Plans to brief billionaire businessman were scrapped over ethics concerns and confusion over who ordered it
Top Pentagon aides were developing a briefing for Elon Musk last month on more than two dozen highly classified weapons programs for fighting China until the department’s top lawyer intervened, people familiar with the plan said.
Acting Pentagon General Counsel Charles Young learned that a memo being drafted to show Musk contained information on 29 China-related “special access programs,” a designation for the military’s most sensitive secrets, the people said.
Young contacted a senior aide to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was traveling in Japan, to ask if the secretary had approved revealing China plans to the billionaire businessman. “The memo is on hold until you guys can get back and discuss,” Young wrote in a text reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The leaks keep coming and they don’t stop coming
Ignore the rules and keep the booze running
Doesn’t make sense that his jobs not fun,
He keeps on drinking and he never had to run.
So much to tell, so much to say,
What are government secrets anyway?
They’ll never know if you don’t blow
Who’d thought we sink this low? Yo!
From yolo to low, yo