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Salon
Salon
Politics
Alex Galbraith

Hegseth denies Yemen leaks

We all know that old adage: when caught sending plans for American military operations through a platform you got off the app store, deny deny deny.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revived the era of alternative facts on Monday, outright refusing to admit that he had leaked plans for U.S. airstrikes on Yemen in a group chat that accidentally included the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.

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