Communication from the HegSeth crisis after signalgate was horrible: the former spokesperson

Pentagon communications were in Meltdown mode, according to ex-Porte-Shale John Ulyot, who described the “horrible” signalgate response.

Ulyot, who resigned from his post last week to avoid working under the chief press secretary Sean Parnell, described in an editorial for politico Sunday a chaotic month full of samples, intestine struggles and a reluctance to manage bad news by possessing it.

“The building is in disarray under the direction of Hegseth,” said the former communications official, calling the Pentagon signalgate debacle the start of the “month of hell”.

He wrote that when this story broke out, the defense secretary Pete Hegseth “followed advice from horrible crisis communications from his new public affairs team, which in a way convinced him to try to demystify reports thanks to a vague non -denial of Clinton that nobody sent an SMS to war plans ”.

Ulyot called this “a violation of the number one public relations rule – bring out the bad news”.

HegSeth’s “nebulous Disavowal” according to which the signal cat contained sensitive information stimulated the journalist inadvertently to the cat, Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, to release the full discussion, said Ulyot, “transforming an already-big history into an embarrassment of several weeks for the national security team of the president.”

The problem did snowball while the pentagon placed three senior officials on leave And saw two other officials, including Ulyot, leave the office of the Secretary of Defense.

And now, the department is struggling with Signalgate 2.0, new allegations according to which the Secretary of Defense shared the details of combat plans in another signal cat with people without “need to know”.

Ulyot challenged the official statements of the Pentagon according to which the three officials on leave – the main advisor Dan Caldwell, the deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick, and Colin Carroll, chief of staff to the deputy secretary of defense – were put on leave due to investigations on alleged leaks.

Ulyot wrote that “officials of the Ministry of Defense working for Hegseth tried to dirty the employees anonymously with journalists, saying that they had been dismissed for having disclosed sensitive information within the framework of an ordered investigation earlier this month”.

“However, none of this is true,” he continued.

“While the ministry said that he would perform polygraphic tests in the probe, none of the three had received a lie detector test. In fact, at least one of them had told former colleagues that the investigators had advised him that he was about to be officially erased from any reprehensible act,” he said.

Trump officials were quick to attack Ulyot’s claims on Sunday.

“This guy is not America first,” wrote Donald Trump Jr. in an article on social networks on X Sunday. “I have heard for years that he has worked his ass to overthrow my father’s agenda. It ends today. He is officially exiled from our movement.”

In his editorial, Ulyot also drew attention to the revelation of Sunday by the New York Times that on March 15, Hegseth also shared sensitive military information linked to attacks on American planes on Houthi targets in Yemen in a separate signal conversation with his wife, his brother and his personal lawyer.

Hegseth denied such claims, saying that time reports were part of a “Slash and Burn” strategy used by former dissatisfied employees.

“What a big surprise that some leaks are licensed and suddenly, a bunch of successful pieces come out of the same media that have peddled the hoax of Russia, will not make their pulitzers, they have obtained pulitzers for a bunch of lies.”

Ulyot highlighted this trend in his commentary criticizing the situation of the Pentagon, saying that “unfortunately, HegSeth’s team has become used to spreading lies to downright, easily demystified lies anonymously on their colleagues by leaving.”

In addition to the departure of Ulyot and the three managers placed on leave, a fourth official, Joe Kasper, the chief of staff of Hegseth, leaves his role. Kasper is said to have launched the investigation into the recent leaks from the Ministry of Defense, including information related to US military operations centered on the Panama Canal and efforts to share intelligence with Ukraine.

Pentagon press secretary Sean Parnell said that Times’ reports – and the “grievances of former dissatisfied employees” – is “another old story – from the dead”, “The Trump Hatting Media”, which “continues to be obsessed with the destruction of anyone who has committed to the order of President Trump”.

“We have already realized so much for the American warfighter and we will never go back,” he said.

Pentagon leadership has repeatedly said that letters and the individual fighter are the most important priorities, but Ulyot argued that with Signalgate and other communication disasters during a “terrible month”, the “Pentagon focus is no longer on war fights, but on an endless drama”.