Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis on Monday called Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's reported sharing of military information in a group chat with family members “indefensible.”

“He's a former major in the U.S. Army. He was trained throughout his time as a junior officer to protect and guard the nation's secrets. He's got to know that he has failed to do that,” Stavridis told CNN’s Boris Sanchez on “CNN News Central.”

“And let’s face it Boris, if Signalgate 1.0 was a release to a group of high-ranking officials, which it was, and got leaked inadvertently to a member of the media, so we saw exactly what was on it. Here we are........

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