Flight plans are a state secret, but war plans are not
That’s the inevitable conclusion when the government is arguing that information about a plane full of deported migrants must be kept confidential, even from a judge who used to serve on the national surveillance court, while the accidental revelation of a pending military attack is nothing to worry about.
State secrets should be of special interest to John McGuire. He spent ten years as a Navy SEAL sniper, deploying to several countries over that decade.
Surely when McGuire was serving overseas, he would’ve been unhappy to hear that his Secretary of Defense had accidentally leaked information about a classified operation of his to a journalist, hours before it happened, without catching his mistake, and probably used a personal cell phone to do it. Navy SEAL John McGuire would’ve insisted on, at the very least, a congressional investigation.
Luckily, McGuire is now a member of Congress who sits on both the Armed Services Committee and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability. No one’s in a better position to get to the bottom of how a magazine editor got looped into J.D. Vance and Pete Hegseth’s group chat about bombing the Houthis. Or whether their use of Signal was just carelessness or a choice designed to keep their messages from being archived and available to, well, people like Congressman McGuire.
If you’d like to ask him to investigate
Phone: (202) 225-4711
You could say something along the lines of:
Hi, my name is _________. I’m a constituent in the 5th district, and my zip code is _____.
I’m calling to ask the congressman to use his seat on the Armed Services and Oversight committees to investigate the incident in which a journalist was included in a group chat to plan the Houthi bombing.
I know Rep. McGuire is a veteran and cares deeply about keeping American troops safe. This incident put troops’ lives in danger, and it exposed highly classified information. I’m asking him to use his status as a veteran and his position in Congress to make sure there are serious consequences for this lapse and that it never happens again.
Thank you.