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The dude is the Secretary of Defense. If he tells the people that work at the Pentagon to set up a line, what do you think they'd do? Refuse to follow orders? If they do that, then they're fired.
So they set up the line... then leak it to the press.
possibly, but i remain skeptical….
for example, it’s probably illegal for them to do that, with ton of rules preventing that….
just seems far fetched, unlike him texting war plans….
could very well be a red herring… like a deliberate, easily disproven, fake leak to take away from what he actually did….
mayhaps… i don’t know.
the signal text is more likely and he included a journalist so it’s corroborated….
He's the Secretary of Defense, he makes most the rules about how military secrets are handled. Even if it were against some rule, if he orders someone to break a rule, then he's the one breaking not the person setting up the connection. Sure in the military, you don't follow illegal orders, but that's reserved for being ordered to do a war crime or go against the constitution in some way. Sec Def telling someone to set up an internet connection doesn't rise to this level.
Sure we don't have sworn testimony, but the AP is a reliable source of information and they verify their sources. I'd default to trusting the story rather than doubting it because you can't imagine anyone in the pentagon having the ability to set up an unsecured internet connection when ordered to do so by Sec Def.