"Mr. Hegseth declared to the group — which included the journalist — that steps had been taken to keep the information secret.
“We are currently clean on #OPSEC,” Mr. Hegseth wrote, using the military acronym for operational security.
Several Defense Department officials expressed shock that Mr. Hegseth had put American war plans into a commercial chat group. They said that having this type of conversation in a #Signal #chatgroup itself could be a violation of the Espionage Act, a law covering the handling of sensitive information."
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