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

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. -> https://www.wsj.com/politics/nation...aa?st=YQNAKo&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink

 

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Signal Clone Used by Mike Waltz Pauses Service After Reports It Got Hacked

The communications app TeleMessage, which was spotted on former US national security adviser Mike Waltz's phone, has suspended “all services” as it investigates reports of at least one breach.

www.wired.com

The messaging app used by at least one top Trump administration official has suspended its services following reports of hackers stealing data from the app. Smarsh, TeleMessage’s parent company, says it is now investigating the incident.

“TeleMessage is investigating a potential security incident. Upon detection, we acted quickly to contain it and engaged an external cybersecurity firm to support our investigation,” a Smarsh spokesperson told WIRED in a statement. “Out of an abundance of caution, all TeleMessage services have been temporarily suspended. All other Smarsh products and services remain fully operational.”

 

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Customs and Border Protection Confirms Its Use of Hacked Signal Clone TeleMessage

After a hacker reportedly stole data from TeleMessage Signal that included references to CBP, the agency has now confirmed that it used the app but has now “disabled” it as a “precautionary measure.”

www.wired.com

The United States Customs and Border Protection agency confirmed on Wednesday that it uses at least one communication app made by the service TeleMessage, which creates clones of popular apps like Signal and WhatsApp with the addition of an archiving mechanism for compliance with records-retention rules.

“Following the detection of a cyber incident, CBP immediately disabled TeleMessage as a precautionary measure,” CBP spokesperson Rhonda Lawson tells WIRED. “The investigation into the scope of the breach is ongoing.”

 

[heelinhell]

If I'm Pete, my response to this article would be, " If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying."

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions of his senior thesis, experts say. But how serious is it?

A review of the senior thesis of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ’03 by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three plagiarism experts, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphrasing, and verbatim copying. According to the experts, each passage violated Princeton’s...

www.dailyprincetonian.com

 

[StrangePackage]

If I'm Pete, my response to this article would be, " If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying."

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ’03 ‘plagiarized’ small portions of his senior thesis, experts say. But how serious is it?

A review of the senior thesis of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ’03 by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three plagiarism experts, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphrasing, and verbatim copying. According to the experts, each passage violated Princeton’s...

www.dailyprincetonian.com

This is of zero concern. Absolutely zero.

There's so much wrong with this asshole, this moves the needle not at all.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

This is of zero concern. Absolutely zero.

There's so much wrong with this asshole, this moves the needle not at all.

Yeah, we're way, way beyond plagiarism mattering in an assessment of these right-wing Neanderthals at this point. Having said that, though, is there any doubt that if a Democratic pol was caught doing this that it would be a major scandal and right-wing and legacy media would run it as their top story for days on end, and it would likely destroy that Democrat's political career? The media and political double standard we now have for Republicans and Democrats is beyond ridiculous.

 

[StrangePackage]

Yeah, we're way, way beyond plagiarism mattering in an assessment of these right-wing Neanderthals at this point. Having said that, though, is there any doubt that if a Democratic pol was caught doing this that it would be a major scandal and right-wing and legacy media would run it as their top story for days on end, and it would likely destroy that Democrat's political career? The media and political double standard we now have for Republicans and Democrats is beyond ridiculous.

It is absolutely ridiculous but it's also an unfortunate reality, until the legacy media stops treating Republican intransigence and hypocrisy as an immutable characteristic of the political landscape... And they may never do that.

 

[NOVAHEEL13]

It is absolutely ridiculous but it's also an unfortunate reality, until the legacy media stops treating Republican intransigence and hypocrisy as an immutable characteristic of the political landscape... And they may never do that.

Unfortunately, it's a feature, not a bug.

 

[superrific]

This is of zero concern. Absolutely zero.

There's so much wrong with this asshole, this moves the needle not at all.

Not with respect to that asshole.

But remember: one Trump demand of Harvard was to scrutinize all their scholarly work for plagiarism. Obviously that was bad faith bullshit from the start, but this confirms it.

