👀 Waltz, SecDef SignalGate | Signalgate 2.0 Oct 2025
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BREAKING: Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought his Fox News producer wife to a NATO meeting on Ukraine and a classified Pentagon briefing with the UK Defense Secretary, per WSJ.<br><br>No clearance. No job. Massive national security breach.<br><br>He needs to resign — now. <a href="https://t.co/AEmbow8fYF">pic.twitter.com/AEmbow8fYF</a></p>— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) <a href="">March 29, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
BREAKING: Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought his Fox News producer wife to a NATO meeting on Ukraine and a classified Pentagon briefing with the UK Defense Secretary, per WSJ.<br><br>No clearance. No job. Massive national security breach.<br><br>He needs to resign — now. <a href="https://t.co/AEmbow8fYF">pic.twitter.com/AEmbow8fYF</a></p>— Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) <a href="">March 29, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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“… Despite repeated messages of support by Trump, Waltz has lost sway with the president and the backing of senior aides within the White House, officials said, just as the administration struggles to broker peace deals and faces the threat of further war in the Middle East.
… Trump’s anger spilled over into many private discussions last week, including multiple calls with allies in which he unloaded expletives and blamed Waltz for the administration’s first big national-security crisis. On Wednesday, Trump spoke to Vice President JD Vance, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and personnel chief Sergio Gor about whether Waltz should be dismissed.
But on Thursday, Trump let Waltz know in a one-on-one meeting that the national security adviser would keep his job. Trump decided to give Waltz a reprieve during that discussion, two administration officials said. He didn’t want the media and Democrats to claim a scalp so early in his second administration, according to people close to Trump, as that would admit wrongdoing. One person said that if news of the Signal chat had first appeared in a conservative media outlet such as Breitbart, Waltz would be gone.
… Even as Trump seriously weighed cutting Waltz loose, aides said he was haunted by his first term firing of Mike Flynn, the retired Army lieutenant general who served as his first national security adviser.
… Waltz’s ideological adversaries are pursuing an internal campaign to remind the president that Waltz wasn’t always aligned with him, by pointing out that Waltz opposed the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan and Syria, supported America’s defense of Ukraine, and worked on national security legislation with then-Rep. Liz Cheney, a House Republican from Wyoming who opposed Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Some administration officials also began circulating clips on Friday of Waltz making particularly critical comments of Trump in the past. …”
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—> https://wapo.st/42dVyTkWaltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say
Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.“… A senior Waltz aide used the commercial email service for highly technical conversations with colleagues at other government agencies involving sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict, according to emails reviewed by The Post. While the NSC official used his Gmail account, his interagency colleagues used government-issued accounts, headers from the email correspondence show.
Waltz has had less sensitive, but potentially exploitable information sent to his Gmail, such as his schedule and other work documents, said officials, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe what they viewed as problematic handling of information. The officials said Waltz would sometimes copy and paste from his schedule into Signal to coordinate meetings and discussions. …”
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They're not giving him enough credit. Was he actually sending emails with gmail? Or was he writing a draft, saving it, and then someone comes in later to read it? That's super-secure. Foolproof, actually.
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Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say
Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.
“… A senior Waltz aide used the commercial email service for highly technical conversations with colleagues at other government agencies involving sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict, according to emails reviewed by The Post. While the NSC official used his Gmail account, his interagency colleagues used government-issued accounts, headers from the email correspondence show.
Waltz has had less sensitive, but potentially exploitable information sent to his Gmail, such as his schedule and other work documents, said officials, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe what they viewed as problematic handling of information. The officials said Waltz would sometimes copy and paste from his schedule into Signal to coordinate meetings and discussions. …”
Didn’t General David Petraeus and his girlfriend try to do the G-mail/Yahoo mail/whatever mail “trick” and they were caught.
The “trick” was to never send an e-mail. Log into the same account and read the drafts.
Yeah…..no one will eff up and leave the account open. Never.
You have to NOT MAKE A MISTAKE.
The “trick” was to never send an e-mail. Log into the same account and read the drafts.
Yeah…..no one will eff up and leave the account open. Never.
