Texting about war plans on their PERSONAL phones?

Former National Security Official Brett Bruen tells me that Signal, the encrypted app Pete Hegseth, Vance and Gabbard used to share war plans, can’t even be downloaded on a government phone. So these officials, who are top targets for Russian, Iran, and China, were texting on easily hackable personal devices.

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