• Signalgate, A Massive Trump National Security Failure

    From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 25 07:35:23 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    |
    | THE LAST WALTZ? Questions are swirling this morning about
    | the future of national security adviser Mike Waltz over his
    | role in what is surely -- hands-down -- one of the dumbest
    | security breaches of recent times. Waltz has yet to comment
    | publicly on The Atlantic's jaw-dropping revelation that he
    | set up an unsecured Signal chat group to discuss military
    | battle plans with Cabinet colleagues -- and then
    | accidentally invited Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey
    | Goldberg to join. POLITICO's Dasha Burns, Rachael Bade and
    | Eli Stokols revealed last night that multiple conversations
    | are now underway among White House officials over whether
    | Waltz should be forced to resign. All eyes are on the
    | commander-in-chief for a final decision.
    |
    | What's on Trump's mind? Ominously for Waltz, there has been
    | no message of support thus far from the president, who
    | instead spent last night posting videos on Truth Social
    | about his own achievements. In fact, Trump -- normally a
    | vocal armchair pundit -- has not commented at all on the
    | story, beyond a few initial boilerplate attacks on The
    | Atlantic. All the signs are he's mulling his options.
    |
    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.
    | ... <https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/03/25/signalgate-00246894>

    --bks

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 25 11:49:50 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.

    |
    | Senior officials in President Donald Trump's administration
    | are facing fallout from revelations that they used a
    | commercial messaging app to discuss secret military plans
    | for Yemen and inadvertently included a journalist in the
    | group chat. The subject is certain to come up Tuesday at a
    | previously scheduled Senate Intelligence Committee hearing
    | at which at least two of the Cabinet members who
    | participated in the chat -- Director of National
    | Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe
    | -- are slated to testify.
    | ... <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/25/trump-presidency-news/>

    --bks

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  • From Mitchell Holman@21:1/5 to Bradley K. Sherman on Tue Mar 25 13:05:15 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    [email protected] (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote in news:vru58u$j1j$[email protected]:

    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.

    |
    | Senior officials in President Donald Trump's administration
    | are facing fallout from revelations that they used a
    | commercial messaging app to discuss secret military plans
    | for Yemen and inadvertently included a journalist in the
    | group chat. The subject is certain to come up Tuesday at a
    | previously scheduled Senate Intelligence Committee hearing
    | at which at least two of the Cabinet members who
    | participated in the chat -- Director of National
    | Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe
    | -- are slated to testify.
    | ...
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/25/trump-presidency-ne


    --bks




    Speaking of security breaches, remember the
    top secret Russian binder that "went missing"
    when Trump left office. A Christmas present
    for Putin, no doubt.




    Binder of classified material on Russia
    reportedly went missing in final Trump
    days
    Dec 15 2023
    https://tinyurl.com/2s39sxa4



    Binder With Top-Secret Russia Intelligence
    Missing Since End of Trump Term
    Dec. 15, 2023
    https://tinyurl.com/28px33jk

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 25 15:35:43 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.

    |
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.
    | ...
    <https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-worst-and-the-dimmest>

    |
    | Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate
    | Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump administration
    | for using a Signal group to discuss plans for carrying out
    | bombing in Yemen, calling on officials to resign and saying
    | others would have been fired for the same actions.
    | ...
    | "If this was the case of a military officer or an
    | intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior,
    | they would be fired," he added.
    |
    | "This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless,
    | incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified
    | information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time
    | error."
    | ... <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to Sherman on Wed Mar 26 07:21:07 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 07:35:23 -0400 (EDT), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    |
    | THE LAST WALTZ? Questions are swirling this morning about
    | the future of national security adviser Mike Waltz over his
    | role in what is surely -- hands-down -- one of the dumbest
    | security breaches of recent times. Waltz has yet to comment
    | publicly on The Atlantic's jaw-dropping revelation that he
    | set up an unsecured Signal chat group to discuss military
    | battle plans with Cabinet colleagues -- and then
    | accidentally invited Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey
    | Goldberg to join. POLITICO's Dasha Burns, Rachael Bade and
    | Eli Stokols revealed last night that multiple conversations
    | are now underway among White House officials over whether
    | Waltz should be forced to resign. All eyes are on the
    | commander-in-chief for a final decision.
    |
    | What's on Trump's mind? Ominously for Waltz, there has been
    | no message of support thus far from the president, who
    | instead spent last night posting videos on Truth Social
    | about his own achievements. In fact, Trump -- normally a
    | vocal armchair pundit -- has not commented at all on the
    | story, beyond a few initial boilerplate attacks on The
    | Atlantic. All the signs are he's mulling his options.
    |
    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.
    | ...
    <https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/03/25/signalgate-00246894>

    --bks

    The only thing we know is that there is a chat. Only the reporter
    from the Atlantic (laughter) says that there were discussions of
    battle plans on it.

    So you quote a story from a rag reporting on the nonsense from another
    rag.

    Laughter.

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to Sherman on Wed Mar 26 07:32:16 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.

    |
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.
    | ...
    <https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-worst-and-the-dimmest>

    |
    | Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate
    | Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump administration
    | for using a Signal group to discuss plans for carrying out
    | bombing in Yemen, calling on officials to resign and saying
    | others would have been fired for the same actions.
    | ...
    | "If this was the case of a military officer or an
    | intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior,
    | they would be fired," he added.
    |
    | "This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless,
    | incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified
    | information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time
    | error."
    | ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.

    Selective belief system Bradley?

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  • From c186282@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 26 07:36:01 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    Clue ... other than the lefty MSM, hardly anybody CARES.

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 26 11:38:17 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    | "This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless,
    | incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified
    | information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time
    | error."

    |
    | Several days after top national security officials
    | accidentally included a reporter in a Signal chat about
    | bombing Houthi sites in Yemen, a Pentagon-wide advisory
    | warned against using the messaging app, even for
    | unclassified information.
    |
    | "A vulnerability has been identified in the Signal
    | Messenger Application," begins the department-wide email,
    | dated March 18 and obtained by NPR.
    | ... <https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-signal-vulnerability>

    --bks

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 26 12:48:38 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    | "This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless,
    | incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified
    | information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time
    | error."

    They just can't get their stories straight:
    | ...
    | So, inside 24 hours ... We've watched Hegseth flat-deny
    | what seems pretty clear evidence of battle plans being
    | leaked. We've watched Gabbard and Ratcliffe sitting side by
    | side in the Senate giving jarringly different answers --
    | one willing to respond, the other largely not. We've
    | watched Waltz give deeply unconvincing performances in the
    | Oval Office and on Fox. And we've watched Waltz and Trump
    | seemingly contradict one another about who was or wasn't to
    | blame. It's all been pretty messy, to say the least.
    | ... <https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/03/26/circling-the-wagons-00250066>

    --bks

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 26 14:04:27 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    |
    | The information Secretary of Defense Hegseth disclosed in
    | the Signal chat was classified at the time he wrote it,
    | especially because the operation had not even started yet,
    | according to a US defense official and another source who
    | was briefed on the operation.
    |
    | "It is safe to say that anybody in uniform would be court
    | martialed for this," the official said. "We don't provide
    | that level of information on unclassified systems, in order
    | to protect the lives and safety of the servicemembers
    | carrying out these strikes. If we did, it would be wholly
    | irresponsible. My most junior analysts know not to do this."
    |
    <https://x.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1904890815136039418>

    | ...
    | "It's inconceivable to me that people would not use the
    | classified channels that the government has spent so much
    | time and effort and money over decades trying to make as
    | uncompromisable as they can," John Bolton, who has become a
    | critic of Trump, told Here & Now. "And whether it's secure
    | videos, secure telephones, secure text or email kinds of
    | things, the channels are there. It's not like they don't
    | exist. Why would you ever not use them?"
    | ...
    <https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/03/25/signal-leak-trump>

