(NewsNation) — Political operative Roger Stone called retired the handling of sensitive nationalist security communications, saying each integer conversations should beryllium presumed perchance insecure.
During a Monday interrogation connected NewsNation's "CUOMO," Stone commented connected caller reports of a classified connection thread involving a journalist, advising that "secure conversations shouldn't beryllium had implicit immoderate app that is available."
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Monday that “nobody was texting warfare plans” following news breaking that Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, accidentally gained entree to a radical chat featuring Trump medication officials talking astir plans for an onslaught against Houthi rebels successful Yemen.
Initially suspected of AI disinformation, the National Security Council aboriginal confirmed the messages were real.
Roger Stone: AI fakes volition marque our authorities worse
Stone expressed alarm astir artificial intelligence's imaginable to manipulate governmental discourse. He described AI-generated audio arsenic "uncanny" and warned that the exertion could "only marque our authorities worse" by creating seamlessly believable mendacious narratives.
"Voters [are] already uncertain what to judge fixed the immense magnitude of accusation coming to them via the net arsenic good arsenic cablegram TV," Stone said astir the increasing situation of distinguishing betwixt authentic and fabricated media.
Roger Stone: False communicative that Lee Harvey Oswald changeable JFK
Regarding precocious released documents astir erstwhile President John F. Kennedy's assassination, Stone argued that cardinal accusation remains deliberately withheld.
He criticized the existent papers merchandise arsenic "cherry-picked," saying that important grounds contradicts the authoritative communicative of Lee Harvey Oswald arsenic the sole shooter.
Stone pointed to circumstantial inconsistencies, including a paraffin trial helium claims shows Oswald had nary gunpowder residue and testimonies from Parkland Hospital doctors suggesting aggregate shooting angles.
He said that important documents, including conversations betwixt CIA Director John McCone and President Lyndon Johnson, stay unavailable.
"There are inactive documents astatine the National Security Council, NSA, FBI, CIA, and Department of Defense that were not included," Stone said.
NewsNation spouse The Hill contributed to this report.