My only very slight errata here is to amplify what's contained in "discovery". It's not just FOIA. It's what happens when that intelligence officer reviews the discussions and realizes, "They just treasoned. I think I have to report this." Trump already had that happen. - ThreadSky

joshtpm.bsky.social • 33 days ago

My only very slight errata here is to amplify what's contained in "discovery". It's not just FOIA. It's what happens when that intelligence officer reviews the discussions and realizes, "They just treasoned. I think I have to report this." Trump already had that happen.

Reposted from Joe Beda

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

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funmandave.bsky.social•32 days ago

Are you referring to Flynn in the first term, or something more recent?

bike2beer.bsky.social•32 days ago

I assumed it was a reference to the first impeachment.

funmandave.bsky.social•32 days ago

That also fits. The fact that we have multiple possibilities is so damning.

brendanamartin.bsky.social•33 days ago

The chat already hinted at sordid little extortion schemes against our allies. Here’s some from Stephen Miller:

“If the US successfully restores freedom of navigation at great cost there needs to be some further economic gain extracted in return.”… \1

brendanamartin.bsky.social•33 days ago

…Their notion of “economic gain” is to “extract” it, like diamonds, oil, teeth, confessions under torture, etc.
Just a mafia class opposed to the rule of law and broad prosperity, generally. \2

buckleup36.bsky.social•33 days ago

And why in the hell is Stephen Miller party to sensitive military ops? Is he running the country along with Musk?

Or the real estate guy from the Bronx, Steve Witcoff, who has ZERO military or diplomatic experience. (except for recently meeting Putin and spewing RU talking points)

brendanamartin.bsky.social•33 days ago

He’s running the gulags.

blorgu.bsky.social•33 days ago

This way the only people who have evidence of their crimes are the MSS and GRU officers who hacked their insecure personal phones.

alexnico2.bsky.social•33 days ago

Wonder how much NSA is collecting and keeping

claudialamb.bsky.social•33 days ago

But her emails...

pfiore8.bsky.social•32 days ago

treason is fucking right. but what did y'all think it was when Trump just let Musk sabotage our cyber infrastructure?

edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social•32 days ago

Question: How many *other* Signal chats have been used to evade Federal Records Act? How many have already been deleted? How many will we never know existed?

Is anyone making a bunch of #FOIA requests and/or FRA complaints related to these?

le-freak-kashyyyk.bsky.social•33 days ago

What does every intel officer or service member think when they’re asked to put their life on the line? Will they accidentally leak this op and get me killed?

elsargentogarcia.bsky.social•33 days ago

Pete kept asking if the Enola [redacted] is ready for another mission.

rationalpear.bsky.social•33 days ago

he’s gone full mafia boss. Assume the FBI is listening.

icecreampirate.bsky.social•33 days ago

I think this is closer to the real motivation. This conversation would never have been subject to a FOIA request.

davidaugust.bsky.social•33 days ago

Also, @signal.org has old messages, encrypted, on their servers, even if they’re deleted from the devices user was using.

So, say a government investigation or something that might be able to crack the encryption be able to recover those “vanishing” messages.

They don’t even crime well.

czarrella.bsky.social•33 days ago

This is very interesting. I didn't know this. So 3rd parties - Russians, Chinese, Iranians - can recover those messages too. What a bunch of evil clowns this administration are.

pottersville.bsky.social•33 days ago

Didn't we already know they were doing this?
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/jared-kushner-whatsapp-foreign-contacts-lawyer-tells-congress/story?id=61843329

bluememe.bsky.social•32 days ago

It sure would be nice if any of the Democrats who are scolding the administration on this would make the larger points that (a) avoiding legally mandated comms is endemic in this administration and (b) it is endemic for very dangerous reasons.