I have read that the Atlantic did not release the full text until the Administration said that no secret items were discussed.
Pardon if this had previously been posted.
Yes, after they said so under oath, in fact. And even then, he redacted the name of the operative that was in the thread.
Thank goodness. I wonder if the guy is still alive.
Ever since I read that the leak happened because someone added the wrong “JG” contact to the chat, I’ve been wondering what hilarity might ensue next time, when someone accidentally adds the wrong VP.
Reporter: Is the DOJ investigating the leak?
Bondi: HILLARY’S EMAILS!
Wasn’t there some infinitely worse criminality going on at Mar-A-Lago vis-a-vis classified documents and endless Obstruction of Justice … maybe in between that Hillary stuff and the Signal chat imbroglio??
I could have sworn…
As always, what irks and saddens me the most is that somebody like Bondi has the unmitigated confidence that this kind of bullshit will land with its intended audience, and that the intended audience will never consider what I just mentioned.
Except to recall fondly words like “WITCH HUNT!” and “LAWFARE!”
And, of course, “BIDEN’S GARAGE!”
I weep for America and I curse the least knowledgeable, most credulous among us, for they are truly the Architects of America’s destruction.
Ha! (Took me a minute).
No one needs to “add” Putin. They’re always doing exactly what he wants, all the time.
Yes, we’re at war with a Venezuelan gang (for purposes of doing no-due-process deportations) and NOT at war with the Houthis we’re bombing (for purposes of saving Pete Hegseth’s ass).
“Keeping us out of wars” was just a line to get the rubes to vote for Donald. It was nothing to do with Donald’s actual plans.
And how. Easily hackable—especially since their details are PUBLICLY AVAILABLE:
Just covered in glory all over.
But which way round would be worse? (Or funnier?)
This Der Speigel article has been posted in a number of threads, and I’ve seen it in multiple subreddits. I read it, and nearest I can tell it’s BS. Not that any of it isn’t true, but the implication.
It seems like they found publicly available phone numbers and email addresses. You can then plug those email addresses into a site like haveibeenpwned.com and it will tell you all the data breaches that email has been associated with.
I’m not sure if you still can do this, but using my username and some old whois records, you can figure out my real name, phone number, emails, and old addresses I used to live at. You can then use the site above to discover all the times my passwords were stolen in data breaches.
All it means is that privacy is a joke, and pretty much all of us have been victims of data breaches. It’s not any kind of reflection on anyone in listed in the article. They’re victims, just like I am.
(Obviously I don’t use any of my compromised passwords anymore, I use strong passwords, I use different passwords for each site, I use mfa, etc)
I refuse to believe trump has plans. He has a short fuse and attention span, and NSFW too. And he is easily influenced and has a lot of mental problems. A coherent plan is beyond his capabilities.
Others are taking advantage of than ease to influence him. Not just Putin.
Let’s don’t get bogged down in details: remember that using Signal at all was already illegal. And that the chat we know of admits that it is usual practice.
All the more reason people shouldn’t be using their day-to-day devices and accounts for purposes of national security then, wouldn’t you say?
The reflection on the people in the article isn’t that they were uniquely victimized by data breaches, or that the fact their information is out there makes them uniquely careless. It’s that their personal information is out there, and despite that, they were using personal (i.e., insecure) phones, and commercial (i.e., insecure) chat programs, to conduct conversations on U.S. defense policy and plans, very likely so that they could bypass U.S. laws about documentation of official conversations.
Norman! Coordinate! Coordinate!
But are you using your privately owned personal phone for discussing your upcoming battles? Even GROSS has better OPSEC than these idiots.
By the way, over on GoComics, I’m posting as californiamonty. Yesterday’s Doonesbury rerun was eerily prescient for a 2002 strip. and here’s the comment I made yesterday.
Sorry, I was just trying to fight ignorance, is all.
It’s like déjà vu all over again!
But wait; there’s a twist to the tale!
In another thread, someone asked for names for the current administration. I nominated Felonial Era. I just completed the nomenclature chart. Here you go!
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JESUS
FUCKING
CHRIST!
How many times did we hear about “her emails”. The hypocrisy is off the charts and they are too fucking dense to see it
LOCK HER UP!
As I posted in the other thread:
I don’t believe the transcript, as listed here, is correct. I searched for the video of the whole exchange, and all I could find was the short interaction that was posted in the X post.
In this video, Himes begins speaking at the 34:25 mark. The interaction between Himes and Gabbard begins at about the 36:05 mark. His first question, as listed in the post, begins at the 39:40 mark. After he asks the question, the transcript in the post deviates greatly from the actual video. He asks one more question about Gabbard’s retweet; she answers that it came from her personal account, and shortly thereafter, he yields his time.
IOW, the transcript of the exchange, as posted on X, and quoted by Johnny_L.A. is not factual.
Disclaimer: I did not the entire 2:31:27 of this video.
From key position, Rep. Jim Himes presses officials on Yemen texts
I could (and should) have explicitly said “the problem is that these people insist on using their personal devices despite knowing how insecure they are”* and that would have saved you from having to make that post. My bad.
Perfection.
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Not sure if anyone has brought up the Air National Guardsman who was convicted for posting sensitive information on Discord:
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/nx-s1-5188642/former-airman-jack-teixeira-sentenced-to-15-years-for-leaking-classified-documents
Not an identical situation, of course. But it does seem to be like the Signalgate crew in that the guy was basically, it appears, thinking what he was doing was cool and great.
(He wasn’t selling the information; just sharing it to impress the bros.)
Odds of Donald’s darling Pete going to federal prison? Hahahahahahahahahaha.
*as @Smapti and @kenobi_65 basically posted