White House stunned as Hegseth inquiry brings up illegal wiretap claims

[bongsaway]

The White House has lost confidence in a Pentagon leak investigation that Pete Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides last month, after advisers were told that the aides had supposedly been outed by an illegal warrantless National Security Agency (NSA) wiretap.

The extraordinary explanation alarmed the advisers, who also raised it with people close to JD Vance, because such a wiretap would almost certainly be unconstitutional and an even bigger scandal than a number of leaks.

After reading the article I'm not sure who is trying to blame who for what?

White House stunned as Hegseth inquiry brings up illegal wiretap claims

Exclusive: Trump advisers lose confidence in Pentagon leak investigation Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides

www.yahoo.com

 

[daeler]

Lol, they gave a high rank job to someone that doesn't have the qualification to do that job, is known to have addiction issues, and needs outside council to run that job.

Now they are finding that he is doing a crap job of controlling his staff. Gee I wonder who could have told them this was going to be a sh** show.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

 

[Callen]

they gave a high rank job to someone that doesn't have the qualification to do that job, is known to have addiction issues, and needs outside council to run that job.

Yes, In MAGA parlance , a DEI hire.

 

[Napoleon]

So they’re guilty and folks are just frowning at the fact that they were busted by a wiretap?

 

[hooligan]

So they’re guilty and folks are just frowning at the fact that they were busted by a wiretap?

No. Did you read the article?



...But the advisers found the claim to be untrue and complained that they were being fed dubious information by Hegseth’s personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore, who had been tasked with overseeing the investigation...

...The advisers were stunned again when Parlatore denied having told anyone about an illegal NSA wiretap himself and maintained that any information he had was passed on to him by others at the Pentagon...

...In particular, one Trump adviser recently told Hegseth that he did not think Caldwell – or any of the fired aides – had leaked anything, and that he suspected the investigation had been used to get rid of aides involved in the infighting with his first chief of staff, Joe Kasper...

 

[Napoleon]

No. Did you read the article?



...But the advisers found the claim to be untrue and complained that they were being fed dubious information by Hegseth’s personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore, who had been tasked with overseeing the investigation...

...The advisers were stunned again when Parlatore denied having told anyone about an illegal NSA wiretap himself and maintained that any information he had was passed on to him by others at the Pentagon...

...In particular, one Trump adviser recently told Hegseth that he did not think Caldwell – or any of the fired aides – had leaked anything, and that he suspected the investigation had been used to get rid of aides involved in the infighting with his first chief of staff, Joe Kasper...

Yeah, I read the article. It says Caldwell was implicated by the presence of a classified document on his cellphone discovered via a wiretap.

 

[hooligan]

Yeah, I read the article. It says Caldwell was implicated by the presence of a classified document on his cellphone discovered via a wiretap.

Yeah, no.

...At that juncture, a handful of Trump advisers in the West Wing and elsewhere were told there was evidence that Caldwell had printed a document on US military plans for the Panama canal classified at the top secret level, took a photo, and sent it to a reporter using his personal phone...


No where in the article does it say that any such evidence has ever been produced. Unless I missed it?

 

[Napoleon]

Yeah, no.

...At that juncture, a handful of Trump advisers in the West Wing and elsewhere were told there was evidence that Caldwell had printed a document on US military plans for the Panama canal classified at the top secret level, took a photo, and sent it to a reporter using his personal phone...


No where in the article does it say that any such evidence has ever been produced. Unless I missed it?

It says:

“At that juncture, a handful of Trump advisers in the West Wing and elsewhere were told there was evidence that Caldwell had printed a document on US military plans for the Panama canal classified at the top secret level, took a photo, and sent it to a reporter using his personal phone.”

How did they know what was on Caldwell’s phone? The article says:

“It was not immediately clear whether the the rumor was correct or even from where it emerged. But it appears to have spurred the White House to press Parlatore to disclose the evidence against Caldwell, including how the Pentagon knew what was on his phone.

At first, Parlatore rebuffed the attempts to obtain the underlying evidence, noting it was inappropriate for the executive branch to insert itself into an ongoing criminal investigation that he said could still yield charges.

But towards the end of April, according to what the Trump advisers shared inside the White House, Parlatore suggested that there had been a warrantless wiretap on Caldwell’s phone.”

 

[hooligan]

It says:

“At that juncture, a handful of Trump advisers in the West Wing and elsewhere were told there was evidence that Caldwell had printed a document on US military plans for the Panama canal classified at the top secret level, took a photo, and sent it to a reporter using his personal phone.”

How did they know what was on Caldwell’s phone? The article says:

“It was not immediately clear whether the the rumor was correct or even from where it emerged. But it appears to have spurred the White House to press Parlatore to disclose the evidence against Caldwell, including how the Pentagon knew what was on his phone.

At first, Parlatore rebuffed the attempts to obtain the underlying evidence, noting it was inappropriate for the executive branch to insert itself into an ongoing criminal investigation that he said could still yield charges.

But towards the end of April, according to what the Trump advisers shared inside the White House, Parlatore suggested that there had been a warrantless wiretap on Caldwell’s phone.”

Correct. "Were told".

As I said, nothing in the article, including the passages you've quoted here, says the evidence has ever been presented to anyone.

 

[Napoleon]

Correct. "Were told".

As I said, nothing in the article, including the passages you've quoted here, says the evidence has ever been presented to anyone.

What the article is talking about is that the White House doesn’t want to touch it with a ten foot pole because the evidence against Caldwell was procured via a supposedly unlawful wiretap.

 

[bongsaway]

Correct. "Were told".

As I said, nothing in the article, including the passages you've quoted here, says the evidence has ever been presented to anyone.

All of this shit flying around and everybody pointing their finger at the next person, what a joke of an administration.

 

[Ikari]

Gotta watch those DUI hires, never know how and when they're going to **** up hard.

 

[hooligan]

What the article is talking about is that the White House doesn’t want to touch it with a ten foot pole because the evidence against Caldwell was procured via a supposedly unlawful wiretap.

I'll repeat:

No where in the article does it say that any such evidence has ever been produced.

 

[reflechissez]

I'll repeat:

Bored yet? You know how this goes.

 

[CaughtInThe]

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That was literally my first thought