I’m sure you’ve all seen the news that National Security Advisor Michael Waltz invited journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal chat where an operation against the Houthis in Yemen was discussed, including details of a missile strike. Here’s a gift link to the Post piece on it if you missed it.

Here’s the first Fox response:

I don’t know about you guys, but using a platform where they can expire messages, isn’t subject to federal records requirements, and, most importantly, might easily be compromised by enemies, doesn’t make me feel proud. Also, they come off like a bunch of dumb frat boys, which is what they are:

When, dios mediante, we finally throw these fuckers out of office, it’s going to be the US Embassy in Moscow all over the government. (The tl;dr on that is that the Russians bugged the shit out of a new embassy building going up in Moscow and it took years to get rid of all the bugs.) Every. single. bit of our security and defense apparatus will have to be treated as if it is compromised.

Here are my questions about what’s next:

  1. Will the press give this the drip, drip, drip treatment of a real scandal?

  2. Will Democrats go to the floor daily and demand investigations?

The answers are probably No and No, but we can all live in hope.

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tam1MI 1 year ago

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John S.1 year ago

BUT HER EMAILS!!!

Here’s a short clip of all the fools who just got busted complaining about Clinton. Priceless.

https://youtu.be/OpzIYtvBJeo

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Tam R1 year ago

It’s only been 2 months. We are already dealing with the dregs of the nominee pool.

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

Yesterday, even before this story came out, hubby and I mourned the loss of all that we thought we knew our nation to be. Blinders off, numb shock gone, both of us with tears flowing...

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

So, Signal is the new "burner phone" for this admin. (just read TPM). I'm expecting a false flag event any day now.

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

An interesting tidbit found during my travels

"The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care.

While discussing military spending with the Defense Department (DoD) attorney for the ongoing Talbott v Trump case, Judge Ana Reyes said the DoD spends approximately $5.2 million annually on medical care for service members with gender dysphoria.

Comparatively, the DoD spends $42 million a year on medication for service members with erectile dysfunction."

All that blood rushing away from all those brains. Precious bodily fluids....

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

Heather Cox Richardson today on this subject:

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-24-2025

I was waiting to hear from her on this because I trust her to suss out the details without putting too much spin on the story; she generally gives a good snapshot of the big picture.

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Nukular Biskits1 year ago

I'm quite certain HIllary's emails had something to do with this ...

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r po1 year ago

Disclaimer: I am not an encrypted messaging system expert.

"[...] a platform [...] and, most importantly, might easily be compromised by enemies, [...]"

Signal's original inventor/implementation team was lead, AIUI, by Moxie Marlinspike, who has so far maintained a god-adjacent status amongst the security cognoscenti on the back of the (so far) success he has had achieving high integrity nation or even narco state level actor message integrity, for everyone, anywhere, for free.

I think it's probably premature to cast shade on signal's fundamental integrity at this point in time.

OTOH These MAGA assholes are the dumbest, drooling imbecile clown show OPSEC practitioners this galaxy has ever barfed out. Signal can't help with this.

OTOH, IDK, maybe superpower states ought to be able to get this done, w/o relying on unafilliated, unreliable, super high integrity individuals for their mission critical com services.

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mister mixAuthor1 year ago

No shade on Signal. Russia and China have immense resources (by comparison to a software developer) to compromise a platform.

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r po1 year ago

Kind of adjacent to your original comment is the possibility that this chat was not taking place on government issued secure phones. I kind of didn't have the level of corrupt|stupid imagination required to get my head around the idea, but they might actually be doing Bring Your Own Device at the highest levels of government now. Now THAT would be remarkable. If true, Putin is likely now or soon to be just a regular participant in the highest level of government communications.

Much easier, I think, to subvert the platform than signal. If so, total OPSEC fail.

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

Tulsi Gabbard is in the middle of this. Apparently she made a statement about how serious a crime it is to be mishandling classified information a few days before this very Signal chat in which she was a participant. Bwahahahaha!

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TBone Dinosaur1 year ago

Aaron Rupar on BlueSky:

"asked about texting war plans to a Signal group, Pete Hegseth deflects by attacking Jeffrey Goldberg as a "discredited so-called journalist." (MAGA's only plays are whataboutism and attacking the messenger. Every. Time.)"

Comment of the Evening:

"If he's so discredited why is he in your top secret message group?"

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Sepideh M1 year ago

You know. This is probably not nearly as serious as a private email server that holds a risotto recipe.

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Scott H1 year ago

Will the press give this the drip, drip, drip treatment of a real scandal?

No.

Thus endeth today's episode of One Word Answers to Obvious Questions.

IOKIYAR