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Is this mishap getting more milage than finding cocaine in the White House?
Waltz took responsibility because it was *his* staffer.Who is this phantom “staffer?” Mike Waltz said he created the group himself. You might want to look into this a little. Waltz chose the incorrect contact per his own admission. Nobody fucked this up for him. He fucked up all on his own. Not sure why it’s so hard to admit that a human error was made by an imperfect human. Ain’t none of us perfect, old son. Mistakes get made. Man up, own up. Learn from it. But dodging, deflecting and blaming others is what we accuse our political rivals of doing while we dodge, deflect and blame others. America. Land of the free thinkers. Nope.
No, no it was not.Are we sure it was a world class fuck up? Why couldn't there be an anti-Trump mole in his administration looking to sabotage everything possible?
Waltz took responsibility because it was *his* staffer.
Why would Waltz even have this editor in his address book ? They golfing buddies or something ?
Not exactly full of pertinent details, unless you happen to know who "Target Terrorist" is and where they live.Here's a pretty damning one, IMO. Note that this is before the strikes occurred...
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This ^^^ As usual it’s easy to set some pants on fire.But, as it turns out, the reporter was sensationalizing the contents of the conversation to the point of outright lying about them.
It's like anyone who believes anything they say without confirmation is a moron.
There were no “war plans” because there’s no declared war, so that makes a breach of national security ok. Witch hunt. Hoax. Alternative facts. Hit piece. Lamestream media. Nothing to see here. Nothing happened. Hey, look- new tariffs!![]()
JUST IN: The Atlantic Backtracks On ‘War Plans’ Hit Piece
The liberal news outlet which has ground Washington, D.C. to a halt within the past few days has backtracked after claiming that top Trump officials had shared “war plans” with an editor over an unsecured group chat. Jeffrey Goldberg, the Canadian-born editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was...trendingpoliticsnews.com
It's like anyone who believes anything they say without confirmation is a moron.
It's also not OK that the government can't provide a useful secure communication channel that doesn't suck. This was recognized by the Biden administration when *they* authorized Signal to be used for this sort of conversation.
But, signal *was* an officially approved secure communication method.I just don't think you guys get it. We don't get to determine the value of classified info. If it's classified, it's classified. Period. And this information most certainly was.
I have seen white images full of static that were classified. Nothing to be discerned from the images, they were truly just static noise. If I'd transmitted them over a cell phone app, I'd be in prison.
There's no valid reason that I should have to live by one set of rules and Hegseth et. al. should live by another. You guys are blinded by party/political loyalty. As someone pointed out earlier, if this were the Biden admin, many here would be up in arms.
If you think the rules are stupid - which, a lot of times, they are - then change the rules. Don't exempt select people from them.
It is, generally.I thought privatization was a good thing?
There you go again with some common senseIt is, generally.
And this wasn't a failure of signal itself. It wasn't hacked or anything.
So, the scandal is that this guy got added to the chat, but the media seems to be trying to make it about the administration using Signal for the conversation.
The investigation should be about how he got added and by who, and why. It's possible it's an honest error, but it doesn't smell like it.
And if it *was* an honest error, then that suggests the flaw in the system is the one that makes it too easy to make that error.
So, either the NSA needs to spin it their own version of the app, or someone needs to pay the Signal folks to customize a version that is more resistant to that sort of problem.
Or, just get Signal to fix the user interface flaw for everyone.
But, that's assuming it wasn't done on purpose. If it was, then the app is fine, and people were using it fine, you just need to root out the spies better.
The investigation should be about how he got added and by who, and why.
That tells you what account added him, not what person.This is already a 100% known, at least the who part. You'd have to get them to explain why they did it.
It's the line directly below "yesterday".
Its the hard screencap of the chat. Not sure why everyone is trying to "figure out who added him" when its clearly displayed in the information release.
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That tells you what account added him, not what person.
Or do you think Biden was personally sending out all the tweets with his name on them ?
Hell, he wasn't even signing all the laws and pardons with his signature on them.
There's at least even odds that Waltz told Wong to set this up and he is the one who posted that.
It was Mike Waltz's account for sure.How many Michael Waltz's are in that chat? Just him. He confirmed that was him.
Tweets aren't signal chats. They're much closer to group text messages than tweets. None of these people have their aides holding their phone and texting on their behalf.
Biden sucked. I think we agree there. However what Biden did or did not do in signing laws is irrelevant and unrelated to the proper chain of custody in handling the type of information discussed in the signal chat in question.
Wong didn't invite him into the chat group. Waltz did. If it's a setup then Wong also was somehow controlling everyone else's device too? The person who posted it is the Atlantic reporter, not Wong. It's on their website and is from the reporters device (the phone screenshots).
DEI HireInteresting. Hopefully they are checking to see if there has been any contact between this guy and Goldberg.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So the person who supposedly added the journalist to the Signal group chat, Alex Wong, was an attorney for Covington & Burling, one of the law firms that Trump included in his EOs about government contracts and security clearances. <br><br>Interesting. <a href="https://t.co/IpiRT9f5LE">https://t.co/IpiRT9f5LE</a> <a href="https://t.co/8tGXU4nrjQ">pic.twitter.com/8tGXU4nrjQ</a></p>— The Researcher (@listen_2learn) <a href="">March 25, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>