The infighting is getting insane:
John Ullyot, former chief Pentagon spokesman (hired by Hegseth) wrote an Op-Ed in Politico on Easter Sunday:
(Note his grovelling for the orange shit gibbon, while trying to throw his former boss under the bus)
The president deserves better than the current mishegoss at the Pentagon. Given his record of holding prior Cabinet leaders accountable, many in the secretary’s own inner circle will applaud quietly if Trump chooses to do the same in short order at the top of the Defense Department.
I saw someone on reddit mention that the contents of this bag were similar to what you’d have in a “go bag”, so you’re ready to disappear on a moment’s notice, like if you were found to be a criminal, or some such thing.
"…marriage, and that includes communication about airstrikes on foreign adversaries,” said the Pentagon chief, who called the mere idea of withholding classified information from one’s spouse “toxic” and “unhealthy.” “In fact, when I told my therapist we were attacking the Houthis, the first thing he asked me was ‘Did you tell your wife?’ The real scandal would have been not telling her. I mean, if she’d had war plans, I would’ve wanted her to text me.” Hegseth added that the best marital advice he had ever received was to never go to bed without saying you’re going to bomb Yemen.
When Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. I get ya, Pete!
The idea that he should be sharing classified information with his wife is bizarre. I think most people don’t share that much about their work with their spouse. And why does his therapist need to know about the Houthi attack?
Darling: Very well sir. “List of personnel cleared for mission Gainsborough, as dictated by General C. H. Melchett: You and me, Darling, obviously. Field Marshal Haig, Field Marshal Haig’s wife, all Field Marshal Haig’s wife’s friends, their families, their families’ servants, their families’ servants’ tennis partners, and some chap I bumped into the mess the other day called Bernard.”
Melchett: So, it’s maximum security, is that clear?
Look. His therapist really needs every detail, from to consistency of his morning turd to his weird marriage to his favourite evening - sorry
midday - ah, Ok. His favourite breakfast whisky.
How else is he going to advise on how to improve psychopathology? Crazy people are not just born like that, they need to be raised and, at adulthood, get actual training.
Old man Hegseth is following a well worn path (or pathology) - a bit like the Mexican border pathways. Except they lead to hope, and his leads precisely the other direction.
His therapist is probably an automated phone-sex line based in Korea
I know precious little about hacking, and I had never heard of the Signal app until this specific clusterfuck surfaced.
But now that it’s painfully obvious that Hegseth and the others in the clown car are regular users of Signal, it’s also rather obvious that a whole lot of bad actors will be targeting Signal in an effort to glean sensitive information for nefarious purposes.
So my question to the Smart Dopers is: how easy (or difficult) will it be for these Bad Guys to hack into Signal and ‘listen’ to Whiskeyleaks Pete and his Band of Idiots?
It’s very hard to hack into Signal. It has good encryption. The problem with using signal isn’t that Signal is easy to hack, it’s that it is an ordinary app living in an ordinary environment, so it talks to your phone’s address book, not to a secure list of people. And you access it on your consumer-grade (and hackable) phone, not on a secure piece of hardware.
The other problem with using Signal is that is has an option for automatically deleting old posts, which is a violation of US law when applied to govenment documents. That seems to be why they are using it – so as to be able to cover their tracks.
That is the main danger. But it isn’t a slight risk. Even with the best practices, phones can still be hacked. And these people are very far away from best practices.
From The Onion: