BREAKING: A high level information security source inside the Department of Defense says they were ordered by political appointees to ignore information security regulations and install Signal on government phones for senior leaders.
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Project 2025 recommended using Signal specifically to leave no evidence trail and subvert FOIA requests. Who knows what else has gone down on Signal. This was criminal intent and should be charged accordingly.
The only reason they would do this is that Signal deletes all messages after a short time. There won't be any evidence of their fraud and perfidy on Signal and private corporations aren't required to respond to FOIA requests.
That is most probable since all the super powers have the ability to intercept & decode normal Internet traffic. This is why the DOD disallows apps like Signal which travel the public Internet and run on server farms owned by private corporations. For all we know, Signal runs on something like AWS.
The US, which is not a party to the ICC, has protested the Court trying people from non-signatory states, like Israel, and has sanctioned members of the ICC after warrants were issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
At The Hague??
Everyone in this administration that participated in or was complicit in war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture, kidnapping, murder, espionage, sedition, etc....
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to halt offensive cyber operations and information operations against Russia, a U.S. official familiar with the matter said.".
A former FB employee who didn’t like the privacy ethics fb employs. So if he has any ethics at all - he would make an exception and keep all of this admin’s messages.
And why did they go against standing orders re Signal? Because they know they’re doing illegal stuff and they want to avoid leaving a traceable trail that could be subpoenaed.
All the people before saying "The Troops/Agents will never let fascism happen in the US, they will stand up to it." Must really feel stupid right about now huh?
Not surprising for this administration. No paper trails. If they are allowed to get away with this there will be more and more corruption. This must be stopped. Republicans are in charge, do your duty to your Country and to the Constitution and finally to the Rule of Law.
😳😳😳😳 wow just a complete criminal administration this shit is gonna be so bad people have no idea what’s about to happen even those maga supporters that are out here with us have a very rude awakening coming when they find out they are not part of the club of billionaires
This needs to go viral. This aligns with P2025's recommendations of no paper trail to subpoena later. They don't want evidence of what they are doing and they are violating security regulations to do so.
I finally opened a Substack account just to read this and it was well worth it. Let’s make sure that committee staffers are aware so that their bosses are armed with this info at the next congressional hearings. #signalgate
Which one of the recipients lied AGAIN and said their phones came with signal pre-installed like it's a manufacturer issue? One of them did, I think it was Gabbard
my humour side says. Oh great all know Don's diaper size.
MY real side: "WTF". every country in the world will now hack the shit out of the USA and no matter what the USA does, all knows well ahead,. The USA is North Korea, but NK has a smarter leader
France really needs to take back the Statue of Liberty. Their new values do not represent anything truthful except a loud mouth and ignoring rule of law and regulations that are the bedrock of democracy.
Is America just leaking out all their vital security information?! How many other chats are they holding like this? Every single person on that chat thought this was normal and had ZERO concerns.
PLEASE MAINTAIN THE DIGNITY OF YOUR POSITION BY CONFINING ALL CLASSIFIED DISCUSSIONS INVOLVING GOVERNMENTAL AND SENSITIVE INFORMATION TO A SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility)
Elon Musk's "election integrity" community on his platform X has become a repository for Election misinformation. Galvanizing more than 58,000 members to report instances of "voter fraud or irregularities" that are often unsubstantiated, misleading or flat-out fabricated.
Can you please PLEASE stop accepting Shopify as a sponsor? They are owned by Poiliverve's extreme maple maga twat friends and plan to be part a Canadian version of Doge if Poilievre gets elected. #cdnpoli
Echoing this, Meidas Touch. Appreciate the coverage of Canada-US relations, but the CEO is out there re-tweeting Musk, supports the fascist Poilievre & the COO's wife has a far right conspiracy rag that attacked the PM's trans daughter - they both co-founded a RW conspiracy theory propaganda rag
Please, y'all: THIS is what "centrists" DO cuz, see, "swing" voters really want Trump to disassemble the fed'l gov't and make, say, impossible to use the SSA and (soon) have Medicaid cover nursing home care. And don't want an NWS, NOAA, parks service or air traffic control.
