Just another idiot in the WH.The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg had advance notice of a recent United States military strike against Houthi rebels in Yemen because he was inadvertently sent plans for the strike in a message from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Goldberg writes that this massive security breach began on March 11th when he received a connection request on encrypted messaging app signal from a user named Mike Waltz, which just happens to be the name of President Donald Trump's national security adviser.
After accepting the request, Goldberg was then invited to join a messaging channel called "Houthi PC small group" that appeared to show administration officials coordinating plans to attack the Houthis.
Journalist stunned as defense officials inadvertently send him top-secret war plans
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg had advance notice of a recent United States military strike against Houthi rebels in Yemen because he was inadvertently sent plans for the strike in a message from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.Goldberg writes that this massive security breach began on March...www.rawstory.com
Jesus ******* Christ. This is who is running our government everybody. They've probably already sold the nuclear codes to Putin. Wonder where all of those classified documents Trump stole ended up? I can only imagine how much information Musk has shared with our enemies.
White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist
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The article states that the app was used by the xiden admin
Yes it’s horrible it was hacked
Maybe, but predictable.
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Thankfully for the administration and for U.S. forces, Waltz added Goldberg and not a more nefarious actor. But who’s to say what other actors might have been included in this or other groups? How do we know that no one has access to any of the included users’ Signal accounts or phones? There’s a reason that cellphones aren’t allowed in the White House Situation Room.
The administration acknowledged the mistake, telling Goldberg that the conversation “appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain.” No comments, though, about the risks of using Signal, much less using Signal to share highly classified plans for military action.
I hasten to note that Trump’s complaints about Clinton’s email server were never sincere and were always opportunistic. His post-presidency retention of classified documents already gave the lie to his stated concerns about protecting secret material — far, far less of which was found on Clinton’s server than in Mar-a-Lago’s storage room.
The Atlantic report is something different even than that. It is an indifference to security that is more obvious and more immediate than anything Clinton was ever accused of doing, with a demonstrable failure to preserve the security of the operation (despite Hegseth’s insistences within the chat itself). What’s more, there’s every reason to think that no one in the administration will face any consequences for the inclusion of Goldberg or for the sharing of war plans over Signal or for the possibility that Waltz established the chat — which included an auto-delete mechanism — specifically to avoid preserving public records. By now, what we should expect from the Trump administration is for nothing to happen to anyone involved.
The administration acknowledged the mistake, telling Goldberg that the conversation “appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain.” No comments, though, about the risks of using Signal, much less using Signal to share highly classified plans for military action.
I hasten to note that Trump’s complaints about Clinton’s email server were never sincere and were always opportunistic. His post-presidency retention of classified documents already gave the lie to his stated concerns about protecting secret material — far, far less of which was found on Clinton’s server than in Mar-a-Lago’s storage room.
The Atlantic report is something different even than that. It is an indifference to security that is more obvious and more immediate than anything Clinton was ever accused of doing, with a demonstrable failure to preserve the security of the operation (despite Hegseth’s insistences within the chat itself). What’s more, there’s every reason to think that no one in the administration will face any consequences for the inclusion of Goldberg or for the sharing of war plans over Signal or for the possibility that Waltz established the chat — which included an auto-delete mechanism — specifically to avoid preserving public records. By now, what we should expect from the Trump administration is for nothing to happen to anyone involved.
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Someone was hired to drive under the influence of alcohol I presume. Very weird, but that's the kind of thing Elon should put an end to.The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg had advance notice of a recent United States military strike against Houthi rebels in Yemen because he was inadvertently sent plans for the strike in a message from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Goldberg writes that this massive security breach began on March 11th when he received a connection request on encrypted messaging app signal from a user named Mike Waltz, which just happens to be the name of President Donald Trump's national security adviser.
After accepting the request, Goldberg was then invited to join a messaging channel called "Houthi PC small group" that appeared to show administration officials coordinating plans to attack the Houthis.
Journalist stunned as defense officials inadvertently send him top-secret war plans
The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg had advance notice of a recent United States military strike against Houthi rebels in Yemen because he was inadvertently sent plans for the strike in a message from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.Goldberg writes that this massive security breach began on March...
Jesus ******* Christ. This is who is running our government everybody. They've probably already sold the nuclear codes to Putin. Wonder where all of those classified documents Trump stole ended up? I can only imagine how much information Musk has shared with our enemies.
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Yeah. They should have taken everyone out in the Rose Garden and put a bullet in their heads.
Only way to be sure.
Signal was an app used by the prior admin to.
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You're so angry.
But Trump's still there in the White House.
Enjoy your 3 3/4 years miserable one.
You of all people have earned it.
Byeeee
JLW
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Give your conspiracy theory bullshit a rest. Hegseth is grossly inept and should resign.
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Here are the "war plans"...
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The most hilarious thing is we've bombed the Houtis into oblivion already.
So um, who cares anyway - even if there were any merit to this?
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IM2
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Wrong.
Sherlock Holmes
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The US senate uses signal and it was approved since 2017 by the sgt at Arms for senators and their staff to use to communicate sensitive material
I certainly don’t object to oversight and finding out how this happened
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You're so angry.
But Trump's still there in the White House.
Enjoy your 3 3/4 years miserable one.
You of all people have earned it.
Byeeee
Trump's people are completely reckless with the nations top top top top top secrets (military actions against a foreign nation)
That's why they say "loose lips sink ships". And this could have been a disaster had the editor of the Atlantic decided to publish it.
Trump should kiss the editors ring for saving his ass.
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