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🗓️ 22 April 2025
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0:00.0 | Well, howdy there, Internet people, it's Bell again. |
0:04.8 | So today, we're going to talk about a second SECDF signal surfacing. |
0:11.0 | Well, in news that should be shocking, but totally isn't, |
0:15.3 | reporting has surfaced that Secretary of Defense Pete Hexeth was in a signal chat, |
0:23.0 | sharing sensitive military information. |
0:31.2 | I know. I know you heard about this last month. No. This is reported to be a different signal chat, |
0:38.2 | but this one didn't have a journalist from the Atlantic in it. It did reportedly have his wife and brother in the chat. |
0:46.0 | So there's that. This administration is already an endless deluge of you have got to be kidding me. |
0:52.2 | For those who missed the reporting the first time, Signal is a commercial app that is not approved for the transmission of classified information. |
0:55.8 | The reporting says that sensitive information was shared, including the type of information |
1:01.1 | that many, even Republican senators, believe should have been classified. Generally speaking, detailed |
1:08.7 | information about upcoming air campaigns is classified. |
1:13.6 | The second signal chat is alleged to have had material very similar to the first shared |
1:18.9 | regarding upcoming operations in Yemen. |
1:22.3 | The White House has called the incident a non-story. |
1:26.4 | The Secretary of Defense's actions are the subject of a reported |
1:30.1 | DOD Inspector General investigation that was undertaken at the request of senators, including |
1:37.2 | the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Senator Jack Reed, who is the ranking |
1:43.7 | Democratic member on the same committee, |
1:46.4 | took to social media to encourage the Inspector General to broaden the scope of investigation, |
1:52.5 | to include the latest known signal chat. The initial investigation was announced near the beginning |
1:59.5 | of April. Senator Reid said Heg-Seth, |
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