Pelosi: "TIME NOW for the Secretary of Defense to Resign"

San Francisco – Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and his decision to share classified U.S. military plans in a Signal group chat:

“By disclosing classified U.S. military plans on an unofficial and unsecure messaging app, the Secretary of Defense demonstrated that his incompetence led to recklessness.  In my thirty years of experience working with the Intelligence Community, I have never before seen such horrifying incompetence in the securing of our nation’s intelligence.  How dare he put our Troops at risk with this cavalier behavior.  There must be accountability.

“If any rank-and-file personnel in the Intelligence Community were to put our national security at risk in this way, they would be fired immediately and possibly prosecuted.  Secretary Hegseth cannot be held to a different standard.

“Our work in Intelligence has always been about force protection.  Our brave men and women in uniform deserve better than a leader at the Pentagon who not only recklessly puts them in danger, but could cost us the cooperation of our Allies in sharing Intelligence — further jeopardizing our national security.

“It is TIME NOW for the Secretary of Defense to resign.”