 

[05C40]

Yeah, we're way, way beyond plagiarism mattering in an assessment of these right-wing Neanderthals at this point. Having said that, though, is there any doubt that if a Democratic pol was caught doing this that it would be a major scandal and right-wing and legacy media would run it as their top story for days on end, and it would likely destroy that Democrat's political career? The media and political double standard we now have for Republicans and Democrats is beyond ridiculous.

I agree with you completely. And it is beyond the power of my imagination to conceive how outraged the right-wing would be if a Secretary of Defense appointed by a Democrat had insisted on a make-up room being installed in the Pentagon. Vanity Fair? Really?
Link: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/st...xJBFYe18kTErPrTfjPlVhEmKUlUM_OFsrATjy2aCxGedi

 

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White House stunned as Hegseth inquiry brings up illegal wiretap claims

Exclusive: Trump advisers lose confidence in Pentagon leak investigation Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides

www.theguardian.com

The White House has lost confidence in a Pentagon leak investigation that Pete Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides last month, after advisers were told that the aides had supposedly been outed by an illegal warrantless National Security Agency (NSA) wiretap.

The extraordinary explanation alarmed the advisers, who also raised it with people close to JD Vance, because such a wiretap would almost certainly be unconstitutional and an even bigger scandal than a number of leaks.


But the advisers found the claim to be untrue and complained that they were being fed dubious information by Hegseth’s personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore, who had been tasked with overseeing the investigation.

The episode, as recounted by four people familiar with the matter, marked the most extraordinary twist in the investigation examining the leak of an allegedly top secret document that outlined options for the US military to reclaim the Panama canal to a reporter.

The advisers were stunned again when Parlatore denied having told anyone about an illegal NSA wiretap himself and maintained that any information he had was passed on to him by others at the Pentagon.

The leak was first attributed internally to Hegseth’s senior adviser, Dan Caldwell, who was escorted out of the Pentagon and fired last month alongside two other aides, Hegseth’s former deputy chief of staff, Darin Selnick, and the deputy defense secretary’s chief of staff Colin Carroll.

But the illegal wiretap claim and Caldwell’s denials fueled a breakdown in trust between the Pentagon and the White House, where the Trump advisers tracking the investigation have privately suggested they no longer have any idea about who or what to believe.

 

[nycfan]

White House stunned as Hegseth inquiry brings up illegal wiretap claims

Exclusive: Trump advisers lose confidence in Pentagon leak investigation Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides

www.theguardian.com

The White House has lost confidence in a Pentagon leak investigation that Pete Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides last month, after advisers were told that the aides had supposedly been outed by an illegal warrantless National Security Agency (NSA) wiretap.

The extraordinary explanation alarmed the advisers, who also raised it with people close to JD Vance, because such a wiretap would almost certainly be unconstitutional and an even bigger scandal than a number of leaks.


But the advisers found the claim to be untrue and complained that they were being fed dubious information by Hegseth’s personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore, who had been tasked with overseeing the investigation.

The episode, as recounted by four people familiar with the matter, marked the most extraordinary twist in the investigation examining the leak of an allegedly top secret document that outlined options for the US military to reclaim the Panama canal to a reporter.

The advisers were stunned again when Parlatore denied having told anyone about an illegal NSA wiretap himself and maintained that any information he had was passed on to him by others at the Pentagon.

The leak was first attributed internally to Hegseth’s senior adviser, Dan Caldwell, who was escorted out of the Pentagon and fired last month alongside two other aides, Hegseth’s former deputy chief of staff, Darin Selnick, and the deputy defense secretary’s chief of staff Colin Carroll.

But the illegal wiretap claim and Caldwell’s denials fueled a breakdown in trust between the Pentagon and the White House, where the Trump advisers tracking the investigation have privately suggested they no longer have any idea about who or what to believe.

Seems big, if true

 

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