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Topic: Signalgate

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers remarks on Dec. 8, 2025. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Hegseth's press purge is now complete

Sabrina Haake
U.S. Vice President-elect Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) arrives for the Senate Republican leadership elections at the U.S. Capitol on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Vance joked about Signalgate in chat

Alex Galbraith
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth arrives for his Senate Armed Services confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

IG: Hegseth put troops at risk

Blaise Malley
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a Cabinet meeting on Oct. 9, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Hegseth’s press crackdown is backfiring

Sophia Tesfaye
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon, June 26, 2025. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Hegseth bleeds staff. But he's the issue

Jesselyn Radack
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. (Celal Gunes / Anadolu / Getty Images)

Polygraphs to stop, the leaks haven't

CK Smith
President Donald Trump, accompanied by U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Waltz (R), takes a question from a reporter during a meeting in the Oval Office on March 13, 2025. (Getty Images Andrew Harnick)

Dems tear into Waltz over Signalgate

Cheyenne McNeill
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C), US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz (R) and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff attend an interview after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on February 18, 2025. (EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump nominates Waltz for UN ambassador

Alex Galbraith
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President Donald Trump, accompanied by U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Waltz (R), takes a question from a reporter during a meeting in the Oval Office on March 13, 2025. (Getty Images Andrew Harnick)

Waltz out as national security adviser

Natalie Chandler
US President Donald Trump departs aboard Marine One after visiting Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on July 11, 2020. (ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's low regard for lives of soldiers

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport after being booked at the Fulton County jail on August 24, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Signal breach resets scrutiny standard

Sabrina Haake
Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth leaves a meeting with Republican Senators at the Capitol in Washington, DC, on November 21, 2024. (Allison Robbert for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

DEI hysteria is a national security risk

Rann Miller
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Fox anchor Pete Hegseth interviews entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel during "FOX & Friends" at Fox News Channel Studios on August 09, 2019 in New York City. (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

GOP voters: Leaks are "serious problem"

Griffin Eckstein
Senior Advisor to the President Stephen Miller (R) walks behind U.S. President Donald Trump as he talks to reporters before they depart the White House June 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The most chilling lesson of Signalgate

Heather Digby Parton
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