Sen. Blumenthal: Signalgate Follows a Pattern of Pete Hegseth Inviting Elon Musk to See China War Plans

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BLUMENTHAL: “I’m hoping for an even more aggressive, comprehensive investigative effort that will be bipartisan. This step, asking for the Inspector General of the Defense Department to do an inquiry, is a good one, very positive, bipartisan step, but these investigations by inspectors general often take months, sometimes years, and this one has to be prompt, penetrating and unsparing. And in the meantime, let’s be very blunt here. There was a likely crime committed under the Espionage Act, under the Federal Records Act. There should be a criminal investigation. I think there’s grounds for a prosecution, but ultimately the evidence has to be assessed after the FBI, which has a criminal national security unit to do an objective and independent investigation that could produce a prosecution. I also think that both Hegseth and Waltz need to resign or be fired because this breach of security for Hegseth follows a pattern. For example, inviting Elon Musk to come see China’s war plans or our war plans against China, and that kind of disdain for proper security procedures I think really warrants very serious consideration along with other failings.”