USA: Pitt Hegschez at the center of a new scandal – his wife present in secret military meetings, Wall Street Journal writes

Jennifer Hegschez was also present at a meeting held at Brussels, in February, where NATO officials They met to discuss support in Ukraine, two people who also participated in the meeting also told the Wall Street Journal.

It seems, of course, that the wife of the Minister of Defense is not the only one that accompanies him to meetings. And his brother, Philip, He often travels with him to official games, according to the Pentagon.

At the Brussels meeting, on the sidelines of the meeting of the NATO Member States’ defense ministers, representatives of the Ukrainian Contact Group (ed. A US forum with the participation of 50 states, which coordinates the provision of weapons and other assistance). At the meeting of the doors of the doors, confidential information was discussed, such as donations to Ukraine by states that do not want to make public.

Some of the foreign officials in these meetings, They didn’t know who Jennifer Hegschet isthe WSJ says, citing sources from both meetings listed in the publication. Others, again, were amazed at her presence but continued without raising objections to her participation.

Members of Congress, both on the part of Republicans and the Democrats, have expressed concern about the way Pitt Hegsch manages sensitive military information. And this after the Signal fiasco, where the US Secretary of Defense and other government officials began to exchange messages about the hit against the Houthi in Yemen and without understanding it they had put a journalist in the conversation!

“When you have meetings with ministers or senior NATO officials, sensitive security information is almost always discussed,” said Jack Hagel, Minister of Defense of Barack Obama’s government. “If you are going to discuss something secret, such as national security issues, you have to be very selective. What does the man you invite have to do with? “

A leading former Obama government official stressed that former President Bill Clinton has never attended a meeting of then Foreign Minister Hillary Clinton. However, he had traveled to North Korea to ensure the release of a reporter.