You have to NOT MAKE A MISTAKE.
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It was in a great movie called Traitor starring Don Cheadle.
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Just saw an interview where Vance says that they need to make sure the TikTok app in the US is not spying on people which is good for national security but still went people to have access to this great platform. I think our adversaries have moved from TikTok to Signal. Not just spying on everyday people but the added benefit of eavesdropping on the Trump cabinet conducting sensitive business out in the open. 
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Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say
Trump’s national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up in the inbox.
“… A senior Waltz aide used the commercial email service for highly technical conversations with colleagues at other government agencies involving sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict, according to emails reviewed by The Post. While the NSC official used his Gmail account, his interagency colleagues used government-issued accounts, headers from the email correspondence show.
Waltz has had less sensitive, but potentially exploitable information sent to his Gmail, such as his schedule and other work documents, said officials, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe what they viewed as problematic handling of information. The officials said Waltz would sometimes copy and paste from his schedule into Signal to coordinate meetings and discussions. …”
But her emails!
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Pentagon Inspector General to Review Hegseth’s Role in Signal Chat
Watchdog says it will assess whether defense secretary followed department policies when he shared military strike plans in group chat
“… The decision by the inspector general to publicly share its move, and that it was focused on the defense chief, was unusual. The Office of the Inspector General is an independent watchdog group within the department.
… The office launched its review at the request of Sens. Roger Wicker (R., Miss.) and Jack Reed (D., R.I.), the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who wrote a letter to the inspector general last week. The White House confirmed that members of its national security team had communicated on Signal, a nongovernment app, about a coming strike in Yemen.
… President Trump fired 17 inspector generals across government agencies within days of taking office, including at the Pentagon. The department’s acting inspector general, Steven Stebbins, signed the memo announcing the review. …”
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“… Mr. Stebbins earned a B.A. in History from the University of Vermont, where he was captain of the cross country team and ran track; an M.A. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and an M.S. in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University. He competed on the U.S. team at the World Military Cross Country Championships in 1987 and 1990 and is an Eagle Scout. …”
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Your post sent me down a rabbit hole that turned out to be a complete dead end. Married to a member of Creed? Wasn't a member of Creed an actor on "The Office"?
Short Answer: No.
Long Answer: No. "The Office" actor, Creed Bratton was a member of "The Grass Roots." While Creed was a member of a popular band, it wasn't "Creed" and he isn't married to a sister of Mike Waltz.
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Creed was a terrible early 2000s rock band that wrapped itself in Christian imagery, while the lead singer was abusing drugs and alcohol things and committing acts ranging from assault on his wife and to suing women to prevent release of sex tapes.
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Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat
Internal investigation cleared the national security adviser Mike Waltz, but the mistake was months in the making
Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat
Internal investigation cleared the national security adviser Mike Waltz, but the mistake was months in the making
“… The disclosures nonetheless triggered a “forensic review” by the White House information technology office, which found that Waltz’s phone had saved Goldberg’s number as part of an unlikely series of events that started when Goldberg emailed the Trump campaign last October.
According to three people briefed on the internal investigation, Goldberg had emailed the campaign about a story that criticized Trump for his attitude towards wounded service members. To push back against the story, the campaign enlisted the help of Waltz, their national security surrogate.
Goldberg’s email was forwarded to then-Trump spokesperson Brian Hughes, who then copied and pasted the content of the email – including the signature block with Goldberg’s phone number – into a text message that he sent to Waltz, so that he could be briefed on the forthcoming story.
Waltz did not ultimately call Goldberg, the people said, but in an extraordinary twist, inadvertently ended up saving Goldberg’s number in his iPhone – under the contact card for Hughes, now the spokesperson for the national security council.
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According to the White House, the number was erroneously saved during a “contact suggestion update” by Waltz’s iPhone, which one person described as the function where an iPhone algorithm adds a previously unknown number to an existing contact that it detects may be related.
The mistake went unnoticed until last month when Waltz sought to add Hughes to the Signal group chat – but ended up adding Goldberg’s number to the 13 March message chain named “Houthi PC small group”, where several top US officials discussed plans for strikes against the Houthis. …”