    --bks

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  • From Blue Lives Matter@21:1/5 to Sherman on Wed Mar 26 11:16:23 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:04:27 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    |
    | The information Secretary of Defense Hegseth disclosed in
    | the Signal chat was classified at the time he wrote it,
    | especially because the operation had not even started yet,
    | according to a US defense official and another source who
    | was briefed on the operation.
    |
    | "It is safe to say that anybody in uniform would be court
    | martialed for this," the official said. "We don't provide
    | that level of information on unclassified systems, in order
    | to protect the lives and safety of the servicemembers
    | carrying out these strikes. If we did, it would be wholly
    | irresponsible. My most junior analysts know not to do this."
    |
    <https://x.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1904890815136039418>

    | ...
    | "It's inconceivable to me that people would not use the
    | classified channels that the government has spent so much
    | time and effort and money over decades trying to make as
    | uncompromisable as they can," John Bolton, who has become a
    | critic of Trump, told Here & Now. "And whether it's secure
    | videos, secure telephones, secure text or email kinds of
    | things, the channels are there. It's not like they don't
    | exist. Why would you ever not use them?"
    | ...
    <https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/03/25/signal-leak-trump>

    --bks

    <LOL> So says a CNN fruitcake....

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  • From Clave@21:1/5 to NoBody on Wed Mar 26 08:50:52 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 3/26/2025 4:32 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.

    |
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.
    | ...
    <https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-worst-and-the-dimmest>

    |
    | Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate
    | Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump administration
    | for using a Signal group to discuss plans for carrying out
    | bombing in Yemen, calling on officials to resign and saying
    | others would have been fired for the same actions.
    | ...
    | "If this was the case of a military officer or an
    | intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior,
    | they would be fired," he added.
    |
    | "This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless,
    | incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified
    | information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time
    | error."
    | ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.
    I love that you think they were only talking about the NCAA basketball tournament.

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  • From Chris Voigtlander@21:1/5 to NoBody on Wed Mar 26 08:52:49 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 3/26/2025 4:32 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.

    |
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.
    | ...
    <https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-worst-and-the-dimmest>

    |
    | Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate
    | Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump administration
    | for using a Signal group to discuss plans for carrying out
    | bombing in Yemen, calling on officials to resign and saying
    | others would have been fired for the same actions.
    | ...
    | "If this was the case of a military officer or an
    | intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior,
    | they would be fired," he added.
    |
    | "This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless,
    | incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified
    | information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time
    | error."
    | ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.

    Top secret plans for military strikes on Yemen is what they were discussing.

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  • From Blue Lives Matter@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 26 16:03:50 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.

    |
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.
    | ...
    <https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-worst-and-the-dimmest>

    |
    | Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate
    | Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump administration
    | for using a Signal group to discuss plans for carrying out
    | bombing in Yemen, calling on officials to resign and saying
    | others would have been fired for the same actions.
    | ...
    | "If this was the case of a military officer or an
    | intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior,
    | they would be fired," he added.
    |
    | "This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless,
    | incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified
    | information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time
    | error."
    | ... >><https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-g >>roup-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.

    Selective belief system Bradley?


    Exactly. I have it on good authority from my White House source that they were really texting about how they admire the pictures of Trump's dick he
    gave them as a hiring gift.

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  • From Skeeter@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 26 10:14:31 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    In article <lpVEP.1299224$[email protected]>,
    [email protected] says...

    On 3/26/2025 4:32 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:

    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.

    |
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.
    | ...
    <https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-worst-and-the-dimmest>

    |
    | Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate
    | Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump administration
    | for using a Signal group to discuss plans for carrying out
    | bombing in Yemen, calling on officials to resign and saying
    | others would have been fired for the same actions.
    | ...
    | "If this was the case of a military officer or an
    | intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior,
    | they would be fired," he added.
    |
    | "This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless,
    | incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified
    | information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time
    | error."
    | ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.

    Top secret plans for military strikes on Yemen is what they were discussing.

    Nothing classified.

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  • From Skeeter@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 26 10:15:01 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    In article <vs18h5$3sbhm$[email protected]>, Iron_White@Systemic_Patrriotism.org says...

    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K. >Sherman) wrote:

    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.

    |
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.
    | ...
    <https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-worst-and-the-dimmest>

    |
    | Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate
    | Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump administration
    | for using a Signal group to discuss plans for carrying out
    | bombing in Yemen, calling on officials to resign and saying
    | others would have been fired for the same actions.
    | ...
    | "If this was the case of a military officer or an
    | intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior,
    | they would be fired," he added.
    |
    | "This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless,
    | incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified
    | information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time
    | error."
    | ... >><https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-g >>roup-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.

    Selective belief system Bradley?


    Exactly. I have it on good authority from my White House source that they were really texting about how they admire the pictures of Trump's dick he gave them as a hiring gift.

    Your obsession with Trumps dick is noted.

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  • From J Carlson@21:1/5 to Bradley K. Sherman on Wed Mar 26 10:54:23 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 3/26/2025 10:38 AM, Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    Two things are crystal clear:
    1. Tulsi Gabbard lied in her testimony before Congress.

    Of course the Russian asset Gabbard lied. She's also a fucking moron. She refused to say if she was on the chat — she was, obviously — but then she talked
    about what was discussed, which she only could know if she was on the chat.

    She lied when she said no classified information was discussed. It was. Timing of the military strikes, which targets were to be hit, which weapons were to be used — all of that is classified. They lying whore lied.

    2. Trump admin officials are breaking the law by using
    Signal to "disappear" their communications.
    Too bad for them that the content of the chat is reproduced in its entirety on The Atlantic site:

    https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/

    It is funny beyond belief that all of the lying Nazi shitbags are impugning Goldberg's journalistic credentials and character. If he is so bad, why the *FUCK* did they add him to the call? In fact, Goldberg is one of the very best journalists in the country, and The Atlantic is one of the very best news sources. They are a proud member of The Gold Standard. If The Atlantic says something, it is true.

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 26 17:38:05 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    Two things are crystal clear:
    1. Tulsi Gabbard lied in her testimony before Congress.
    2. Trump admin officials are breaking the law by using
    Signal to "disappear" their communications.

    --bks

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  • From -hh@21:1/5 to NoBody on Wed Mar 26 16:25:35 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 3/26/25 07:32, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.


    Unfortunately for such spin attempts ... Goldman/Atlantic has receipts.


    Which is why multiple government sources have already confirmed key
    elements of the story. Its already pretty damn airtight.

    Plus a Catch-22 dilemma that the Administration has is that if they now
    try to claim that the Signal thread was a nothingburger because nothing
    was classified (which is BS, but let's continue), then they have zero
    legal basis to then try to go after the Atlantic.

    Plus as of last week, the Signal App was specifically not allowed to be installed on Gov't secure devices, so it begs the question of how did "Sometimes Sober" Pete copy/paste the strike data over to the chat?

