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milestogo

(22,481 posts)
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 08:26 AM Mar 2025

Hegseth 'brought wife to sensitive meetings with foreign military' where leaders 'questioned who she was'

Embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is under fire again as a source is telling The Wall Street Journal that he brought his wife to a highly sensitive meeting with foreign military leaders.

Jennifer Rauchet Hegseth, a former Fox News producer, was reportedly at multiple meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, the WSJ reported citing multiple people present or had knowledge of the discussions.

According to the WSJ, the meetings took place at the Pentagon on March 6 between Hegseth and U.K. Secretary of Defense John Healey. The high-profile meeting included the head of the U.K.’s armed forces, Adm. Tony Radakin and the group reportedly discussed the U.S.'s decision to halt military intelligence sharing with Ukraine.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/hegseth-brought-wife-to-sensitive-meetings-with-foreign-military-where-leaders-questioned-who-she-was/ar-AA1BSGY5?ocid=sapphireappshare

Hegseth has got to go. He has horrible judgment.

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Hegseth 'brought wife to sensitive meetings with foreign military' where leaders 'questioned who she was' (Original Post) milestogo Mar 2025 OP
Hummm: Chasstev365 Mar 2025 #1
More like Meowmee Mar 2025 #3
Just because you can doesn't mean you should underpants Mar 2025 #2
"Rauchet"? Sounds like one of them there "immigrant" names BoRaGard Mar 2025 #6
Shocking! Is he waiting for her approval? MineralMan Mar 2025 #4
Ummmm hmmmmm... BoRaGard Mar 2025 #5
She's there to keep him sober and away from any women he might rape. hunter Mar 2025 #7
Just thinking that - she's his social minder... haele Mar 2025 #8

Chasstev365

(7,040 posts)
1. Hummm:
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 08:29 AM
Mar 2025

Is she a former Czech model with ties to the Czech intelligence community, thus Moscow?

BE BEST!

underpants

(194,650 posts)
2. Just because you can doesn't mean you should
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 08:39 AM
Mar 2025

A secretary is at liberty to bring whomever they choose to these meetings, but the lists are usually kept to those that need to be there and attendees are expected to carry a high level of security clearance due to the sensitive nature of the information often being discussed.

Rauchet-Hegseth is not a defense department employee, a DOD official told the WSJ. Pentagon officials declined to tell the journal if Rauchet Hegseth holds any security clearance of any kind, but it is not uncommon for spouses of senior officials to hold low-level security clearance.

BoRaGard

(7,591 posts)
6. "Rauchet"? Sounds like one of them there "immigrant" names
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 09:20 AM
Mar 2025

Has she been cleared by ICE? Or should we be concerned.

haele

(15,044 posts)
8. Just thinking that - she's his social minder...
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 10:13 AM
Mar 2025

Last time he was out in public, he was seen with a whiskey glass before 10am.
Is Hegseth trying to pretend he's smart like Churchill?
According to WWII aides, Churchill's "drinking" was a facade to mess with the media and his detractors - Churchill's constant whisky glass and flask would only have almost an ounce of whiskey and five oz of water, and he'd nurse it for an hour or two.
Now, Churchill would get drunk on Champagne.at dinner parties.

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