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“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ~The Great Gatsby

Who’s the second MAR?

Here's the things. You can't install Signal on federal devices. Ergo, this entire chat was being carried out on PRIVATE phones. So not only does the APP not have the proper security, the DEVICES don't either.

The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.

Meanwhile, just last month... "... commands that link the victim's phone to a new device—in this case, one in the hands of an eavesdropper who can then read every message the target sends or receives..." www.wired.com/story/russia...

One thing that can get lost in all this is that Jeff Goldberg knows much, much more about national security than the principals who were on that text chain.

Buttigieg: I know this in my experience, both in the cabinet and as an intelligence officer, you would have to go out of your way to take classified information and move it into an unclassified system

The BBC just published a profile on two Russian spies it tracked down. One of them used to get information just by reading texts and PINs over her targets’ shoulders. apple.news/AI8-xPriBQ4C... This is why these guys are dumbasses. They didn’t just cock up by adding the wrong JG to the chat.

Wild swimmers tend to feel more autonomy and competence.

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

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The cowardice of the GOP has been astounding 👇 #TraitorTrump

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

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Trump will be remembered by future generations as the WORST traitor in American history, and his sycophantic political supporters will be compared to those who decades ago supported Hitler.

Has anyone of consequence, on the Democrat side, said anything on the Ukraine situation? If they have, I haven't heard it and that silence is deafening. At the very moment when the world needs the US to have strong political opposition, the DEMs seem to have opted for self-imposed exile.