    The prisoner's dilemma: either knowingly passed data from secured (high
    side) device to unsecured (low side) device -or- had spillage from having/allowing a prohibited App be installed onto a secure Gov device.
    Both are equally bad from a criminal culpability standpoint, because
    ignorance of the law isn't an excuse.

    And finally...the Atlantic already has the receipts that show that the
    Signal App had been configured for a one week auto-delete, which means
    if/when it goes missing, they've violated Federal document retention
    laws. This law applies regardless of classification status.


    -hh

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  • From Siri Cruz@21:1/5 to NoBody on Wed Mar 26 15:29:36 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 26/3/25 4:32, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.

    |
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.
    | ...
    <https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-worst-and-the-dimmest>

    |
    | Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate
    | Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump administration
    | for using a Signal group to discuss plans for carrying out
    | bombing in Yemen, calling on officials to resign and saying
    | others would have been fired for the same actions.
    | ...
    | "If this was the case of a military officer or an
    | intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior,
    | they would be fired," he added.
    |
    | "This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless,
    | incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified
    | information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time
    | error."
    | ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.

    Selective belief system Bradley?


    Ted Striker:
    My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're
    bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're
    coming in from the north, below their radar.

    Elaine Dickinson:
    When will you be back?

    Ted Striker:
    I can't tell you that. It's classified.



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  • From Siri Cruz@21:1/5 to Blue Lives Matter on Wed Mar 26 15:30:58 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 26/3/25 8:16, Blue Lives Matter wrote:
    On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:04:27 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    |
    | The information Secretary of Defense Hegseth disclosed in
    | the Signal chat was classified at the time he wrote it,
    | especially because the operation had not even started yet,
    | according to a US defense official and another source who
    | was briefed on the operation.
    |
    | "It is safe to say that anybody in uniform would be court
    | martialed for this," the official said. "We don't provide
    | that level of information on unclassified systems, in order
    | to protect the lives and safety of the servicemembers
    | carrying out these strikes. If we did, it would be wholly
    | irresponsible. My most junior analysts know not to do this."
    |
    <https://x.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1904890815136039418>

    | ...
    | "It's inconceivable to me that people would not use the
    | classified channels that the government has spent so much
    | time and effort and money over decades trying to make as
    | uncompromisable as they can," John Bolton, who has become a
    | critic of Trump, told Here & Now. "And whether it's secure
    | videos, secure telephones, secure text or email kinds of
    | things, the channels are there. It's not like they don't
    | exist. Why would you ever not use them?"
    | ...
    <https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/03/25/signal-leak-trump>

    --bks

    <LOL> So says a CNN fruitcake....


    Ted Striker:
    My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're
    bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're
    coming in from the north, below their radar.

    Elaine Dickinson:
    When will you be back?

    Ted Striker:
    I can't tell you that. It's classified.



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  • From pothead@21:1/5 to Skeeter on Wed Mar 26 22:45:03 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 2025-03-26, Skeeter <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <lpVEP.1299224$[email protected]>,
    [email protected] says...

    On 3/26/2025 4:32 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.

    |
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.
    | ...
    <https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-worst-and-the-dimmest>

    |
    | Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate
    | Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump administration
    | for using a Signal group to discuss plans for carrying out
    | bombing in Yemen, calling on officials to resign and saying
    | others would have been fired for the same actions.
    | ...
    | "If this was the case of a military officer or an
    | intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior,
    | they would be fired," he added.
    |
    | "This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless,
    | incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified
    | information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time
    | error."
    | ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.

    Top secret plans for military strikes on Yemen is what they were discussing.

    Nothing classified.

    And the attacks were executed perfectly as designed.
    That's the part the libbys leave out.


    --
    pothead
    Liberalism Is A Mental Disease
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  • From pothead@21:1/5 to -hh on Wed Mar 26 22:52:00 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 2025-03-26, -hh <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 3/26/25 07:32, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.


    Unfortunately for such spin attempts ... Goldman/Atlantic has receipts.


    Which is why multiple government sources have already confirmed key
    elements of the story. Its already pretty damn airtight.

    Plus a Catch-22 dilemma that the Administration has is that if they now
    try to claim that the Signal thread was a nothingburger because nothing
    was classified (which is BS, but let's continue), then they have zero
    legal basis to then try to go after the Atlantic.

    Plus as of last week, the Signal App was specifically not allowed to be installed on Gov't secure devices, so it begs the question of how did "Sometimes Sober" Pete copy/paste the strike data over to the chat?

    The prisoner's dilemma: either knowingly passed data from secured (high
    side) device to unsecured (low side) device -or- had spillage from having/allowing a prohibited App be installed onto a secure Gov device.
    Both are equally bad from a criminal culpability standpoint, because ignorance of the law isn't an excuse.

    And finally...the Atlantic already has the receipts that show that the
    Signal App had been configured for a one week auto-delete, which means if/when it goes missing, they've violated Federal document retention
    laws. This law applies regardless of classification status.


    -hh

    Personally, this needs to be investigated thouroughly to determine where the escape was.

    Was it a simple invite error?
    We all have sent emails to the wrong person based upon autofill.
    Careless, but it does happen.

    Was it a rogue insider leaking?

    Was it a security hack into someone's phone or the Signal app itself?

    I will not speculate at this point but the latest information from the WH admits
    sensitive data was shared but not secret data which emails were sent to secure mailboxes.

    As for the reporter and The Atlantic, both are Trump/conservative hating so
    I have to wonder why a conservative, or other MSM liberal reporter was given access to the call but instead one of the most rabid haters on the planet was.

    Seems a little too coincidental to me.

    Let's see how it plays out but for now Trump owns it.


    --
    pothead
    Liberalism Is A Mental Disease
    Treat it accordingly <https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14512427/Doctors-reveal-symptoms-Trump-Derangement-Syndrome-tell-youve-got-it.html>

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Mar 26 22:53:48 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    Skeeter <[email protected]> wrote:
    ...
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.
    ...
    Nothing classified.

    Bullshit, even Trump has stopped saying that:
    | ...
    | After President Trump and his administration insisted for
    | days that the information leaked in the Signal chat was not
    | classified, he appeared to backtrack on the claim in his
    | Oval Office remarks after the full transcript was released.
    | Asked if he still believed nothing classified was shared,
    | Trump responded: "That's what I've heard. I don't know. I'm
    | not sure, you have to ask the various people involved."
    | ...
    <https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/26/us/trump-news>

    --bks

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  • From Siri Cruz@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 26 18:20:43 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 26/3/25 4:36, c186282 wrote:
    Clue ... other than the lefty MSM, hardly anybody CARES.

    Hilary's email are still a current topic.

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  • From Siri Cruz@21:1/5 to pothead on Wed Mar 26 18:20:35 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 26/3/25 15:52, pothead wrote:
    Let's see how it plays out but for now Trump owns it.

    I hope so instead of the usual shuck and jive he has tried so far.

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  • From Siri Cruz@21:1/5 to Bradley K. Sherman on Wed Mar 26 18:20:48 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 26/3/25 10:38, [email protected] (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    Two things are crystal clear:
    1. Tulsi Gabbard lied in her testimony before Congress.
    2. Trump admin officials are breaking the law by using

    We have known since Nixon it is not the crime that damns you, but
    the cover up.


