Comment by scottlamb

No, this isn't just about Hegseth. Any of the people on the chat could and should have said...

* Signal isn't an approved communications method for national security information at all.

* Who is this extra person on this chat? (and Hegseth wasn't even the one who added him apparently.)

* Having the only record [1] of this be auto deleting definitively violates the Federal Records Act (even if signal were an approved platform).

This is about group malfeasance and normalization of deviance.

[1] I don't know that part for certain, but I do suspect it...