Nick Schifrin:
Democrats pointed to a January 2025 Department of Defense manual that lists military plans, weapons systems or operations as the first reason to call information classified.
National Security Adviser Mike Waltz later added real-time intelligence that the U.S. targeted “the Houthis’ top missile guy. We had positive idea of him walking into his girlfriend’s building, and it’s now collapsed.” Those details’ source is provided by sensitive classified collection.
And multiple former defense and intelligence officials told “PBS News Hour” today that they would consider this level of detail classified and exquisite that could have put troops at risk.
But Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who holds declassification authority, called the accusations baseless.