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  • From Siri Cruz@21:1/5 to Clave on Wed Mar 26 18:20:52 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 26/3/25 8:50, Clave wrote:
    On 3/26/2025 4:32 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected]
    (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.

    |
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.
    | ...
    <https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-worst-and-the-dimmest>

    |
    | Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate
    | Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump administration
    | for using a Signal group to discuss plans for carrying out
    | bombing in Yemen, calling on officials to resign and saying
    | others would have been fired for the same actions.
    | ...
    | "If this was the case of a military officer or an
    | intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior,
    | they would be fired," he added.
    |
    | "This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless,
    | incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified
    | information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time
    | error."
    | ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>


    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.
    I love that you think they were only talking about the NCAA
    basketball tournament.

    Everyone can point to transcripts, but unperson would point out
    it is paywalled, incomplete, inaccurate, his dog ate the url, and
    nobody told him anything.

    I know nuffink! nuffink!

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  • From Siri Cruz@21:1/5 to NoBody on Wed Mar 26 18:20:56 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 26/3/25 4:21, NoBody wrote:
    | no message of support thus far from the president, who
    | instead spent last night posting videos on Truth Social
    | about his own achievements. In fact, Trump -- normally a


    Except television to broadcast Bolahoi ballet Swan Lake on
    continuous loop.

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to Iron_White@Systemic_Patrriotism.org on Thu Mar 27 07:08:23 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:16:23 -0400, Blue Lives Matter <Iron_White@Systemic_Patrriotism.org> wrote:

    On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:04:27 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    |
    | The information Secretary of Defense Hegseth disclosed in
    | the Signal chat was classified at the time he wrote it,
    | especially because the operation had not even started yet,
    | according to a US defense official and another source who
    | was briefed on the operation.
    |
    | "It is safe to say that anybody in uniform would be court
    | martialed for this," the official said. "We don't provide
    | that level of information on unclassified systems, in order
    | to protect the lives and safety of the servicemembers
    | carrying out these strikes. If we did, it would be wholly
    | irresponsible. My most junior analysts know not to do this."
    |
    <https://x.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1904890815136039418>

    | ...
    | "It's inconceivable to me that people would not use the
    | classified channels that the government has spent so much
    | time and effort and money over decades trying to make as
    | uncompromisable as they can," John Bolton, who has become a
    | critic of Trump, told Here & Now. "And whether it's secure
    | videos, secure telephones, secure text or email kinds of
    | things, the channels are there. It's not like they don't
    | exist. Why would you ever not use them?"
    | ...
    <https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/03/25/signal-leak-trump>

    --bks

    <LOL> So says a CNN fruitcake....

    And posted by Bradley, the leftist fruitcake.

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Mar 27 07:11:41 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:45:03 -0000 (UTC), pothead
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-03-26, Skeeter <[email protected]> wrote:
    In article <lpVEP.1299224$[email protected]>,
    [email protected] says...

    On 3/26/2025 4:32 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.

    |
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.
    | ...
    <https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-worst-and-the-dimmest>

    |
    | Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate
    | Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump administration
    | for using a Signal group to discuss plans for carrying out
    | bombing in Yemen, calling on officials to resign and saying
    | others would have been fired for the same actions.
    | ...
    | "If this was the case of a military officer or an
    | intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior,
    | they would be fired," he added.
    |
    | "This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless,
    | incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified
    | information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time
    | error."
    | ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.

    Top secret plans for military strikes on Yemen is what they were discussing.

    Nothing classified.

    And the attacks were executed perfectly as designed.
    That's the part the libbys leave out.

    That's why they're inventing this non-story - to avoid giving Trump
    credit for good work.

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to Sherman on Thu Mar 27 07:12:22 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:53:48 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    Skeeter <[email protected]> wrote:
    ...
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.
    ...
    Nothing classified.

    Bullshit, even Trump has stopped saying that:
    | ...
    | After President Trump and his administration insisted for
    | days that the information leaked in the Signal chat was not
    | classified, he appeared to backtrack on the claim in his
    | Oval Office remarks after the full transcript was released.
    | Asked if he still believed nothing classified was shared,
    | Trump responded: "That's what I've heard. I don't know. I'm
    | not sure, you have to ask the various people involved."
    | ...
    <https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/26/us/trump-news>

    --bks

    Uh Bradley what you said he said is not what you quoted.

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to Sherman on Thu Mar 27 07:13:17 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:38:05 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    Two things are crystal clear:
    1. Tulsi Gabbard lied in her testimony before Congress.
    2. Trump admin officials are breaking the law by using
    Signal to "disappear" their communications.

    --bks

    How about you prove the nonsense you just claimed?

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  • From -hh@21:1/5 to pothead on Thu Mar 27 08:39:35 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 3/26/25 18:52, pothead wrote:
    On 2025-03-26, -hh <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 3/26/25 07:32, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.


    Unfortunately for such spin attempts ... Goldman/Atlantic has receipts.


    Which is why multiple government sources have already confirmed key
    elements of the story. Its already pretty damn airtight.

    Plus a Catch-22 dilemma that the Administration has is that if they now
    try to claim that the Signal thread was a nothingburger because nothing
    was classified (which is BS, but let's continue), then they have zero
    legal basis to then try to go after the Atlantic.

    Plus as of last week, the Signal App was specifically not allowed to be
    installed on Gov't secure devices, so it begs the question of how did
    "Sometimes Sober" Pete copy/paste the strike data over to the chat?

    The prisoner's dilemma: either knowingly passed data from secured (high
    side) device to unsecured (low side) device -or- had spillage from
    having/allowing a prohibited App be installed onto a secure Gov device.
    Both are equally bad from a criminal culpability standpoint, because
    ignorance of the law isn't an excuse.

    And finally...the Atlantic already has the receipts that show that the
    Signal App had been configured for a one week auto-delete, which means
    if/when it goes missing, they've violated Federal document retention
    laws. This law applies regardless of classification status.


    -hh

    Personally, this needs to be investigated thouroughly to determine where the escape was.

    Was it a simple invite error?
    We all have sent emails to the wrong person based upon autofill.
    Careless, but it does happen.

    The invite might have been, but protocols to positively verify each
    attendee didn't happen (violation), nor their need-to-know (violation).


    Was it a rogue insider leaking?

    Anything's possible when you didn't individually clear each attendee.

    Was it a security hack into someone's phone or the Signal app itself?

    Also possible, more likely at the individual phone level. Despite how
    Signal likes to brag that it is encrypted, the devices its on aren't,
    which is probably part of the reason why it isn't an authorized App for
    secure devices ... recent DoD guidance allows Signal for some very minor things, but it is not authorized even for just the FOUO/CUI level, let
    alone S / TC / SCI stuff.

    <https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-signal-vulnerability>

    Another threat vector is that everyone was outside of a SCIF, so their
    cellular tower signals were at risk of interception...and for those who
    were OCONUS, like 100% odds...and encryption can be broken by various
    means today by State actors: not only huge AI farms, but this is also
    why the US is concerned of foreign advancements in quantum computing:
    quantum is many orders of magnitude faster than brute force.

    I will not speculate at this point but the latest information from the WH admits
    sensitive data was shared but not secret data which emails were sent to secure
    mailboxes.

    Problem is that Signal's not even authorized for use for sensitive, so
    all that this announcement is doing is *trying* to protect Pete & the
    others from straight-up criminal charges over classified spillage...and
    yes, the details that were listed were operational & always classified
    in advance.

    <https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-signal-app-vulnerabilities-before-houthi-strike-chat/>


    As for the reporter and The Atlantic, both are Trump/conservative hating so
    I have to wonder why a conservative, or other MSM liberal reporter was given access to the call but instead one of the most rabid haters on the planet was.

