Summary
Lawmakers from both parties expressed outrage after The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief revealed he was accidentally included in a Trump administration Signal chat discussing Yemen airstrikes.
Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.) and Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) called for investigations and firings, labeling it a serious security breach.
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) criticized the use of non-secure systems, warning that adversaries like Russia and China could exploit it.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) condemned the administration’s mishandling of classified information, saying it endangers national security.
I agree that “heads should roll”…literally.
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Uh oh, they’re expressing outrage now. I’m sure someone will suffer.
No heads will roll. What most stories miss is that the main reason they didn’t use official channels for this (and most likely many of their other conversations as well) is that they don’t want to comply with the Federal Records Act. They don’t want there to be a record of a lot of the shit they’re saying and doing and plan to do.
This was literally in the instructional videos that Heritage made for new Trump staffers under Project2025. To do as little as possible that complies with the Federal Records Act. This is that video.
Yeah, I know why the guy came clean, but it would have been so much more useful if we stayed on the chat. Really a big missed opportunity.
OTOH he did stay on it as long as he could while still being able to protect himself by saying he didn’t think it could be real and most likely a scam or attempt to entrap, plus the thread was basically over by then anyway.
Remember in 2016 when the entire magat crowd screamed that Hillary should be locked up for using a private, secure server that was only accessible to authorized individuals?
Surely they won’t be hypocrites and try to brush this under the rug, or worse try to blame the editor-in-chief who had no desire to get wrapped up in this.
I’m shocked that the administration of “Put the big boxes of top secret docs under the bathroom chandelier” would mishandle secret war plans.
Congress: Somebody should really do something to rein this administration in!
The horrific absurdity is that even Trump was beginning sentences with “Somebody should …” AFTER he became president.
They are too used to the conspiracy-theorist, “humble-truth-finder” mindset EVEN when they are at the top.
Imagine that. You have unqualified amateurs in important government positions, and they don’t know what they’re doing.
But they claim that they know better than the actual experts they displace
Make it happen Senate. It’s literally your job. So fucking do it
I agree with those who think nothing will happen. Screw ups are an everyday thing for these clowns.
It’s like a bunch of stupid kids playing government.
The so-called experts on Trump over at the Atlantic wrote a long and boring article on my cellphone usage that is so incorrect I do not have time here to correct it. I only use Government Phones, and have only one seldom used government cell phone. Story is soooo wrong!
–@RealDonaldTrump
Way too coherent to be real.
And yet it is 95% real.
Way too coherent… this is FAKE NEWS!
They only have themselves to blame. If you’re actively destroying OPSEC you have no reason to fucking cry.
I think the important thing here is to not get distracted and focus on what’s really important:
Hillary’s emails.
Buttery
Buttered Sausage
Buttery males?!
They’ve got nearly four more years left to completely screw something up.
They keep messing with things eventually they’ll cause catastrophe
Heads should roll? Maybe, if you ask nicely, the French may share some equipment and experience.
Really? For fucking real? This is where they draw the line?!
It’s bad, but not even close to the worst this admin has done. However, with proper screeching of NATIONAL SECURITY and shameful reminders about BUT HER EMAILS, this might be the first thing that Dems could sell to the Republican base as grounds to remove people. And let’s be honest, that’s who the Dems are really angling to persuade.
Probably not tho, lol. Nothing will actually change. 🙃
You don’t even really remind them about her emails you can just remind them about the laws they wrote making her emails illegal after the fact in a failed attempt to “lock her up.” We can scream “ILLEGAL MILITARY CHATROOMS” and “ILLEGAL ESPIONAGE”.
Its like Nixon, Watergate was one of the less egregious things he did, but it was a faux pas against the political order. The Republicans are fully on-board with the wholesale dismantling and privatization of the bureaucratic state, but they’re not ok with making the intelligence mechanisms weaker.
