White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist

[Godboy]

Unlike Trump, he didn't brag about them and showed them off to party friends.

No, Biden just sold them to a publisher instead.

 

[SweetSue92]

The WH is trying to figure out who gets the axe. Rumor has it Mr. Waltz is the guy.
Will Hegseth get a reprieve?

"A senior Trump administration official told the outlet that there are threads between staffers on how to handle Waltz. Dasha Burns, White House bureau chief at Politico, told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on "The Source" they're looking for "who's going to pay" — with some saying he ought to resign to "spare Trump."

Shades of Trump 1.0

'Furious discussion': Irate White House mulls ouster of Trump's national security adviser

A top national security adviser to Donald Trump may get pushed out of the White House following a bombshell report that he inadvertently added a journalist to a group chat on Signal, where he and other top officials discussed top-secret war plans.On March 15, just hours before the U.S. launched...

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You stepping on all the rakes.

ALL of them.

This is politico-head, inside-baseball league garbage. Sure, it seems it was an error. But go explain this to a regular American, not people who hang out on political forums.

"Yeah so, they were having this confidential chat and someone added a journalist accidentally."

"Oh no, what happened?"

"Well.....nothing."

Right.

Meanwhile real Americans are watching egg prices halved, gas prices dropping, and you all burning up Teslas all over the nation.

PLEASE, I beg you please, harp on this story for the next year. Preferably right through the mid-terms.

 

[Marener]

Bullshit.
There was no "war plan", it was a bombing attack against Yemen's Houthi terrorists.
Congress did not declare war on Yemen.

Was it classified information?

 

[kyzr]

He didn't hack anything. He was mistakenly included in the chat group.......much to his surprise. You're commenting on a story you apparently know nothing about.

No one knows how Goldberg got in on that chat.
Signal was obviously the wrong app, lesson learned.

 

[kyzr]

There is such a thing as the presidential records act. MANDATING that the administration KEEPS records of precisely this kind of deliberation. Something that signal is SPECIFICALLY designed to prevent. Not did I see any such dismissal over the mere POSSIBLITY that secrets MIGHT be exposed with Clinton.

Here we have an administration doing government business involving an attack on a foreign entity over a civilian encryption service breaking THE LAW while doing so, and your response is "no harm no foul", a "foul" only prevented by a journalist acting responsible. Just.... Wow.

Signal was used before the Trump guys started work.
It is obviously the wrong app.
No harm, no foul, Lesson learned.

 

[kyzr]

Was it classified information?

Yes, Signal is obviously the wrong app, lesson learned. No harm, no foul.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

No one knows how Goldberg got in on that chat.
Signal was obviously the wrong app, lesson learned.

5 takeaways from Trump officials war planning group chat ...​

The Hill
https://thehill.com › 5211761-us-government-group-chat
12 hours ago — Goldberg wrote that the chain of events began on March 11 when he got an unsolicited Signal invite from someone named Michael Waltz.

Goldberg wrote that the chain of events began on March 11 when he got an unsolicited Signal invite from someone named Michael Waltz. Trump’s national security adviser is Mike Waltz, a former Florida congressman.

 

[kyzr]

5 takeaways from Trump officials war planning group chat ...​

12 hours ago — Goldberg wrote that the chain of events began on March 11 when he got an unsolicited Signal invite from someone named Michael Waltz.
Goldberg wrote that the chain of events began on March 11 when he got an unsolicited Signal invite from someone named Michael Waltz. Trump’s national security adviser is Mike Waltz, a former Florida congressman.

I haven't heard Walz's side of the story yet. Its a fuckup, but I still want to know how Goldberg was added, since he is such a severe critic of all things Trump.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

'Nobody is above the law': Trump officials who criticized ...​

Yahoo
https://www.yahoo.com › news › nobody-above-law-tr...
2 hours ago — Much of that criticism has revolved around Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server when she was Secretary of State under President Obama .

Rubio, identified by Goldberg in the chat as “MAR,” repeatedly attacked Clinton over the issue in 2015 and 2016 – tweeting about it at least a dozen times.

“Nobody is above the law. Not even Hillary Clinton – even though she thinks she is,” he said on Fox News in January 2016.

In an August 2015 Fox News interview, Rubio noted that classified information should only be viewed in a secure room to protect it from unauthorized access or surveillance.

“You most certainly know you shouldn’t be talking about it or passing it on in an email, particularly to a private server like the one she had. What they did is reckless – it’s complete recklessness and incompetence.”

 

[SweetSue92]

5 takeaways from Trump officials war planning group chat ...​

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The Hill
https://thehill.com › 5211761-us-government-group-chat
12 hours ago — Goldberg wrote that the chain of events began on March 11 when he got an unsolicited Signal invite from someone named Michael Waltz.