    Seems a little too coincidental to me.

    Use of Signal to violate the Presidential Records Act is reportedly
    listed in the Project 2025 playbook. This breach is indicative of it
    being extensively used as a method to violate the law on document
    retention, as it was set with a "one week" auto-expire.


    Let's see how it plays out but for now Trump owns it.

    He certainly does own it ..

    .. and I read last night a short paragraph from a military SME who
    pointed out the key datapoints within the Signal discussion which very reasonably could have been used within the timeframe allowed to not only protect their own people (which may have been a war crime BTW), but
    harden air defenses against the F/A-18s (higher risk for our pilots) but
    it also disclosed the region that our Aircraft Carrier battle fleet was,
    which could have come under attack as well: the "what's the worst that
    could happen?" scenario is that we could have lost an entire Carrier in addition to whatever aircraft.

    We got lucky a couple of ways this time that nothing bad happened, but
    we've also revealed vulnerability vectors that won't be overlooked next
    time by opponents. This is why this shit is taken seriously by real
    adults: "Loose Lips Sink Ships".


    -hh

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  • From pothead@21:1/5 to -hh on Thu Mar 27 13:00:59 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 2025-03-27, -hh <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 3/26/25 18:52, pothead wrote:
    On 2025-03-26, -hh <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 3/26/25 07:32, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.


    Unfortunately for such spin attempts ... Goldman/Atlantic has receipts.


    Which is why multiple government sources have already confirmed key
    elements of the story. Its already pretty damn airtight.

    Plus a Catch-22 dilemma that the Administration has is that if they now
    try to claim that the Signal thread was a nothingburger because nothing
    was classified (which is BS, but let's continue), then they have zero
    legal basis to then try to go after the Atlantic.

    Plus as of last week, the Signal App was specifically not allowed to be
    installed on Gov't secure devices, so it begs the question of how did
    "Sometimes Sober" Pete copy/paste the strike data over to the chat?

    The prisoner's dilemma: either knowingly passed data from secured (high
    side) device to unsecured (low side) device -or- had spillage from
    having/allowing a prohibited App be installed onto a secure Gov device.
    Both are equally bad from a criminal culpability standpoint, because
    ignorance of the law isn't an excuse.

    And finally...the Atlantic already has the receipts that show that the
    Signal App had been configured for a one week auto-delete, which means
    if/when it goes missing, they've violated Federal document retention
    laws. This law applies regardless of classification status.


    -hh

    Personally, this needs to be investigated thouroughly to determine where the >> escape was.

    Was it a simple invite error?
    We all have sent emails to the wrong person based upon autofill.
    Careless, but it does happen.

    The invite might have been, but protocols to positively verify each
    attendee didn't happen (violation), nor their need-to-know (violation).


    Was it a rogue insider leaking?

    Anything's possible when you didn't individually clear each attendee.

    Was it a security hack into someone's phone or the Signal app itself?

    Also possible, more likely at the individual phone level. Despite how
    Signal likes to brag that it is encrypted, the devices its on aren't,
    which is probably part of the reason why it isn't an authorized App for secure devices ... recent DoD guidance allows Signal for some very minor things, but it is not authorized even for just the FOUO/CUI level, let
    alone S / TC / SCI stuff.

    <https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-signal-vulnerability>

    Another threat vector is that everyone was outside of a SCIF, so their cellular tower signals were at risk of interception...and for those who
    were OCONUS, like 100% odds...and encryption can be broken by various
    means today by State actors: not only huge AI farms, but this is also
    why the US is concerned of foreign advancements in quantum computing:
    quantum is many orders of magnitude faster than brute force.

    I will not speculate at this point but the latest information from the WH admits
    sensitive data was shared but not secret data which emails were sent to secure
    mailboxes.

    Problem is that Signal's not even authorized for use for sensitive, so
    all that this announcement is doing is *trying* to protect Pete & the
    others from straight-up criminal charges over classified spillage...and
    yes, the details that were listed were operational & always classified
    in advance.

    <https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-signal-app-vulnerabilities-before-houthi-strike-chat/>


    As for the reporter and The Atlantic, both are Trump/conservative hating so >> I have to wonder why a conservative, or other MSM liberal reporter was given >> access to the call but instead one of the most rabid haters on the planet was.

    Seems a little too coincidental to me.

    Use of Signal to violate the Presidential Records Act is reportedly
    listed in the Project 2025 playbook. This breach is indicative of it
    being extensively used as a method to violate the law on document
    retention, as it was set with a "one week" auto-expire.


    Let's see how it plays out but for now Trump owns it.

    He certainly does own it ..

    .. and I read last night a short paragraph from a military SME who
    pointed out the key datapoints within the Signal discussion which very reasonably could have been used within the timeframe allowed to not only protect their own people (which may have been a war crime BTW), but
    harden air defenses against the F/A-18s (higher risk for our pilots) but
    it also disclosed the region that our Aircraft Carrier battle fleet was, which could have come under attack as well: the "what's the worst that
    could happen?" scenario is that we could have lost an entire Carrier in addition to whatever aircraft.

    We got lucky a couple of ways this time that nothing bad happened, but
    we've also revealed vulnerability vectors that won't be overlooked next
    time by opponents. This is why this shit is taken seriously by real
    adults: "Loose Lips Sink Ships".


    -hh

    Good post.
    I confess I know nothing about Signal and in fact had never heard of it before recently.
    I know that What's App is forbidden by most large corporations due to security concerns.

    I'm interested to see how this one plays out and at this point nothing will surprise me.


    --
    pothead
    Liberalism Is A Mental Disease
    Treat it accordingly <https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14512427/Doctors-reveal-symptoms-Trump-Derangement-Syndrome-tell-youve-got-it.html>

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 27 13:10:58 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    |
    | There is no administration in the world -- beyond this one
    | -- where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody
    | gets fired or resigns. Not in London. Not in Moscow. Not in
    | Tokyo. Not in Pyongyang. Nowhere.
    | ... <https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/03/27/whats-next-for-waltz-and-hegseth-00253200>

    --bks

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 27 13:35:26 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    Two things are crystal clear:
    1. Tulsi Gabbard lied in her testimony before Congress.
    2. Trump admin officials are breaking the law by using
    Signal to "disappear" their communications.

    |
    | "The 5 things Tulsi Gabbard did last week"
    |
    | - Lied, under oath, when she denied classified info was
    | discussed in the chat.
    |
    | - Claimed she misremembered.
    |
    | - Couldn't say what phone she used.
    |
    | - Played word games with the Senate to avoid culpability.
    |
    | - Developed sudden amnesia on classification.
    |
    <https://bsky.app/profile/jack-e-smith.bsky.social/post/3llecqnovds2b>

    --bks

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  • From Mitchell Holman@21:1/5 to Bradley K. Sherman on Thu Mar 27 13:41:09 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    [email protected] (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote in news:vs3ip2$7pa$[email protected]:

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    |
    | There is no administration in the world -- beyond this one
    | -- where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody
    | gets fired or resigns. Not in London. Not in Moscow. Not in
    | Tokyo. Not in Pyongyang. Nowhere.
    | ...
    <https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/03/27/whats-next-fo r-waltz-and-hegseth-00253200>

    --bks



    "But her emails!"

