Yes, Pete Hegseth Should Be Fired for What He Texted — and for Lying About It

On Monday, I wrote that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should be fired for his egregious behavior in the now-infamous Signal group chat’s disclosure to a journalist of military operational planning in advance of the strikes on the Houthis:

Pete Hegseth — the top civilian in the Department of the Defense and a man who has command authority over U.S. military operations worldwide — texted information, over an unsecured channel, that “contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing.” That’s shocking, egregious, and totally outrageous.