This is coming into focus now! Hiding communications from FOIA & disregarding record preservation rules appears to be the primary goal for using Signal - particularly given that Waltz set this particular chat about attacking Yemen to erase after 1 week! 😳
Using Signal for discussing war plans seems stupid and reckless. No way to protect what Republicans love to call our “warfighters.” Setting the chat to expire seems like an illegal way to avoid the Presidential Records Act.
Yep - even Project 2025 cautioned them against using any system that retains the records - no FOIA that way & it avoids ability for anyone to subpoena the records!
But he can do this all with impunity knowing there are zero fucks given about No1 his actions and No2 the law. Who’s going to stop him? Congress? The courts? The military? He’s doing whatever he wants. We’re on here bitching. So what? They are winning. Maybe Taco Bell or McDonald’s will save us.
Yeah well we can be as outraged as always but at the end of all the screaming still nothing is going to change, nothing happens, barely anyone is going to be held accountable until the next thing, then repeat. Their is never any accountability for the “ruling class”
Not true.
They were warned not to use it. All were on their private phones.
Not a government issued phone.
Have you seen the doc about how easy it is to hack & clone phones?
I suggest reading Ground News & BBC News (free) if you want facts instead of fairy tales.
Because the chats are not officially recorded as required by law. These white collared criminals are doing what they know best…breaking the law for their own gains.
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Americans are less safe now than 3 months ago. I'm tired of this administration's hypermasculine patriotic bullshit. Real heroes follow protocols that designed to keep our service members, intelligence personnel, and citizens safe.
And whomever the “political appointee” was that told everyone in the government to install Signal for subversion, should be removed and possibly imprisoned.
omg. 🙄 I'm not sure many realize this- but Signal has a desktop version. I have it. Every message I send on my cell phone Signal appears on my PC Signal app. Are they installing them there, too??!
So every phone in govt that has Signal installed is now compromised thanks to Witkoff being in Moscow during the "war" chat. And isn't all correspondence supposed to be retained?? Unless there is some shady sh*t going on.
It's almost as if the most inept, inexperienced, unqualified, callous, bigoted, racist, un-American hate mongering felons, criminals, and cronies were running the government.
#Trump #GOP
They don't command the military. The military gives an oath to the Constitution, not to the president. If the president tries to unlawfully retain power, it is the military's sworn duty and honor to side with the American people, and I have absolutely no doubt that they would uphold their oath
No one has to order it. It is the sworn oath every service member takes upon induction into the military, and their duty and honor to uphold, but there are plenty of top level officers who would no doubt remind their fellow service members about their oath
As a fairly recently retired servicemember, I can say with absolute confidence that they only way this will happen is if the right members in upper levels of leadership make it happen. Your average servicemember might want to, but won't on their own.
They get rid of everything that should be kept like federal workers, but they don’t get rid of the signal app that they’re supposed to get rid of. Makes perfect sense.
So, another thought I have had. Which "Jeff" or "Goldberg" were they really trying to invite to the chat? I feel like there is some hidden billionaire Peter Theil type they were trying to include. Maybe from the Heritage Foundation???
Ordered to ignore?
There is almost no one with a spine left in any branch of government. And those in the judicial branch who still do, are ignored.
What a disgraceful state of affairs.
Silence IS Complicity.
Cooperation IS Collaboration.
Keep notes. (Madame Defarge style)
We all know why, don’t we? They’re using Signal to avoid statutory records retention by secure governmental platforms. Signal wipes conversations clean allowing for authoritarian secrecy. THAT’S THE LARGER STORY NOT BEING TOLD.
As an IT guy, this shit infuriates me. Either everyone follows the policies or no one will. If you make a policy for a reason, NO ONE IS EXEMPT FROM THE POLICY. Doesn't matter if it's app/software restrictions or restrictions on BYOD. You aren't a special little snowflake regardless of title.
Why? Because Project 2025 is taking away our democracy without most people even noticing. Morons. They can “burn after reading” all they want, but they’re like dogs playing in the mud—leaving their paw prints everywhere they go.
Of course, they have conspired to violate federal law. Jeopardizing national security isn't high on the list of things they care about. This is the most innocent interpretation of the facts. It's also possible that they wanted communications intercepted by our enemies.
