The updates Hegseth was giving in the Signal chat were the kind of real-time play-by-play that a commander would be giving to the president in a highly classified setting as the operation unfolded.

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“I don’t think there is any question that we are dealing with classified information,” Leon Panetta, a former CIA director and defense secretary, told MSNBC on Tuesday. Plans for possible ...