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 27 14:38:50 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    |
    | Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed on Wednesday that
    | he took part in the group chat on the Signal app earlier
    | this month among top United States officials ahead of
    | American airstrikes in Yemen and said that someone had made
    | a "big mistake" by adding a journalist to the group.
    | ... <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/politics/rubio-signal-chat-mistake.html>

    |
    | Experts Call Use of Signal 'Unbelievably Poor' Security
    | Practice
    |
    | The federal government previously warned against using the
    | app.
    | ... <https://thedispatch.com/article/signal-yemen-the-atlantic-national-security/>

    --bks

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  • From Chris Ahlstrom@21:1/5 to Bradley K. Sherman on Thu Mar 27 10:52:28 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    Bradley K. Sherman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    | There is no administration in the world -- beyond this one
    | -- where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody
    | gets fired or resigns. Not in London. Not in Moscow. Not in
    | Tokyo. Not in Pyongyang. Nowhere.
    | ... <https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/03/27/whats-next-for-waltz-and-hegseth-00253200>

    Hell, in Pyongyang, a guy who screwed up like Hegseth would be
    executed by anti-aircraft gun.

    --
    Every cloud has a silver lining; you should have sold it, and bought titanium.

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  • From Skeeter@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 27 08:55:58 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    In article <[email protected]>,
    [email protected] says...

    [email protected] (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote in news:vs3ip2$7pa$[email protected]:

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    |
    | There is no administration in the world -- beyond this one
    | -- where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody
    | gets fired or resigns. Not in London. Not in Moscow. Not in
    | Tokyo. Not in Pyongyang. Nowhere.
    | ... <https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/03/27/whats-next-fo r-waltz-and-hegseth-00253200>

    --bks



    "But her emails!"

    Look at you scraping bottom.

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  • From J Carlson@21:1/5 to NoBody on Thu Mar 27 09:05:11 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 3/27/2025 4:13 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:38:05 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    Two things are crystal clear:
    1. Tulsi Gabbard lied in her testimony before Congress.
    2. Trump admin officials are breaking the law by using
    Signal to "disappear" their communications.

    --bks

    How about you prove the nonsense you just claimed?
    It is beyond dispute that Gabbard lied to Congress. Classified information was at the core of the illegal Signal chat.

    The Federal Records Act *requires* officials to preserve all communications related to official government business, which planning a military attack clearly is. Signal was used *precisely* because the records are automatically purged. That's a violation of federal law.

    Stop being such a feckless cunt.

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  • From J Carlson@21:1/5 to Skeeter on Thu Mar 27 09:01:01 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 3/26/2025 9:14 AM, Skeeter wrote:
    In article <lpVEP.1299224$[email protected]>,
    [email protected] says...

    On 3/26/2025 4:32 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.

    |
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.
    | ...
    <https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-worst-and-the-dimmest>

    |
    | Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate
    | Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump administration
    | for using a Signal group to discuss plans for carrying out
    | bombing in Yemen, calling on officials to resign and saying
    | others would have been fired for the same actions.
    | ...
    | "If this was the case of a military officer or an
    | intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior,
    | they would be fired," he added.
    |
    | "This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless,
    | incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified
    | information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time
    | error."
    | ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.

    Top secret plans for military strikes on Yemen is what they were discussing.

    Nothing classified.
    Reams of classified info was discussed.

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  • From Skeeter@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 27 15:05:02 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    In article <vs3snu$gdcu$[email protected]>,
    [email protected] says...

    On 3/26/2025 9:14 AM, Skeeter wrote:
    In article <lpVEP.1299224$[email protected]>,
    [email protected] says...

    On 3/26/2025 4:32 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.

    |
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.
    | ...
    <https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-worst-and-the-dimmest>

    |
    | Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate
    | Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump administration
    | for using a Signal group to discuss plans for carrying out
    | bombing in Yemen, calling on officials to resign and saying
    | others would have been fired for the same actions.
    | ...
    | "If this was the case of a military officer or an
    | intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior,
    | they would be fired," he added.
    |
    | "This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless,
    | incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified
    | information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time
    | error."
    | ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.

    Top secret plans for military strikes on Yemen is what they were discussing.

    Nothing classified.
    Reams of classified info was discussed.

    Nope and nothing top secret either.

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  • From Skeeter@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 27 15:06:22 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    In article <vs3svo$gdcu$[email protected]>,
    [email protected] says...

    On 3/27/2025 4:13 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:38:05 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K. Sherman) wrote:

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    Two things are crystal clear:
    1. Tulsi Gabbard lied in her testimony before Congress.
    2. Trump admin officials are breaking the law by using
    Signal to "disappear" their communications.

    --bks

    How about you prove the nonsense you just claimed?
    It is beyond dispute that Gabbard lied to Congress. Classified information was
    at the core of the illegal Signal chat.

    No.

    The Federal Records Act *requires* officials to preserve all communications related to official government business, which planning a military attack clearly is. Signal was used *precisely* because the records are automatically purged. That's a violation of federal law.

    Stop being such a feckless cunt.

    The reporter making it public committed a crime.

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to Sherman on Fri Mar 28 07:01:07 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:10:58 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    |
    | There is no administration in the world -- beyond this one
    | -- where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody
    | gets fired or resigns. Not in London. Not in Moscow. Not in
    | Tokyo. Not in Pyongyang. Nowhere.
    | ...
    <https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/03/27/whats-next-for-waltz-and-hegseth-00253200>

    --bks

    Personally I believe someone added him on purpose. But not one person
    who is rational cares about this story.

    That leaves you out.

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to Skeeter on Fri Mar 28 07:07:05 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:05:02 -0600, Skeeter <[email protected]> wrote:

    In article <vs3snu$gdcu$[email protected]>,
    [email protected] says...

    On 3/26/2025 9:14 AM, Skeeter wrote:
    In article <lpVEP.1299224$[email protected]>,
    [email protected] says...

    On 3/26/2025 4:32 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.

    |
    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.
    | ...
    <https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-worst-and-the-dimmest>

    |
    | Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate
    | Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump administration
    | for using a Signal group to discuss plans for carrying out
    | bombing in Yemen, calling on officials to resign and saying
    | others would have been fired for the same actions.
    | ...
    | "If this was the case of a military officer or an
    | intelligence officer and they had this kind of behavior,
    | they would be fired," he added.
    |
    | "This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless,
    | incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified
    | information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time
    | error."
    | ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.

    Top secret plans for military strikes on Yemen is what they were discussing.

    Nothing classified.
    Reams of classified info was discussed.

    Nope and nothing top secret either.

    When was the last time Bradley was concerned about the truth?

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Mar 28 07:04:29 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:00:59 -0000 (UTC), pothead
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-03-27, -hh <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 3/26/25 18:52, pothead wrote:
    On 2025-03-26, -hh <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 3/26/25 07:32, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that
    there were any plans discussed in the chat.


    Unfortunately for such spin attempts ... Goldman/Atlantic has receipts. >>>>

    Which is why multiple government sources have already confirmed key
    elements of the story. Its already pretty damn airtight.

    Plus a Catch-22 dilemma that the Administration has is that if they now >>>> try to claim that the Signal thread was a nothingburger because nothing >>>> was classified (which is BS, but let's continue), then they have zero
    legal basis to then try to go after the Atlantic.

    Plus as of last week, the Signal App was specifically not allowed to be >>>> installed on Gov't secure devices, so it begs the question of how did
    "Sometimes Sober" Pete copy/paste the strike data over to the chat?