"Accidentally" cc'ing Putin. How many other accidents like this could have happened where the unintended invitee did not speak out? These people are stupid and sloppy.
So are government devices, hence why only software restricted and confirmed as safe can be installed. Pegasus has been found on Government devices in the past. All it needs is access via a piece of malicious code/script and initially undetectable. It infects the device root and deploys.
Next time this admin leaks battle plans, the journalist should not sit on them, they should release them to the concerned parties. The Atlantic should have sent them to the Houthis.
The Atlantic Publishes War Plans Discussed In Signal Group Chat
Jeffrey Goldberg had previously withheld sharing some of those messages over concerns that their content was too sensitive.
Give me a break!
They call this a national security failure while completely ignoring the fact that the previous administration allowed millions of unvetted, illegal migrants to flood across our borders from 2021 to 2024, leaving our nation vulnerable! Not to mention their catastrophic withdrawal
#democracyisdying
Despite my stark hashtag, I'm so happy today!!! "Nobody was texting war plans" my a**! Time to read these receipts... https://apple.news/AsfNHVJN3SFCwSLFfHK0DYQ
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How many people are going t9 take the fall for this. The fuckups are endless, and it's only been two months!
It'd just be a whole lotta extra work to try & redo all that...
Buffoons running our government. We're going to lose military people.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/16/is-trump-the-end-of-the-international-rules-based-order
Everyone in this administration that participated in or was complicit in war crimes, crimes against humanity, torture, kidnapping, murder, espionage, sedition, etc....
We wouldn’t know about it
It’s obvious that the WH drove the use of Signal, and Trump will invoke executive privilege to prevent accountability
We know they will try to avoid keeping records. They don’t want to own their decisions
March 2nd.
With SIGNAL
RUSSIAN AND CHINESE
SPIES
don’t have to do the olde fashioned work to get the intel
It’s available in real time
Let the impeachments begin!
MY real side: "WTF". every country in the world will now hack the shit out of the USA and no matter what the USA does, all knows well ahead,. The USA is North Korea, but NK has a smarter leader
I wonder what could go wrong 🥴
Pete Hegseth: founder of Whiskileaks
Aim at the regime.
#ConflictofInterest
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/pete-hegseth-axe-video-tv-34933771
https://bsky.app/profile/beverlymann19.bsky.social/post/3llcjpq763s2o
There will be scapegoats.
ITS OUT THERE.
Just an FYI:
They were warned not to use it. All were on their private phones.
Not a government issued phone.
Have you seen the doc about how easy it is to hack & clone phones?
I suggest reading Ground News & BBC News (free) if you want facts instead of fairy tales.
We should all be terrified
about how much we don't know.
again.
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Lock 'em up, right maga?!
Benghazi was a tragedy.
SignalGate was intentional and criminal.
He then oddly tried to blame it on Biden as well.
That was Trump in the chat on her other device.
this was from other threads on the topic for sure.
#Trump #GOP
Apparently they need lessons on security & charges
I envy you your certainty.
I have many, many doubts.
No doubt the ketamine queen turned them onto it.
There is almost no one with a spine left in any branch of government. And those in the judicial branch who still do, are ignored.
What a disgraceful state of affairs.
Silence IS Complicity.
Cooperation IS Collaboration.
Keep notes. (Madame Defarge style)
Vive la Résistance!
You can't seriously walk away from this with any sort of real transparency.
This is literally worse than Nixon.
And Goldberg has all the receipts.
Because Signal will delete the evidence & make it untraceable.
Jeffrey Goldberg had previously withheld sharing some of those messages over concerns that their content was too sensitive.
They call this a national security failure while completely ignoring the fact that the previous administration allowed millions of unvetted, illegal migrants to flood across our borders from 2021 to 2024, leaving our nation vulnerable! Not to mention their catastrophic withdrawal
The sheer hypocrisy and willful blindness with the DemocRATS are staggering.
Despite my stark hashtag, I'm so happy today!!! "Nobody was texting war plans" my a**! Time to read these receipts...
https://apple.news/AsfNHVJN3SFCwSLFfHK0DYQ