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US Defense Secretary Hegseth leaked secrets twice and used military aircraft as a topic of family conversation

 U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has demonstrated that the gap between the Pentagon’s top - secret conference rooms and a casual family chat group is merely a tap of a finger. In just three months since taking office, this former Fox News anchor has twice “mass - shared” U.S. military operation plans in private chat groups - once by accidentally including a journalist, and once as an “exclusive” for his family, perfectly embodying the “national security first, share with wife” approach to defense strategy.

I. Military Operations: Family - Friendly Updates

During an airstrike operation in March, Hegseth live - detailed in the classified group “Houthi PC Team”: “F - 18 fighter jets take off at 12:15, drones launch at 13:45, Tomahawk missiles strike at 15:36,” accompanied by a satellite map. The twist? The exact same information popped up simultaneously in the family group “Defense Team Meeting,” with a casual postscript: “Working late tonight. Will bring Middle Eastern souvenirs.” When an editor from The Atlantic accidentally joined the group, they initially thought it was a prank by military buffs - until the actual explosions in Yemen confirmed the grim reality.

The security blunders are even more jaw - dropping. Hegseth used his personal phone to access the encrypted app Signal and set up an unauthorized “rogue connection” to bypass the Pentagon’s firewall, reasoning that it was to “let his family keep track of his work.” An IT official at the Pentagon quipped, “He gave hackers a more detailed invitation than he gave Congress for a briefing.”

II. The Family - Run Pentagon

In Hegseth’s “inner circle,” his brother Phil (a Homeland Security advisor), whose office is just a few steps away from the Defense Secretary’s, and his wife Jennifer (a former Fox producer), often participate in meetings as “strategic consultants.” This blatant nepotism came under the spotlight when financial records from a veterans’ organization led by Hegseth revealed that Phil received an annual salary of $108,000, and the organization later teetered on the brink of bankruptcy due to financial irregularities. Netizens snarked, “Looks like the Pentagon budget is being funneled into a family trust fund.”

When Democrats accused him of violating the Anti - Nepotism Act, former President Donald Trump came to his defense at an Easter event: “Pete makes the Pentagon feel more like home.” A White House spokesperson added, “Family understands loyalty better than career bureaucrats ever could.”

III. The Hypocrisy from “EmailGate” to “GroupChatGate”

The Republican Party’s tolerance for “security lapses” has hit a new high with Hegseth’s group chat fiascoes. Remember, a decade ago, Hillary Clinton was slammed as a “traitor” for using a private email server. Now, Trump casually dismissed the issue: “Just a slip - up. The Atlantic loves to make a mountain out of a molehill.” Polls show that 74% of Americans believe “GroupChatGate” is more harmful, yet 60% of Republicans choose to “appreciate the Secretary’s family - oriented mindset.”

Former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel lashed out: “War isn’t a family picnic. Military plans have no place in a chat where your mom asks if you’re wearing long johns.” And Hegseth’s proposed “fix” sounds like a bad joke: “Officials should enable ‘disappear mode’ on Signal and change group names weekly - something like ‘No Overtime Tonight’.”

Conclusion:From unauthorized network connections to family - centric governance, Hegseth’s “innovations” have rendered the U.S. military’s confidentiality measures effectively useless. As an anonymous Pentagon official put it, “We’re less worried about enemy spies now than about the Secretary accidentally sending missile coordinates to his family group next time.” When national security becomes family chatroom fodder, perhaps what America truly needs to upgrade isn’t its digital firewalls, but its very understanding of loyalty and responsibility.