Foreign Policy

[drayer54]

At least Guantanamo

They should be dropped off one of these resignation machines.

 

[NorthDakota]

WHO BETTER TO LEAD THE PROBE?!?!

Oh that's retarded to say the least

 

[GATTACA!]

Oh that's retarded to say the least

We have thoroughly investigated ourselves and have found that we are, in fact, innocent.

Thank you for your time.

 

[NDVirginia19]

For the reference of those that don’t know what sort of things are CUI: it is entirely benign things like internal schedules and policy decisions. If CUI was truly the most classified level of information shared (I would still guess that it’s S/NF at highest), then this would be such a non story it would be laughable

 

[BuaConstrictor]

The fall man

"Full responsibility"..did anyone here actually see that interview?

At one point Waltz says Goldberg may have deliberately changed the contact information in Waltz's phone in order to trick him to gain access...in another part he spins some conspiracy about how/why Goldberg ended up on the texts.

 

[BuaConstrictor]

Full story:

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[NDVirginia19]

Looks Secret at most. It's definitely a bad way to handle Secret information at most. Seems like risk to mission, not risk to force type information. I don't think it's anything worth prosecution given the lack of intent to harm the United States.

 

[BuaConstrictor]

Looks Secret at most. It's definitely a bad way to handle Secret information at most. Seems like risk to mission, not risk to force type information. I don't think it's anything worth prosecution given the lack of intent to harm the United States.

 

[BuaConstrictor]

Thread of on-going updates:

Trump Calls Signal Leak Fallout a ‘Witch Hunt’

Speaking to reporters from the Oval Office, the president focused on the successful U.S. airstrikes in Yemen more than the discussion of military plans in a commercial messaging app where a journalist was invited by mistake.

www.nytimes.com

-"After an initial round of strikes on March 15, the defense secretary wrote in the chat that “CENTCOM was/is on point,” referring to the military’s Central Command, which was in charge of the operation. He then told the group that the strikes would be continuing. “Great job all. More strikes ongoing for hours tonight, and will provide full initial report tomorrow. But on time, on target, and good readouts so far.”


-"Newly disclosed messages from the chat suggest that Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, may have mischaracterized a critical part of the exchange in her appearance before the Senate yesterday. Senator Martin Heinrich, Democrat of New Mexico, asked Gabbard: ”Precise operational issues were not part of this conversation?” She responded: “Correct.” Given the launch times that the defense secretary shared in the chat, House Democrats will undoubtedly press her on this today."

 

[BuaConstrictor]

 

[CTIDANDREW]

What a joke this will even be a debate.
Trump this second go around has certainly installed the Roy Cohn strategy with all his cabinet members and senior advisors to never admit a mistake, or shown any sign of contrition.
Going to be a long four years.

 

[BuaConstrictor]

"At 1:48 p.m., Waltz sent the following text, containing real-time intelligence about conditions at an attack site, apparently in Sanaa: “VP. Building collapsed. Had multiple positive ID. Pete, Kurilla, the IC, amazing job.” Waltz was referring here to Hegseth; General Michael E. Kurilla, the commander of Central Command; and the intelligence community, or IC. The reference to “multiple positive ID” suggests that U.S. intelligence had ascertained the identities of the Houthi target, or targets, using either human or technical assets."

At 2 p.m., Waltz responded: “Typing too fast. The first target – their top missile guy – we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed.”

 

[BuaConstrictor]

"Mick Mulroy, who was a Pentagon official in the first Trump administration, said the launch times posted in the chat by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth would have been taken from a document outlining the real-time battle sequence of the operation against the Houthis. “It is highly classified and protected,” Mulroy said. “Disclosure would compromise the operation and put lives at risk. Next to nuclear and covert operations, this information is the most protected.”"

 

[BuaConstrictor]

What a joke this will even be a debate.
Trump this second go around has certainly installed the Roy Cohn strategy with all his cabinet members and senior advisors to never admit a mistake, or shown any sign of contrition.
Going to be a long four years.

Yep..and you already have dipshits in this thread(as well as the DoD Twitter account) doing exactly as I predicted:

What I would bet comes of this is that the MAGA Admin will try to lean on some technicality that the full boat of evidence doesn't rise to the level of "Classified" because of some obscure by-law buried in some procedure. It will be some hyper technical or semantic argument around classification of intelligence....meanwhile down on planet Earth everyone with half a brain will continue to see how idiotic and incompetent this administration is.

Despite former Defense and Intelligence officials saying this information is/would be classified.

 

[BuaConstrictor]

"Senator Andy Kim, Democrat of New Jersey, called the details of the Signal chat “shocking” in a social media post, saying that it contained “clearly incredibly sensitive and classified” information. “As someone who worked in the Situation Room before, I cannot believe Hegseth would recklessly text info that could put a target on our pilots and service members,” wrote Kim, who served in a number of government roles, including on the National Security Council, before running for office. “He needs to resign,” he added."

 

[BuaConstrictor]

A lawsuit filed on Tuesday seeking a judge’s order to preserve all of the Signal messages on the group chat was assigned to Judge James E. Boasberg, who is already ensnared in a standoff with the Trump administration over the specifics of its deportation of Venezuelan migrants to a prison in El Salvador. The lawsuit, brought by the watchdog group American Oversight, said the app could be configured to automatically delete messages in violation of public disclosure laws.

...and here come the lawsuits!

 

[ColoradoIrish]

A lawsuit filed on Tuesday seeking a judge’s order to preserve all of the Signal messages on the group chat was assigned to Judge James E. Boasberg, who is already ensnared in a standoff with the Trump administration over the specifics of its deportation of Venezuelan migrants to a prison in El Salvador. The lawsuit, brought by the watchdog group American Oversight, said the app could be configured to automatically delete messages in violation of public disclosure laws.

...and here come the lawsuits!

At least maga won't have to start another coordinated impeachment campaign against another liberal judge 😂

 

[BuaConstrictor]

..but hey..at least the phone wasn't in the Kremlin with him (if we are to believe him)

 

[BuaConstrictor]

Oh that's retarded to say the least

Well..it's the Trump admin..so....par for the course.

 

[dublinirish]

 

[BuaConstrictor]

 

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[NDVirginia19]

"The highest classification" absolutely not lmao. What a clown. The Admin should have just said "yeah we made a mistake and will make sure not to do it again" and this would have been a one day story. The doubling down that they did nothing wrong is a huge mistake

 

[BuaConstrictor]

 

[BuaConstrictor]

What a clown.

 

[BuaConstrictor]

 

[BuaConstrictor]

Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social)

Confirming, as was obvious from context already, that this wasn’t a one-off. They are routinely using Signal to evade statutory record retention requirements.

bsky.app

@GATTACA!

They were doing this A LOT.

 

[BuaConstrictor]

 

[NDVirginia19]

Jeff has no fucking way of knowing whether the CIA representative that the Director put into the chat was "under Cover". He has no clue what he's talking about

The person that Jeff isinuated was a super secret under cover CIA operative was the Ratcliffe's Chief of Staff lmao

 

[BuaConstrictor]

Representative Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, asked Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, about her testimony on Tuesday that precise details about the attack were not included in the chat, given the new release of messages that contradict that. “My answer yesterday was based on my recollection, or the lack thereof, on the details that were posted there,” she said.

NBD...just the DNI being clueless.