Goldberg wrote that the chain of events began on March 11 when he got an unsolicited Signal invite from someone named Michael Waltz. Trump’s national security adviser is Mike Waltz, a former Florida congressman.

Hahahah, please keep harping on this, PLEASE.

Surely this one will blow up into a huge scandal and save your party after all the others failed

 

[forkup]

Signal was used before the Trump guys started work.
It is obviously the wrong app.
No harm, no foul, Lesson learned.

Oh really? Would you be so kind as to point to any executive branch using signal, an app that deletes messages BY DESIGN in violation of the PRA?

And even if you could, something I highly doubt that would just mean that other (potential) administration was in violation of the law too.

As I said. Before Trump neither I, nor I suspect you, could even conceive of something like this, in any other setting than a SCIFF.

And before the GOP decided to become professional turd polishers I couldn't conceive of them being dismissive of a security breach of this massive proportion without having about 500000 congressional hearings.

 

[kyzr]

Would you be so kind as to point to any executive branch using signal, an app that deletes messages BY DESIGN in violation of the PRA?
And even if you could, something I highly doubt that would just mean that other (potential) administration was in violation of the law too.
As I said. Before Trump neither I, nor I suspect you, could even conceive of something like this, in any other setting than a SCIFF.
And before the GOP decided to become professional turd polishers I couldn't conceive of them being dismissive of a security breach of this massive proportion without having about 500000 congressional hearings.

1. Trump admin did not add Signal, it was in use by the Biden admin.
2. There is another secure app that should have been used.
3. Where was your outrage when 13 Americans were killed in AFG because the Biden admin didn't allow a sniper to kill the suicide bomber?
4. No harm, no foul, lesson learned.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

I haven't heard Walz's side of the story yet. Its a fuckup, but I still want to know how Goldberg was added, since he is such a severe critic of all things Trump.

The Trump regime appears to admit, it was Walz.

It’s difficult to imagine any high-ranking national security official in a more conventional administration still having a job if they did what Waltz did.


But the Trump White House is like no other, and the president swiftly released a statement of support.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that Trump “continues to have the utmost confidence in his national security team, including National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.”

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

He could have revealed operational details before it happened. What if Iranian hackers had intercepted the messages or the journalist was a ‘loose lips’ type of guy? We got lucky this time, but it’s the kind of dangerous incompetence that’s going to happen, when you have a DUI hire at DoD!

Obviously they weren't discussing operational details. An example of dangerous incompetence is when the SEAL landing in Somalia was leaked and the media was on the beach waiting for them. Remember that?

https://www.osi.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/3252629/looking-back-operation-restore-hope-osi-operations-in-somalia/

 

[Luckyone]

Progressive Socialist Communists always look for anything to pounce on. If there is any truth this will be fixed. Of course, maybe it was done on purpose if it even occurred. We have foreign moles working in this country and most likely some elected. A lot of our technology exists in overseas nations for some reason.

How can you find an excuse for this kind of incompetence?????????

This is releasing extremely sensitive security information to our enemies!!!!!!

This is pure stupidity, and you attempt to excuse it?

 

[Luckyone]

how did the reporter get those messages ? were they sent to said reporter or did the reporter hack into the the system ?

Read the information. It was MISTAKENLY sent to the reporter, as well as to other people that had no reason to get such information

 

[konradv]

Obviously they weren't discussing operational details. An example of dangerous incompetence is when the SEAL landing in Somalia was leaked and the media was on the beach waiting for them. Remember that?

https://www.osi.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/3252629/looking-back-operation-restore-hope-osi-operations-in-somalia/

They obviously were talking operational details and I’m sure a journalist would save the messages, as the law says the principles should have also done. Some heads need to roll.

 

[kyzr]

The Trump regime appears to admit, it was Walz.
It’s difficult to imagine any high-ranking national security official in a more conventional administration still having a job if they did what Waltz did. But the Trump White House is like no other, and the president swiftly released a statement of support.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that Trump “continues to have the utmost confidence in his national security team, including National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.”

True, but I still didn't hear from Walz how it happened.
This was a good kick in the ass for Trump's national security team.
I bet this won't happen again.

 

[konradv]

True, but I still didn't hear from Walz how it happened.
This was a good kick in the ass for Trump's national security team.
I bet this won't happen again.

What makes you think it was the first time? Putin probably had a plant on the list, too!

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Hahahah, please keep harping on this, PLEASE.

Surely this one will blow up into a huge scandal and save your party after all the others failed

Like your party did with Clinton's E-Mails?