place, targets, sequence of strikes, and not have that be classified

00:57because, again, you're putting American troops' lives at risk.

01:01And I also want people to understand that it's not just that the Signal app was not authorized.

01:07The Pentagon sent an email, according to public reporting, on March 18th saying do not use this.

01:13It's that you've got software out there, one of them is known as Pegasus,

01:18that simply takes over and controls your phone.

01:21So you don't even have to break into the Signal app.

01:23You simply become the user, and you can simply monitor everything that is happening.

01:28So a foreign intelligence service was doing that.

01:30This, again, was very reckless and endangered our national security,

01:35and that's why we're calling for an investigation to get to the bottom of this, and we're asking for accountability.

01:40And with that, my honor to introduce the great member from New Jersey, Mikey Sherrill.

01:47Hi, I'm Mikey Sherrill.

‘You’re Putting American Troops' Lives At Risk’: Ted Lieu Calls For Investigation Into Text Leak

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