@cdarwin@c.im"The United States condemns the Houthis' ongoing unlawful detention of current and former local staff of the U.S. Mission to Yemen,"
U.S. State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said in a statement.
"The Houthis' arrests of those staff,
and the sham proceedings that have been brought against them,
are further evidence that the Houthis rely on the use of terror against their own people
as a way to stay in power"
Pigott said
@cdarwin@c.im“Pete Hegseth, much like the president he serves, sees himself as, essentially, above the law, as unconstrained by legal procedure.”
Foreign policy analyst Matt Duss discusses the brewing conflict within the Trump administration over the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
including his involvement in a leaked announcement of U.S. strikes on Yemen in March
and the chain of command behind U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.
@cdarwin@c.imPentagon review faults Hegseth over Signal messages on Yemen strikes
Pete Hegseth had shared details on the launch of U.S. attacks on Houthi fighters to a group of Trump's top national security officials,
which accidentally included the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine.
https://www.reuters.com/
@cdarwin@c.imA bad week has gotten even worse for Pete Hegseth,
as a new watchdog report from the Pentagon inspector general’s office finds that the defense secretary directly endangered U.S. troops
when he used the Signal messaging app to discuss sensitive plans to bomb the Houthi rebels in Yemen back in March.
Sources told CNN that the classified report details Hegseth’s lack of urgency and seriousness
in speaking freely on the public messaging app about active U.S. war plans, u…
