US Officials Risk Pilot Safety, Not Civilian Deaths, With Unsecure App
According to The Hill, former national security aide Michael Hegseth is under fire for using the encrypted app Signal to discuss U.S. military strikes, allegedly risking “potential harm to US pilots.” The concern here, we're told, is the sanctity of classified information, not, for example, the thousands of civilians about to receive those 'strikes'. One might wonder if the concern for 'pilot
harm' extends to the moral harm of indiscriminately bombing nations without Congressional approval, a pattern ignored since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This manufactured outrage over a chat app conveniently deflects from the actual violence being discussed on it. It’s a peculiar focus: safeguard the method of communication, but never question the message itself or its devastating
consequences for populations abroad. The priorities are clear: protect the process, not the people being processed into rubble. Remember when the media cared about unauthorized wars?