    The prisoner's dilemma: either knowingly passed data from secured (high >>>> side) device to unsecured (low side) device -or- had spillage from
    having/allowing a prohibited App be installed onto a secure Gov device. >>>> Both are equally bad from a criminal culpability standpoint, because
    ignorance of the law isn't an excuse.

    And finally...the Atlantic already has the receipts that show that the >>>> Signal App had been configured for a one week auto-delete, which means >>>> if/when it goes missing, they've violated Federal document retention
    laws. This law applies regardless of classification status.


    -hh

    Personally, this needs to be investigated thouroughly to determine where the
    escape was.

    Was it a simple invite error?
    We all have sent emails to the wrong person based upon autofill.
    Careless, but it does happen.

    The invite might have been, but protocols to positively verify each
    attendee didn't happen (violation), nor their need-to-know (violation).


    Was it a rogue insider leaking?

    Anything's possible when you didn't individually clear each attendee.

    Was it a security hack into someone's phone or the Signal app itself?

    Also possible, more likely at the individual phone level. Despite how
    Signal likes to brag that it is encrypted, the devices its on aren't,
    which is probably part of the reason why it isn't an authorized App for
    secure devices ... recent DoD guidance allows Signal for some very minor
    things, but it is not authorized even for just the FOUO/CUI level, let
    alone S / TC / SCI stuff.
    <https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-signal-vulnerability>

    Another threat vector is that everyone was outside of a SCIF, so their
    cellular tower signals were at risk of interception...and for those who
    were OCONUS, like 100% odds...and encryption can be broken by various
    means today by State actors: not only huge AI farms, but this is also
    why the US is concerned of foreign advancements in quantum computing:
    quantum is many orders of magnitude faster than brute force.

    I will not speculate at this point but the latest information from the WH admits
    sensitive data was shared but not secret data which emails were sent to secure
    mailboxes.

    Problem is that Signal's not even authorized for use for sensitive, so
    all that this announcement is doing is *trying* to protect Pete & the
    others from straight-up criminal charges over classified spillage...and
    yes, the details that were listed were operational & always classified
    in advance.
    <https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-signal-app-vulnerabilities-before-houthi-strike-chat/>


    As for the reporter and The Atlantic, both are Trump/conservative hating so >>> I have to wonder why a conservative, or other MSM liberal reporter was given
    access to the call but instead one of the most rabid haters on the planet was.

    Seems a little too coincidental to me.

    Use of Signal to violate the Presidential Records Act is reportedly
    listed in the Project 2025 playbook. This breach is indicative of it
    being extensively used as a method to violate the law on document
    retention, as it was set with a "one week" auto-expire.


    Let's see how it plays out but for now Trump owns it.

    He certainly does own it ..

    .. and I read last night a short paragraph from a military SME who
    pointed out the key datapoints within the Signal discussion which very
    reasonably could have been used within the timeframe allowed to not only
    protect their own people (which may have been a war crime BTW), but
    harden air defenses against the F/A-18s (higher risk for our pilots) but
    it also disclosed the region that our Aircraft Carrier battle fleet was,
    which could have come under attack as well: the "what's the worst that
    could happen?" scenario is that we could have lost an entire Carrier in
    addition to whatever aircraft.

    We got lucky a couple of ways this time that nothing bad happened, but
    we've also revealed vulnerability vectors that won't be overlooked next
    time by opponents. This is why this shit is taken seriously by real
    adults: "Loose Lips Sink Ships".


    -hh

    Good post.
    I confess I know nothing about Signal and in fact had never heard of it before >recently.
    I know that What's App is forbidden by most large corporations due to security >concerns.

    I'm interested to see how this one plays out and at this point nothing will >surprise me.

    The reporter needs be charged. It most certainly can't be legal to
    publish official governent conversations. He can't hide behind the
    usual "sources" nonsense because he himself is the source.

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  • From pothead@21:1/5 to NoBody on Fri Mar 28 13:02:02 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 2025-03-28, NoBody <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:10:58 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    |
    | There is no administration in the world -- beyond this one
    | -- where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody
    | gets fired or resigns. Not in London. Not in Moscow. Not in
    | Tokyo. Not in Pyongyang. Nowhere.
    | ... >><https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/03/27/whats-next-for-waltz-and-hegseth-00253200>

    --bks

    Personally I believe someone added him on purpose. But not one person
    who is rational cares about this story.

    I'm starting to think the same.
    Occam's Razor and all that.

    That leaves you out.

    lol

    --
    pothead
    Liberalism Is A Mental Disease
    Treat it accordingly <https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14512427/Doctors-reveal-symptoms-Trump-Derangement-Syndrome-tell-youve-got-it.html>

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  • From pothead@21:1/5 to NoBody on Fri Mar 28 13:05:24 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 2025-03-28, NoBody <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:00:59 -0000 (UTC), pothead
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-03-27, -hh <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 3/26/25 18:52, pothead wrote:
    On 2025-03-26, -hh <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 3/26/25 07:32, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K. >>>>>> Sherman) wrote:

    ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that >>>>>> there were any plans discussed in the chat.


    Unfortunately for such spin attempts ... Goldman/Atlantic has receipts. >>>>>

    Which is why multiple government sources have already confirmed key
    elements of the story. Its already pretty damn airtight.

    Plus a Catch-22 dilemma that the Administration has is that if they now >>>>> try to claim that the Signal thread was a nothingburger because nothing >>>>> was classified (which is BS, but let's continue), then they have zero >>>>> legal basis to then try to go after the Atlantic.

    Plus as of last week, the Signal App was specifically not allowed to be >>>>> installed on Gov't secure devices, so it begs the question of how did >>>>> "Sometimes Sober" Pete copy/paste the strike data over to the chat?

    The prisoner's dilemma: either knowingly passed data from secured (high >>>>> side) device to unsecured (low side) device -or- had spillage from
    having/allowing a prohibited App be installed onto a secure Gov device. >>>>> Both are equally bad from a criminal culpability standpoint, because >>>>> ignorance of the law isn't an excuse.

    And finally...the Atlantic already has the receipts that show that the >>>>> Signal App had been configured for a one week auto-delete, which means >>>>> if/when it goes missing, they've violated Federal document retention >>>>> laws. This law applies regardless of classification status.


    -hh

    Personally, this needs to be investigated thouroughly to determine where the
    escape was.

    Was it a simple invite error?
    We all have sent emails to the wrong person based upon autofill.
    Careless, but it does happen.

    The invite might have been, but protocols to positively verify each
    attendee didn't happen (violation), nor their need-to-know (violation).


    Was it a rogue insider leaking?

    Anything's possible when you didn't individually clear each attendee.

    Was it a security hack into someone's phone or the Signal app itself?

    Also possible, more likely at the individual phone level. Despite how
    Signal likes to brag that it is encrypted, the devices its on aren't,
    which is probably part of the reason why it isn't an authorized App for
    secure devices ... recent DoD guidance allows Signal for some very minor >>> things, but it is not authorized even for just the FOUO/CUI level, let
    alone S / TC / SCI stuff.
    <https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-signal-vulnerability>

    Another threat vector is that everyone was outside of a SCIF, so their
    cellular tower signals were at risk of interception...and for those who
    were OCONUS, like 100% odds...and encryption can be broken by various
    means today by State actors: not only huge AI farms, but this is also
    why the US is concerned of foreign advancements in quantum computing:
    quantum is many orders of magnitude faster than brute force.

