{"id":453,"date":"2025-03-27T12:12:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/?p=453"},"modified":"2025-03-31T11:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:18:42","slug":"house-democrat-hegseth-should-be-removed-from-office-over-signal-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/house-democrat-hegseth-should-be-removed-from-office-over-signal-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrat: Hegseth ‘should be removed from office’ over Signal breach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), a former Air Force officer, said Wednesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth \u201cshould be removed from office\u201d if he does not resign<\/a> after he appeared to share potentially classified information<\/a> about plans to attack Houthi rebels in a Signal group chat<\/a> that mistakenly included a prominent journalist.<\/p>\n

In an interview on NewsNation\u2019s \u201cThe Hill,” Houlahan suggested the breach<\/a> is \u201cabsolutely impeachable\u201d and said the top Defense official in the country should know better.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re talking about literally classified information. The release of classified information in a nonsecure environment is an absolutely impeachable \u2014 literally \u2014 offense,\u201d she told host Blake Burman, adding, \u201cHe ought to be resigning. That’s what a decent, moral person who understands the rules would be doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd he, as a result of probably not resigning, should be removed from office,\u201d Houlahan continued. \u201cAnd I believe President Trump knows that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pennsylvania Democrat said she thinks fellow members of Congress who have served in the military and handled classified information like her, regardless of party, also \u201cknow what the right thing is to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this particular case, it is to resign or to be resigned \u2014 to be removed,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Hegseth has come under close scrutiny<\/a> in recent days over his handling of sensitive military information in the Signal group chat<\/a> that included the country\u2019s most-senior national security officials and \u2014 inadvertently \u2014 The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg.<\/p>\n

Pressure on Hegseth further escalated Wednesday when Goldberg released a second blockbuster story<\/a> \u2014 this time including full screenshots of the group chat messages<\/a> with details about the timing and weapons used in the attack on the Houthi rebels.<\/p>\n

While questions have swirled surrounding whether the information in question was classified \u2014 with Hegseth, himself, insisting he never shared \u201cwar plans\u201d \u2014 Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) told reporters<\/a> Wednesday that the information, however it might be described, should have been classified.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe information as published recently appears to me to be of such a sensitive nature that, based on my knowledge, I would have wanted it classified,\u201d Wicker said at the Capitol.<\/p>\n

Following the initial report about the chats, Houlahan sent a letter<\/a> calling for government officials, including members of Congress, to receive training in handling classified and sensitive material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), a former Air Force officer, said Wednesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth \u201cshould be removed from office\u201d if he does not resign after he appeared to share potentially classified information about plans to attack Houthi rebels in a Signal group chat that mistakenly included a prominent journalist. In an interview on NewsNation\u2019s \u201cThe Hill,” Houlahan suggested the breach is \u201cabsolutely impeachable\u201d and said the top Defense…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}