it is pretty funny that the director of the CIA got invited to a group chat and didn't check who was in there, glad it's being brought up to his face lmao - ThreadSky

iwriteok.bsky.social • 3 days ago

it is pretty funny that the director of the CIA got invited to a group chat and didn't check who was in there, glad it's being brought up to his face lmao

Reposted from Aaron Rupar

BENNET: Don't insult the intelligence of the American people. Did Goldberg invite himself to the Signal thread?

RATCLIFFE: I don't know how he was invited. I've seen conflicting reports.

B: You're the CIA director! Why didn't you call out that he was present... this is just a normal day at the CIA

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antiqueorunique.bsky.social•3 days ago

But they had good OPSEC lol

bmaull.bsky.social•3 days ago

How does anyone on that chat still have a job?

bmaull.bsky.social•3 days ago

I mean apart from the reporter. Give that man a raise.

bigwiggler.bsky.social•3 days ago

What an absolute disgrace. Both horridly evil and terribly incompetent.

synthwavekane.bsky.social•3 days ago

literally Bennett right now

aurelienmorel.bsky.social•3 days ago

This bit is so much better.

Ratliffe is holding the same job as Bush Sr, a man who skated through Iran-Contra.

How is it possible?

maik.zumstrull.net•3 days ago

It's worth thinking about *how* you would even check.

Anyone can set their display name to anything.

You have to verify phone numbers to start, and you couldn't check them against a government directory because those are personal phones,

maik.zumstrull.net•3 days ago

and then you'd have to check Signal keys ("safety numbers" in Signal parlance) in case they've been SIM swapped,

and then have them pinky swear their device probably doesn't have spyware on it,

maik.zumstrull.net•3 days ago

and then surely at some point during that whole thing you would hopefully notice, oh wow we need to just be using official channels for this, what we're doing is insane.

Or, well, you don't, because you suck at your job.

prac0691.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yeah, but: 1) fix your glasses you look like a doofus 2) are we sure that's not Michael Scott

onewokecitizen.bsky.social•3 days ago

What the hell does it say about our intelligence capabilities that the director of the CIA can’t get to the bottom of who added the reporter? Either he’s lying or incompetent. Don’t know what’s worse 🤦🏽‍♂️

jcasey73.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is priceless.

charleswilliam313.bsky.social•3 days ago

Lmfao they're so fucking bad at literally everything. Fascism will always fail and fail spectacularly because it's an ideology by and for complete fuckups with delusions of grandeur. Unfortunately it tends to hurt and kill a lot of innocent people in its fuckuperry.

apriciajovialis.bsky.social•2 days ago

Don't forget the infighting.

greenglassworm.bsky.social•3 days ago

For a second I wonder if this is Signal's Tesla on the WH Lawn moment... then I remember that it's really just down to incompetence.

pipsdontsqueak.bsky.social•3 days ago

Mike Waltz is Shallow Throat

drhello.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3ll7m4dlcmm2s

nohvah00.bsky.social•3 days ago

"I didn't know..."

Mother fucker, that is LITERALLY your ONE JOB!

berserkerpiglet.bsky.social•3 days ago

Anyone thinking the cia is made up of devastatingly smart people should read Legacy Of Ashes and learn about how often the org looked to James Bond movies as inspirations for things that were actually possible. This seems pretty inline with that.

varric-fan69.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes!!! So many operatives just thrown away

hallbra6.bsky.social•3 days ago

Good job buddy 👍

morning-gold.bsky.social•3 days ago

When my SO and I were talking about this last night, I commented on this exact thing, as well as discussed how this was done to avoid FOIA. Why did no one ask who the silent person was?

thehalfling.bsky.social•3 days ago

Hey... one of my Senators did A Thing (tm). Still intending to vote against him in the primary for everything else this year, but nice to see!

stegosaurus-rex.bsky.social•3 days ago

You know they've fucked up when they act more brain damaged than usual.

nicopicoticolico.bsky.social•3 days ago

Geez Robert , why is the director of the CIA , and heead of the military talking about war on a commercial app !!! That's against your countries law. I thought they were on the law and order party

antilinguist.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is going to devastate the people trying to write Jason Bourne CIA characters as efficient, tech savvy, informed leaders and agents.
Breaking the 4th wall, permanently.

graynewt.bsky.social•3 days ago

That's fine, none of the real people have Brian Cox's gravitas anyway.

(buh-buh-bup buh-buhhhh i'm lovin it)

graynewt.bsky.social•3 days ago

As an aside, I had *such* a huge crush on Julia Stiles when I was younger (Kat Stratford was the ideal gal in my 90s teen eyes), I was both pleased by her presence in the Bourne universe and disappointed that she wasn't a bigger part of it.

sgtcarlino.bsky.social•3 days ago

Ah yes the party of Hilary emails, Hilary emailed themselves.

entrylevelforlife.bsky.social•3 days ago

I could watch CIA directors get roasted all day, man.

nefariousdro.bsky.social•3 days ago

There was a memo only days before this that was sent to all department of defense and homeland security people about dangerous vulnerabilities in that very application. This is beyond incompetence. People should be getting arrested.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/23/1130256624/oxford-north-carolina-civil-rights-ben-chavis-henry-marrow

derridont.bsky.social•2 days ago

Burn After Reading aging like a fine wine:

"What did we learn Palmer?"

"I don't know sir"

"I don't fucking know either... I guess we learned don't do it again. Although I'm fucked if I know what the fuck we did"

"It's hard to say sir"

"Jesus fucking christ"

*closes dossier, roll credits*

oneoddfellow.bsky.social•3 days ago

Bout to text him that he owes an EZPass payment and link my Venmo.

mrnagrom.bsky.social•3 days ago

if somebody invited me to this group chat. i would teach them everything there is to know about cauliflower anus.

shake1n1bake.bsky.social•3 days ago

To be fair, telling lies that insult the intelligence of the American people is a core function of the CIA Director

ldacker.bsky.social•3 days ago

The derp state is REAL!

strontiumdredd.bsky.social•3 days ago

I personally miss the peaceful days before Signal was invented when there was no way to plan and execute wars.

lunarobverse.bsky.social•3 days ago

What are the chances any of the rank and file CIA employees would make that mistake?

drgonzo123.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s cool. He fired the CIA.

iwriteok.bsky.social•3 days ago

like 70% probably

moreanonhandle.bsky.social•3 days ago

The rank and file CIA employees don’t get to use their personal phones on campus! But yes, they’re not superhuman or anything

downtownkitty.com•3 days ago

lunarobverse.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’m skeptical but I trust your instincts

Seems like something that would be in the employee handbook

iwriteok.bsky.social•3 days ago

sure but how often do you do things your job says you're not technically supposed to do

lunarobverse.bsky.social•3 days ago

Fair point

morning-gold.bsky.social•3 days ago

Fairly high. There was an unnamed CIA officer who was in the chat for the DCI.

kittysmooch.bsky.social•3 days ago

probably reasonably high lmfao

adamscottglancy.bsky.social•3 days ago

You don't remember the 22 CIA agents who got convicted in absentia by an Italian court for kidnapping Abu Omar? They were identified because the abduction team all had their personal cell phones with them, and turned on, when they snatched Omar off the street.

lunarobverse.bsky.social•3 days ago

I do not!

That sounds bad.

adamscottglancy.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case#:~:text=Abu%20Omar%20was%20abducted%20on,ally%2C%20the%20Mubarak%20regime.%22

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