👀 Waltz, SecDef SignalGate | Hegseth copies wife, lawyer on second Signal thread

[Duke Mu]

Oopsie.

 

[Duke Mu]

It's not a dead horse... All the people involved still have all their jobs and security clearances.

This horse is very much alive.

It's a massive horse. Bigger than Big Red (Secretariat). And very much alive.

 

[UNCBAdookJD]

It's not a dead horse... All the people involved still have all their jobs and security clearances.

This horse is very much alive.

The problem is none of that is going to change. Trump sure as hell won’t fire anyone or allow anyone to strip clearances and Congress is too cowardly to impeach any of them.

 

[CFordUNC]

What a colossal fucking disaster this is becoming.

 

[uncgriff]

You just know that it every administration signal thread the last 2 months was found and published it would be the absolute crisis scandal of all time.

 

[BlooVooDoo]

Well, that’s a bad look.

 

[Bobfripp]

Trump Calls Signal Leak Fallout a ‘Witch Hunt’

Speaking to reporters from the Oval Office, the president focused on the successful U.S. airstrikes in Yemen more than the discussion of military plans in a commercial messaging app where a journalist was invited by mistake.

www.nytimes.com

Trump Calls Signal Leak Episode a ‘Witch Hunt’​

 

[dukeman92]

JFC

 

[nycfan]

“… Those affected by the leaks include National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use, with some of them linked to profiles on social media platforms like Instagram and LinkedIn. They were used to create Dropbox accounts and profiles in apps that track running data. There are also WhatsApp profiles for the respective phone numbers and even Signal accounts in some cases.

… Hostile intelligence services could use this publicly available data to hack the communications of those affected by installing spyware on their devices. It is thus conceivable that foreign agents were privy to the Signal chat group in which Gabbard, Waltz and Hegseth discussed a military strike. …”

 

[nycfan]

“… Those affected by the leaks include National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use, with some of them linked to profiles on social media platforms like Instagram and LinkedIn. They were used to create Dropbox accounts and profiles in apps that track running data. There are also WhatsApp profiles for the respective phone numbers and even Signal accounts in some cases.

… Hostile intelligence services could use this publicly available data to hack the communications of those affected by installing spyware on their devices. It is thus conceivable that foreign agents were privy to the Signal chat group in which Gabbard, Waltz and Hegseth discussed a military strike. …”

“… Tulsi Gabbard has declined to comment. DER SPIEGEL reporting has demonstrated, though, that privately used and publicly accessible telephone numbers belonging to her and Waltz are, in fact, linked to Signal accounts. …”

 

[1moretimeagain]

I can hear it now, Der Spiegel utilized Mike Waltz signal password to add Jeffrey Goldberg to the group chat.

 

[nycfan]

He has no idea what Signal is but thinks it could be defective and part of a Witch Hunt.

 

[nycfan]

[Hegseth did this too, as was discovered during his confirmation hearings]

 

[Calheel]

“… “I just talked to Elon on the way here. We have the best technical minds looking at how this happened,” the group’s creator, Mike Waltz, told Fox News on Tuesday.

… In 2023, a Pentagon memo warned against using Signal and other mobile for any nonpublic, official information, NPR reported.

On March 18, an agency-wide email repeated that Signal shouldn’t be used even for non-classified communications because Russian hackers were using the “linked devices” feature to spy on encrypted conversations. …”

Elon Musk’s crackerjack team of engineers is probing the mystery of how Trump’s national security adviser accidentally added a journalist to an unsecured group chat discussing potentially classified military intelligence.

After the crackerjack team solves this huge mystery, hopefully they will get to work on finding the real killer of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson.

 

[nycfan]

 

[genevabuck]

[Hegseth did this too, as was discovered during his confirmation hearings]

This guy shouldn’t be advising anyone on security.

 

[dukeman92]

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[wmheel1287]

Unfortunately, I think this is correct. Trump's cabinet members have tied themselves in knots trying to admit absolutely no wrongdoing because they think the Boss wants them to do so. Waltz is the only one who said he screwed up and the buck stops with him. Simply admit you were wrong and move on. Trump has actually been pretty reasonable in HIS comments, stating everyone needs to learn from their mistakes.

What else is there to say about this? We know Pete shouldn't have been discussing the timing of the attacks on Signal and Goldberg shouldn't have been added to the chat by Waltz (or staff). At this point the dead horse is simply being hit.

None of the conversation should have happened on Signal. Full stop. It is patently against the law to have those discussions on a medium where the records cannot be maintained.