The cabinet minister, himself a former soldier, went public about the attempted sting because of fears Moscow may try to distort any footage or audio material from the call
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"He acknowledges very much that it shouldn't have done but Ben is a guy that understands threat very well." Mr Heappey added:"He spent a long time as our nation's security minister before he was promoted to be the secretary of state. "He was acutely aware that he was on a Microsoft Teams call and therefore, he would not ever disclose any sensitive details on a platform that can be very easily intercepted and listened into."When the call started to ask more pointed questions about our intentions militarily in the region. Ben knew full well that that's not the sort of question that anybody would normally ask on Teams. And so he became pretty suspicious and terminated the call.
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