At this point, security at Fox NEWS is stronger than at Trump's Department of Offense. It's only happening because Trump assured us, "I only pick the best people." God knows what they are actually best at.
The way that the military pummels OPSEC into your brain, but he doesn't have that because he was a TV PERSONALITY. He does NOT deserve any kind of security clearance. He should be classified as a security risk. I am so fed up 😭
Elon Musk, Doge, Republicans hate your Grandparents they want to steal their Social Security checks to buy fancy cars jets, mansions, yachts, THEY ARE SCARING YOUR GRANDMA AND GRANDPA , RISE UP FOR YOUR FAMILY
BUT the majority party in Congress DOES NOT CARE!! So there is no consequence.
They have shirked responsibility, abdicated their authority to Trump and Musk and are cowering in the bowels of Mar a Lago (or other undisclosed location -- At least we know they're NOT hiding in a Town Hall somewhere!!)
You’re acting like the caring is exclusive to one party when it’s really only a handful of people in congress that care to begin with. We need better people on the ballots from all parties. It’s just that the corruption is a requirement for the MAGA party. Republicanism died a decade or two ago.
Because it is a fire-able offense. It was not a 'mistake', each one of them knew Signal app is not approved as a secure channel. All of them flouted the rules purposely.
It was a bunch of bros talking it up like they were discussing their March Madness brackets on their favorite texting app. The GodDam arrogance of these people is what will eventually bring this country down.
Jesus Christ. I bet he was super cereal about it, too. South Park writers can save themselves some time and just copy and paste the storyline for season 27. No edits needed.
Perhaps they left security out if security job description.. their one job is to keep America secure , they failed security 101 which every teenager in the world could teach them
Using acronyms like little kids giddy to prove that they are powerful, all-knowing, beyond reproach...in reality without principles, values, honor, shame.
Agreed. First thing that popped. Know who can explain that to Intelligence committee? Gee, it’s kinda tough, maybe the idiot who most likely OWNS all the Stephen Seagal dvds
and that, on a totally INSECURE platform...
Total incompetence, matched only by his total stupidity. Maybe he thinks if he SAYS it, that it will magically be so?
OPSEC = Only People Sadly Engaging in Cosplay? Yes. Clean. OPSEC = Operational Security, and/or Operational Professionals Secure and Encrypt Communications? Nope. This is the most incompetent President and Administration in American History.
Imagine if Goldberg was never added to the chat.
How many more TS/SCI chats would those fools be having on Signal while the rest of America remains never the wiser.
In the end it doesn't matter the app that was used, this is not how you handle security operations. A lot of money is spent every year to make proper communication on sensitive info, convenient as possible. There are protocols in place & they are required to be used. This protects info & lives.
Yes, our frikkin tax dollars pay for that shit, only for them NOT to use it bc they are total morons who can't do basic stuff and are 100% uncurious to learn.
Not total morons in the choice of Signal. They purposely chose it to not archive any of their treasonous actions. This is far more nefarious than an oopsie.
I agree with this. I think it's clear government is claiming that information on the deportation flights is so highly classified that they cannot share it with the judge even "in camera" because DOJ used Signal and deleted the texts and so have no communications to show. That'll be the real story.
While I generally try not to attribute to malevolence what can be explained by stupidity, I think it's fairly likely that they were motivated by the lack of archives on Signal.
We need to stop giving these clowns the benefit of stupidity. Including the head clown. Yes they are stupid but their actions are stupid with clear intentions.
The point is...they can't even subterfuge correctly bc they are too dumb. Even if they watched the training vids, they are too incompetent to follow through correctly. Criminal and DUMB
On the "attack plans" vs. "war plans" front, would our men & women in uniform have been safer if these were merely "attack plans" they leaked on Signal? They can call it whatever they want, semantics don't change the fact that they put peoples' lives in danger & that's THE issue. The ONLY ISSUE!
Elon Musk said everyone should use Signal:
Signal saw a massive rise in use in the U.S. …..in 2021 after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. It also got a burst that year when ……..megamillionaire Elon Musk tweeted a suggestion for everyone to "use Signal."
