Another day, another attack on Pete Hegseth.
The New York Times dropped a hit piece on Pete Hegseth over his personal phone usage.
According to The Times, Hegseth’s personal phone number, which was used in a Signal chat, was publicly available on Facebook and fantasy sports sites, exposing him to hackers.
It is totally normal for government employees to use their personal phones.
The New York Times reported:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s personal phone number, the one used in a recent Signal chat, was easily accessible on the internet and public apps as recently as March, potentially exposing national security secrets to foreign adversaries.
The phone number could be found in a variety of places, including WhatsApp, Facebook and a fantasy sports site. It was the same number through which the defense secretary, using the Signal commercial messaging app, disclosed flight data for American strikes on the Houthi militia in Yemen.
Cybersecurity analysts said an American defense secretary’s communications device would usually be among the most protected national security assets.
“There’s zero percent chance that someone hasn’t tried to install Pegasus or some other spyware on his phone,” Mike Casey, the former director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said in an interview. “He is one of the top five, probably, most targeted people in the world for espionage.”
Pete Hegseth was hit with another round of leaks on Thursday after several top aides had been fired for leaking.
The attacks against Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal began last month after Jeffrey Goldberg, the anti-Trump editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, claimed he was accidentally added to a secure Signal group chat where top Trump administration officials discussed sensitive military operations against Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
The Biden Administration installed Signal on government-issued computers, but use of the app only became a scandal during the Trump Administration.
According to a leak to the Washington Post on Wednesday night, Pete Hegseth installed Signal on his desktop at the Pentagon as a way to circumvent ‘the lack of cellphone service’ in the Pentagon.
Hegseth’s spox Sean Parnell hit back and told WaPo the Defense Secretary “has never used and does not currently use Signal on his government computer.”
On Thursday, a leak to the Associated Press expanded on the Pentagon computer leak to WaPo.
The AP reported that Hegseth used an unsecured internet line that ‘bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols’ so he could use Signal at his office.
The latest attack comes as it was reported that Hegseth’s Chief of Staff Joe Kasper will leave his position at the Pentagon after three other Hegseth aides were fired last week.
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