And the Democrats in the Senate and the House will do absolutely nothing to make sure the people know *that* is the most serious danger facing us all.
What have they been doing the whole time before now? We'll never know.
Wouldn’t it be great if he resigned and the Congressional seat he resigned earlier is flipped blue about the same time - April 1. Josh Weil for Congress FL-6.!
He might have been the one to invite the reporter but that is the least of the problems. Using a non secure app like that by all the top members of the security community is nuts. They ALL know better.
So not one other person on that chat wasn’t concerned that they were using Signal and discussing top secret stuff except a journalist ? Not the DNI, not Secretary of State? DOD dude? Vice President???? What the holy hell!!!!! Unbelievable 🤬
Several involved had experience and should have known better. Smells like an edict in Trump admin not to leave records. Ironic decision to use a platform that is probably compromised and invite a reporter,
I never want to hear Russia Russia Russia AGAIN! Witkoff was in the Kremlin when this chat took place!!!!!! I could care less who they try and pin this on.
Everybody on that chat should be held to account...none have any honor, just lie and cover up. Not a single one stepping forward admitting to screwing up and asking for forgiveness. All Republicans were apoplectic about Clinton emails...now, it's no big deal...let the clown show roll on.
When the guy at the top said, "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters," you have to know that consequences aren't something any of them worry about.
wasn't it just last week trump was trying to make Rubio the fall guy. and he is on this call too..... trump is living vicariously through Hegseth, so that one's not going anywhere.
I mean I don’t use Signal but if I accidentally misdial a phone number what are the statistical odds I reach the Editor in Chief of a major journalism outlet??? No one thinks this smells??
Someone intentional included the reporter because they knew what he would do with the breach. They also knew he wouldn't leak TSCI info because He WAS a patriot.
That’s exactly my point. And yet the administration is standing behind Mike Waltz, who should have been pancaked several times over by the proverbial bus by now. But Trump would rather double down on being wildly wrong than publicly admit he’s got a rat.
Isn’t this what happened last time, they started dropping like flies, then juicy stories were coming out, and then he was impeached? Let’s move the process along, let’s just jump to impeachment. We have enough receipts.
Rubio outta what 16 people on this chat should know better than the rest of this incompetent circus Signal is not to be used. And not one person here looked at the participants and said who is Goldberg? Bro…..communications 101. My God. And why were 2 Secretary of Treasury reps on this chat?
Two months in they'll find someone to throw under the bus while denying it even happened. Two years from now they'll just smile and move on to the next crime
It should fall on everyone. They ALL used a communication platform not approved. Every.Single.One.
And this is all smoke and mirrors.
We are planning attacks on Europe ffs.
Where are the Democratic Senators, House Reps? They should be on all the morning shows explaining how dangerous this leak is and calling for firings, if not legal consequences for all involved.
It won’t matter because by 5:00 PM EDT, some other imbecile will no doubt have done something even way worse than this, and it will be onto them lying and gaslighting us about the next tRUmp-chaos-crisis
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Surprised Hannity wasn’t in on this. They got caught up previously because of their texts so this time they decided to do it with disappearing texts…so they thought.
He’ll “waltz” into Jabba the Trump’s office, bow before the throne, offer his resignation which Jabba will refuse and they’ll all move onto the next travesty in this chamber of horrors.
All of Felon47’s cabinet picks are idiots just like their leader. It is like they are the Three Stooges x 47. When is someone going to put a stop to this utter madness? Each day is putting our nation and citizens at risk.
Waltz could’ve known how they felt about him and played whistleblower on the chat. He either knew they wouldn’t notice the journalist or was amazed and lucky they didn’t. He had to know Russia exploited weaknesses in Signal when Ukrainian military personnel used it.
I didn’t by at all. I meant that other people have his ear and he’s carrying out their ideas and plans. That makes him extremely vulnerable to manipulation, as Russia discovered decades ago along with his unpredictability.