This story is fucking incredible. Every new detail only makes if so much worse. The release of a message saying “per our first signal group” (suggesting this has happened before and will happen again) to the release of the timetable and aircraft and missiles used… just incredible incompetence.
As the daughter, granddaughter, niece, and partner of vets, I can pretty much guarantee you that they'd appreciate it if we'd all shut the fuck up with our cute little quips about their lives being endangered. Like, stop it now. This is very serious and we need to act accordingly.
“Pretending they know how things work” is a point that should get so hammered in. Trump just talked about this yesterday like it was a phone call. Whether that was his or anyone else’s failure along the way shouldn’t matter—it happened _at all_.
Yup, dangerous incompetence on full display! Now y’all know what it looks like when you hire loyalists over experience. Yikes a total government shit show that’s what you get! 🤪😵💫
Doesn't Hegseth saying "We are currently clean on OPSEC" suggest he considered the messages being conveyed over Signal were classified, m/b top-secret?
I don’t think this incident was required to demonstrate his incompetence, frankly, my point was that if he believed that Signal was secure it was yet more proof and not a defence.
Is anyone concerned that there was an air strike on another country and copresident Trump keeps saying he knew nothing about it. If President Biden had said it they would ask who is in control.
Please step back and see this for what it is. They broke the law endangered the mission and national security and released a name of a CIA agent in the clear. But in Trump/Putin's mind even this is a success creating more Division/Chaos for our country.
I keep thinking about "The White House Plumbers" (series about the "geniuses" involved in Watergate) and feel like it should be required viewing for everyone right now.
While this isn’t the most relevant part of the story, why did Waltz have Goldberg’s contact info, given his description of Jeffrey as “the bottom scum of journalists" and referred to him as "vile"?
Current post-modern GOP logic, "when he was typing it and before he hit send, the journalist hadn't see it yet so the claim was valid as he was typing it, and its the journalists fault for being in the chat and reading the plans he wasn't privileged to, even though no biggie, nothing is classified".
We were told Hillary should be LOCKED UP for the existence of a server no one knew about until republicans dug around trying to find dirt. How are the people in the chat not fired yet?
Telling an unauthorized contact that operational security covering their communication is working properly!
Well, perhaps working as properly as anything else in MAGA world. Everything’s relative.
This is Watergate to the 10th power with the NSA warning about the app back in February, Steve Witkoff being in Moscow at the time he was on the chat and then the Pentagon-wide advisory on 3/18/25 put out a memo saying a Russia hacking group was perpetrating the app to spy WTF
Fox News today it was a journalist's fault. And if you read the comments under Fox News, you'll see that they go straight into Biden and everything else that went wrong under there. No one cares about making a change. We need to change today.Need to make sure this doesn't happen again
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Clearly Putin and the Houthis should have been included as participants in that Signal chat. 😉 I keep thinking of the collapse of France in the spring of 1940
how can the military trust him he does not understand the ramifications of getting this wrong...clearly incompetent-how clean is discussing war plans on Signal using unsecured phones & not verifying who is in on this text thread?send him back to fox news-i would not use the word "accident"-failure
Please focus on vp Vance warns NOT to bomb Yemen. Tulsi says PUTIN needs our help! ( putin uses SUEZ to avoid EU sanctions) We r going to WARS plural for putin. He wants Greenland & Canada for DECADES! Panama Canal too! Trump 1st term bombed SYRIA FOR PUTIN! Killed 7 US soldiers
There was not a "need to know" by any reporter. Donnie boy how about negotiating a trillion dollars for keeping the waterways open? You're a peasant, right? You must get paid for the dirty work.
How dare the world expect us to keep it free!
Need to hammer home the point that using Signal or any other non official secure communication method means there is no official record anywhere in the government for future administrations! This is treason.
Apparently there were 15-18 people in the chat. So a lot of people who shouldn't have been there could have seen everything. Potentially. Do they even have a secure record of who all those people were?
