Pentagon Prepared Briefing for Musk on Top Secret U.S. Weapons for China War

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pete-hegseth-elon-musk-pentagon-classified-e81dade5

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WASHINGTON—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.

Musk never received the briefing. Defense officials had been raising ethics concerns about presenting the information to President Trump’s ally in part because of his extensive commercial interests in China. But the internal confusion about whether Musk would be told about the programs highlights disarray at the top levels of the Pentagon early in Hegseth’s tenure.

It also is at odds with assertions by Hegseth and Trump that there were no plans to share China-related sensitive information with Musk.

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I'm thinking he got briefed, no matter how much they deny it.