Here’s the text of another Facebook post by Jim Wright about this clusterfuck. Chief Wright was in Navy Intelligence for much of his career and he knows this stuff. You may gather he is not happy. This post follows the release by the Atlantic of almost all the Signal thread.
And [it?] is.
Trump said the chat was unclassified (though he seems to think it was some sort of phone call because he has no idea what a group chat actually is, but then he thinks the fact that his 19-year-old son can open a laptop is some sort of evidence of technological genius).
So in self-defense, The Atlantic published it.
I mean, it’s unclassified, right?
Yeah.
Oh boy.
Based on my own experience with numerous similar operations, it’s pretty obvious everyone involved was lying during their congressional testimony yesterday. Big surprise there.
It’s all there. Time. Date. Locations. Weapons. Targets. Units. All of that, made public before or during a mission (and even sometimes after) can lead directly to mission failure and put our assets at risk. Moreover, that bit where Vance is speculating regarding impact on oil prices? You’re talking political and economic impact of a military operation on a global scale. You honestly think any administration would want that sort of speculation out in the open?
If any member of the military had shared this timeline with the public in advance of the strike, or had emailed it to a journalist, or sent it to a foreign agent, do you think Pete Hegseth would call that information classified and demand a court martial for treason?
Tulsi Gabbard sure as hell would.
Trump can’t have it both ways.
If it’s classified for Joe Private, it’s classified for Pete Hegseth.
For the military, this like the fire on USS Forrestal. It’s so bad that it’s HISTORICALLY bad. The kind of monumental ridiculously insane terrible cascading bad that we’ll use as a flaming example to teach generations of Sailors, Soldiers, Marines, Airman, and even Space Guard Whatever They’re Called, how NOT to do things. They’ll make training movies about this. Military who aren’t even born right now will know about this in detail 30 years from now.
That’s how goddamn bad it is.