I don't like to make fun of people with disabilities, but you really do have to question whether he was drinking and whether his drinking has affected his brain. There are multiple ways even after you stop drinking that your judgment can be impaired for life. :/
Any writer or director would’ve been torched if they brought that up as an idea for their next movie
Yea, they accidentally invite a journalists they hate to a chat group talking about plans to attack Yemen in real time…get the F out of my office and stop holding your hits in so long dude
Don't ever forget Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, 11yr old girl who took her life after kids threatened to call ICE on her parents. Racism is up in America and in our schools because of MAGA and Trump. This needs to be addressed and fought before another suicide happens again! https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/education/immigration-colorado-schools
If you live in the DMV area, you need to start mobilizing demonstrations NOW in front of the Pentagon, DNI HQ, NSA HQ, and the CIA HQ until Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, and Waltz are fired or resign. #SignalGate @moveon.org @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org @aclu.org @fightforprogress.org
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YOU GOTTA KEEP THIS STORY ALIVE… WE CANNOT LET THIS BE SWEPT UNDER THE RUG…
ALSO COULD YOU AMPLIFY RachelM’s CALL FOR BIG LAW FIRMS TO GROW A PAIR & COLLECTIVELY OPPOSE HERR DRUMPF’s EOs…
And 'mission accomplished' about a war at the dawn of that 20+ year war.
It's staggering for people in their position.
Just to be clear
You know..he can't be a racist, he has a Black friend. That kind of stuff.
They have shirked responsibility, abdicated their authority to Trump and Musk and are cowering in the bowels of Mar a Lago (or other undisclosed location -- At least we know they're NOT hiding in a Town Hall somewhere!!)
Did hegseth mean "clear" or "clean"?
Total incompetence, matched only by his total stupidity. Maybe he thinks if he SAYS it, that it will magically be so?
How many more TS/SCI chats would those fools be having on Signal while the rest of America remains never the wiser.
Same with Schumer signing off & giving them a free pass. We can't hold them accountable when we give in to no oversight.
They deleted the papertrail.
https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/signal-chat-lawsuit-boasberg-signalgate-rcna198186
Might even be required for Project2050?
Signal saw a massive rise in use in the U.S. …..in 2021 after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. It also got a burst that year when ……..megamillionaire Elon Musk tweeted a suggestion for everyone to "use Signal."
Where's my free pony?
Why?
Because they fired all of the senior staff who knew security protocols like the back of their hands.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/02/how-one-security-firm-tracked-anonymousand-paid-a-heavy-price/
It’s so clear they are the last picked forever and with seriously good reason
I thank God that I’m an atheist.
Mediocrity seems to be an asset with this gang of clowns.
Outer
Perineum
Secure
Exceptionally
Concealed
'OPSEC'? That sounds like somethin' the government cooked up. You reckon it's somethin' we oughta know about?
Raygun is the best.
"Made in the U.S. by attractive Midwesterners." Lol
https://bsky.app/profile/raygunsite.com/post/3llcko7satk2h
that needs
asking
EVERYDAY
WHERE WERE THE DOGE BOYS AND STARLINK
11/05/2024
WTF were they doing?
Call Reps and Senate
202-224-3121
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Well, perhaps working as properly as anything else in MAGA world. Everything’s relative.
Fox News journos must be jealous though, especially since Hegshared is one of them.
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No, wait.. NOW we're clean.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/25/us/signal-group-chat-text-annotations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.604.WIp2.lqy74HdL3RCW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
There was not a "need to know" by any reporter. Donnie boy how about negotiating a trillion dollars for keeping the waterways open? You're a peasant, right? You must get paid for the dirty work.
How dare the world expect us to keep it free!
EU, take out Iran!
There are several people w to the A team involved, not just a couple of folks.
Our national security is in the hands of these talented fellas, OFTEN, that don't do basic checks!
NSA can't keep up , when Trump's team keeps helping the adversary 🤬
Yea, they accidentally invite a journalists they hate to a chat group talking about plans to attack Yemen in real time…get the F out of my office and stop holding your hits in so long dude
For all who recall Peanuts…
“Here’s the Secretary of Defense talking military talk…”
What did they do to convince themselves they were clean on OPSEC?
Or is it just a phrase they heard in a movie?
https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/education/immigration-colorado-schools