This violation of the Espionage Act isn’t really about Walz; the VP of the US, it’s Secretary of State & other top officials used a non-secure app to transmit & discuss war plans.
WTAF?
Don't think it'll be him - they had to jump thru so many hoops to get him in and even his mother had to call in for votes that they need to save face and not have him fall on his face this fast.
In the normal world, they'd all go. But can Hegseth survive calling opsec 'clean' when he can't manage a group of 18 ppl w/out spotting that one shouldn't be there (obvs none of them should have been on signal)?
Ok, but no way Rubio, Vance, Gabbard, Hegseth, Bessent should get a pass on this. Rubio most of all. Not one of them is fit for office. They should all be shamed into resigning, since of course the classified documents thief and traitor-in-chief will never fire them.
They all logged in to the inappropriate app to discuss things that are not allowed to be discussed in this way: the deliberate lack of a record shows all of them knowingly breaching the law
They then proceeded to take sensitive documents from a secure terminal and put it in an unsecured one. That’s active, non of that is passive, going along.
The Trump administration is going to stay miles away from any instrument of accountability. Only those determined to commit egregious acts, need to operate in the dark.
“You can’t have recklessness as the national security adviser.” 🤣🤣🤣
Senior administration official, the defining features of this POP (Party of Putin) administration are recklessness and criminality.
No, I hope Trump defends Walz with his usual “ admit nothing “ R. Cohn strategy and attacks the media, etc., that way they’ll be more fuck ups in the future with this lame-o team and their amateurish ineptitude.
I remember thinking, when Waltz was nominated, his wife was FAR more qualified to be national security advisor than he was. She is far, far, FAR more educated. Her entire career has BEEN in Intelligence, for the Army, and then for multiple administrations.
I understand these security officials have vowed never to use Signals for conversations involving national security. They will immediately be moving on to a more secure interface like Tik Tok.
I’ve been thinking about how Peter Hegseth questioned whether the Black four-star general and Air Force pilot got the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff position "because of his skin color or his skills." The doubt always lingers.
Every single one of them is culpable. They ALL knew better. They were doing it to escape oversight and laws that require them to retain records of their activities. They put our troops in jeopardy for criminal intentions. They’re ALL impeachable RIGHT NOW.
Don’t let that be a reason to acquiesce to their appropriation of power. We must use every crime and crisis as rhetorical ammunition to vanquish this coup at the grassroots. We must exhaust all nonviolent means, first, by every means possible.
Well, we should use this to build the groundswell for flipping both Houses of Congress to bright blue and veto-proof starting with primary elections, which begin in about 60 weeks. Then, we can start the FAFO Congress of 2027.
There is no NCO or Officer in the US Military that would not have been aware that texting on a text chain on Signal was not secure. No one with any care about our military would ever, ever, have done what this leadership did.
Because it couldn’t possibly be the drunk running the military who thought it was appropriate to plan a military attack on signal…then give emojis like an immature middle schooler.
Someone has to fall! But they should be asking what were they all doing on an app that can’t be archived and why are they ALL so incompetent that they willingly put military lives at risk.
💯There is no single "fall guy" for this. All of them are guilty - they are all supposed to be "leaders", and all *supposed* to be competent. You shouldn't get to the top of the government in the United States of America and be THIS FUCKING STUPID.
Absolutely, and for the public to have to listen to politically-motivated denials from the DNI or CIA is total garbage. They ought to be contrite—Jeff Goldberg has plenty more that he might be able to share.
He’s why they got caught but using signal in this way was the bigger problem- Hegseth dumped the plans on an unclassified channel and ambassador was in Moscow so….
I'm sorry but these so called "best people" don't even check to see who is on the "chat line". Even the head of the CIA. Come on...how really stupid is she?
No one thought to verify the people on that chat were need to know? These idiots are so thirsty for praise they’ll invite their whole gang for that extra slap on the back.
They are acting like the appalling scandal is accidentally including a journalist on the thread. There isn’t even going to be an acknowledgement of the bigger security issues revealed.
