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Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

What’s Being Missed in the Govt Signal Leak Debate; DNA Data Could be Sold As 23andMe Goes Bankrupt

Crossroads with Joshua Philipp

The Epoch Times

Government, Education

4.9594 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

The latest political storm in Washington surrounds a Signal chat that included Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Their communications on plans to attack Houthi terrorists were leaked to the press, and it turned out that someone had inadvertently added a journalist to the secure chat. The incident has now turned into a debate on the security of government communications and whether laws could have been broken. But what’s being left out of the discussion is that Signal is actually approved for government and even some military communications.

Meanwhile, 23andMe is going bankrupt, and now there are warnings that the DNA data could get sold off.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The latest scandal in Washington is around a signal chat that included Vice President J.D. Vance,

0:05.6

Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth, and National Security Advisor Mike Walls.

0:10.4

Their communications on plans to attack hootty terrorists, it was leaked to the press

0:15.1

when someone inadvertently added a journalist to that chat.

0:19.2

However, there's a lot that's being left out of the discussion

0:22.6

surrounding this signal chat, and I'll be going into that today. In other news, the taxpayer-funded

0:28.7

programs to give free housing to illegal immigrants that has now been brought to an end by the

0:34.7

Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner.

0:38.6

And also, if you've ever used 23 and me to find your ancestry data, well, you might want to

0:44.9

delete your data there very soon. The company may be going bankrupt. And there are now warnings

0:50.3

that the DNA data there could get sold off. I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator

0:56.1

reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. The latest scandal in

1:06.4

Washington, and there'll probably be another one, I don't know, tomorrow or next week,

1:12.6

but there's scandals all the time. The latest one is a signal chat. This is a private communication app, uses some degree of security.

1:18.6

This one included Vice President J.D. Vans, Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth, National Security Advisor Mike Walts.

1:24.6

They were having discussions on, you know, getting clearance to launch

1:28.5

attacks on the Houthi terrorists. And it turned out that the media, the Atlantic just published a

1:34.7

story on it. An investigation started, how did the Atlantic get this story? Who leaked it? And then

1:41.0

the head of the company actually published online saying that someone inadvertently added him to the chat.

1:48.1

Now, Mike Wals has come out and taken full responsibility for it, saying that he was the one who added the Atlantic to it,

1:56.2

and there's now an investigation to that.

1:58.1

But the incident has now turned into a debate on, well,

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