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Pete Hegseth embroiled in ANOTHER astonishing war plan group chat leak

Apr 20, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    4% Center

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    26% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -22% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : The story came out following a week after three top staffers under Hegseth at the Pentagon were forced to resign amid a probe into leaks at the Department of Defense.
56% : 'We are incredibly disappointed by the manner in which our service at the Department of Defense ended,' Caldwell posted on X. 'Unnamed Pentagon officials have slandered our character with baseless attacks on our way out the door.' Caldwell and the others added: 'We still have not been told what exactly we were investigated for, if there is still an active investigation, or if there was even a real investigation of 'leaks' to begin with.'
51% : Revelations of another use of Signal for classified information come as one of Hegseth's leading advisers, Dan Caldwell, was escorted from the Pentagon last week after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense.
50% : 'There is a clear public interest in disclosing the sort of information that Trump advisers included in non-secure communications channels, especially because senior administration figures are attempting to downplay the significance of the messages that were shared,' the journalists added.
47% : 'This investigation will commence immediately and culminate in a report to the Secretary of Defense.'
46% : Selnick also performed the duties of the under secretary of Defense for personnel and readiness.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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