People are burying the lead here. Classified information should NEVER have been discussed or exchanged on a non-classified system that was not certified to protect information at the proper level. PERIOD! END OF SENTENCE! They are all guilty of mishandling classified information at the very least.
Very much this. Blaming Waltz is a statement that including Goldberg was the biggest problem with this episode, which it very much is not. As usual, they are mad about being caught, not the actual bad thing that happened.
They are only upset that a journalist was inadvertently added to the chat group. ABSOLUTELY ZERO concern that it was carried out on a nonsecure commercial app without complying with record keeping laws. Because of course this is SOP for this administration.
Any one of them could have said "Guys let's take this some place else." No? How hard would that be. They obviously use Signal all the time for anything and everything since nobody seemed one bit bothered by it.
Yeah, but should it? He added the journo so maybe the lion’s share, but did any of these Sr. NatSec & Intel officials question who was in the group, whether they had clearances, or why they were private phones on Signal? Hegseth, especially shared a LOT without “clean OpSec,”contrary to his claim.
Which is patently wrong. All of this is Goldberg’s fault. It was his responsibility to to correct Waltz’s error, much like it’s the responsibility of people of color in America to protect their own lives & liberty by de-escalating the misuse & abuse of power by law enforcement. He should be ashamed.
Oh, they had training. They just don't care. Or, in fact, they do care. Using a SCIF would have put them back in the realm of generating proper documentation, and they don't want to do that. So, they are also violating federal record keeping laws.
Weirdly, there was nothing inherently bad about the attack on the Houthi militia. Lots of shitty anti-ally commentary from the usual a-holes, but so what. But they seem intent on hiding everything as a matter of course. So where are the signal threads on the El Salvador renditions?
Keep in mind these are the assholes A team. Call and email your representatives DAILY and demand they honor their oaths to the constitution. And demand the resignation and criminal prosecution of Hegseth and the cabinet members involved.
everyone in that Signal should resign or be fired by noon today. done finished. confiscate all their devices and find out how many more security breaches there are. If not the trump himself needs to resign, he is the top one responsible.
Rule #1 when running a country... Never put the security of the nation at the mercy of a group of unqualified morons. This clown is unfit to hold office!
The real idiot is whoever decided Signal was an appropriate place to discuss war planning but Trump can’t fire himself for directing his staff to avoid FOIA requests.
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I really hope Jeff Goldblum
What have they been doing the whole time before now? We'll never know.
Frankly, Hegseth belongs in Leavenworth
We already know the national insecurity team was using Signal to avoid record retention laws and accountability.
We need to know who set up the chat and added a journalist.
More importantly …
WHO ORDERED THE TEAM TO USE Signal INSTEAD OF A SCIF?
It wasn’t Trump.
DOUCH team🤬
What of Hegseth's giving a step-by-step of the military operation & putting troops at risk?
WH is mad bc they got caught, not bc they were reckless.
And this is all smoke and mirrors.
We are planning attacks on Europe ffs.
Maybe Russia calls him “Russia’s boyfriend.”
But seriously this is a disaster or in Drumpfland reasons for medals all around.
Trump is usually so meticulous in his choices for NSA.
😃
WTAF?
Every official who used this app to discuss national security secrets has committed a crime.
The troops can't trust him.
And now allies can't trust the US.
Who wins when Hegseth and Waltz turn on each other?
America.
The Buck stops where,exactly ?
Senior administration official, the defining features of this POP (Party of Putin) administration are recklessness and criminality.
Using Signal for these things: Every single one of them.
They all need to go.
#Unconscionable
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Mike Waltz: you’re it.
Nothing is what it seems today
Also why Treasury on the chat?
Could Waltz have added journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to the chat on purpose as a way to push Hegseth out?
I’m fairly certain a reporter being added wasn’t an accident.
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Then there’s Witkoff in the Kremlin using Signal on a non-secure phone.
Tulsi and Ratliff should have known.
It isn't mutually exclusive.
h/t That Mitchell and Webb Look
That’s evident!