    I will not speculate at this point but the latest information from the WH admits
    sensitive data was shared but not secret data which emails were sent to secure
    mailboxes.

    Problem is that Signal's not even authorized for use for sensitive, so
    all that this announcement is doing is *trying* to protect Pete & the
    others from straight-up criminal charges over classified spillage...and
    yes, the details that were listed were operational & always classified
    in advance.
    <https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-signal-app-vulnerabilities-before-houthi-strike-chat/>


    As for the reporter and The Atlantic, both are Trump/conservative hating so
    I have to wonder why a conservative, or other MSM liberal reporter was given
    access to the call but instead one of the most rabid haters on the planet was.

    Seems a little too coincidental to me.

    Use of Signal to violate the Presidential Records Act is reportedly
    listed in the Project 2025 playbook. This breach is indicative of it
    being extensively used as a method to violate the law on document
    retention, as it was set with a "one week" auto-expire.


    Let's see how it plays out but for now Trump owns it.

    He certainly does own it ..

    .. and I read last night a short paragraph from a military SME who
    pointed out the key datapoints within the Signal discussion which very
    reasonably could have been used within the timeframe allowed to not only >>> protect their own people (which may have been a war crime BTW), but
    harden air defenses against the F/A-18s (higher risk for our pilots) but >>> it also disclosed the region that our Aircraft Carrier battle fleet was, >>> which could have come under attack as well: the "what's the worst that
    could happen?" scenario is that we could have lost an entire Carrier in
    addition to whatever aircraft.

    We got lucky a couple of ways this time that nothing bad happened, but
    we've also revealed vulnerability vectors that won't be overlooked next
    time by opponents. This is why this shit is taken seriously by real
    adults: "Loose Lips Sink Ships".


    -hh

    Good post.
    I confess I know nothing about Signal and in fact had never heard of it before
    recently.
    I know that What's App is forbidden by most large corporations due to security
    concerns.

    I'm interested to see how this one plays out and at this point nothing will >>surprise me.

    The reporter needs be charged. It most certainly can't be legal to
    publish official governent conversations. He can't hide behind the
    usual "sources" nonsense because he himself is the source.

    It's going to get interesting for sure.
    The left wing media are foaming at the mouth of this one but the average person doesn't really give a hoot. It happened. Fix it so it never happens again and move on.



    --
    pothead
    Liberalism Is A Mental Disease
    Treat it accordingly <https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14512427/Doctors-reveal-symptoms-Trump-Derangement-Syndrome-tell-youve-got-it.html>

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  • From Lee@21:1/5 to NoBody on Fri Mar 28 08:13:46 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 3/28/2025 4:01 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:10:58 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get.
    | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots,
    | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    |
    | There is no administration in the world -- beyond this one
    | -- where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody
    | gets fired or resigns. Not in London. Not in Moscow. Not in
    | Tokyo. Not in Pyongyang. Nowhere.
    | ...
    <https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/03/27/whats-next-for-waltz-and-hegseth-00253200>

    --bks

    Personally I believe

    on the basis of no evidence...

    someone added him on purpose.

    Waltz admits he added him, but accidentally. Are you calling Waltz a liar?

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  • From -hh@21:1/5 to pothead on Fri Mar 28 11:25:31 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 3/28/25 09:05, pothead wrote:
    On 2025-03-28, NoBody <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:00:59 -0000 (UTC), pothead
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-03-27, -hh <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 3/26/25 18:52, pothead wrote:
    On 2025-03-26, -hh <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 3/26/25 07:32, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K. >>>>>>> Sherman) wrote:

    ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that >>>>>>> there were any plans discussed in the chat.


    Unfortunately for such spin attempts ... Goldman/Atlantic has receipts. >>>>>>

    Which is why multiple government sources have already confirmed key >>>>>> elements of the story. Its already pretty damn airtight.

    Plus a Catch-22 dilemma that the Administration has is that if they now >>>>>> try to claim that the Signal thread was a nothingburger because nothing >>>>>> was classified (which is BS, but let's continue), then they have zero >>>>>> legal basis to then try to go after the Atlantic.

    Plus as of last week, the Signal App was specifically not allowed to be >>>>>> installed on Gov't secure devices, so it begs the question of how did >>>>>> "Sometimes Sober" Pete copy/paste the strike data over to the chat? >>>>>>
    The prisoner's dilemma: either knowingly passed data from secured (high >>>>>> side) device to unsecured (low side) device -or- had spillage from >>>>>> having/allowing a prohibited App be installed onto a secure Gov device. >>>>>> Both are equally bad from a criminal culpability standpoint, because >>>>>> ignorance of the law isn't an excuse.

    And finally...the Atlantic already has the receipts that show that the >>>>>> Signal App had been configured for a one week auto-delete, which means >>>>>> if/when it goes missing, they've violated Federal document retention >>>>>> laws. This law applies regardless of classification status.


    -hh

    Personally, this needs to be investigated thouroughly to determine where the
    escape was.

    Was it a simple invite error?
    We all have sent emails to the wrong person based upon autofill.
    Careless, but it does happen.

    The invite might have been, but protocols to positively verify each
    attendee didn't happen (violation), nor their need-to-know (violation). >>>>

    Was it a rogue insider leaking?

    Anything's possible when you didn't individually clear each attendee.

    Was it a security hack into someone's phone or the Signal app itself? >>>>
    Also possible, more likely at the individual phone level. Despite how >>>> Signal likes to brag that it is encrypted, the devices its on aren't,
    which is probably part of the reason why it isn't an authorized App for >>>> secure devices ... recent DoD guidance allows Signal for some very minor >>>> things, but it is not authorized even for just the FOUO/CUI level, let >>>> alone S / TC / SCI stuff.

    <https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-signal-vulnerability>

    Another threat vector is that everyone was outside of a SCIF, so their >>>> cellular tower signals were at risk of interception...and for those who >>>> were OCONUS, like 100% odds...and encryption can be broken by various
    means today by State actors: not only huge AI farms, but this is also >>>> why the US is concerned of foreign advancements in quantum computing:
    quantum is many orders of magnitude faster than brute force.

    I will not speculate at this point but the latest information from the WH admits
    sensitive data was shared but not secret data which emails were sent to secure
    mailboxes.

    Problem is that Signal's not even authorized for use for sensitive, so >>>> all that this announcement is doing is *trying* to protect Pete & the
    others from straight-up criminal charges over classified spillage...and >>>> yes, the details that were listed were operational & always classified >>>> in advance.

    <https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-signal-app-vulnerabilities-before-houthi-strike-chat/>


    As for the reporter and The Atlantic, both are Trump/conservative hating so
    I have to wonder why a conservative, or other MSM liberal reporter was given
    access to the call but instead one of the most rabid haters on the planet was.

    Seems a little too coincidental to me.

    Use of Signal to violate the Presidential Records Act is reportedly
    listed in the Project 2025 playbook. This breach is indicative of it
    being extensively used as a method to violate the law on document
    retention, as it was set with a "one week" auto-expire.


    Let's see how it plays out but for now Trump owns it.

    He certainly does own it ..

    .. and I read last night a short paragraph from a military SME who
    pointed out the key datapoints within the Signal discussion which very >>>> reasonably could have been used within the timeframe allowed to not only >>>> protect their own people (which may have been a war crime BTW), but
    harden air defenses against the F/A-18s (higher risk for our pilots) but >>>> it also disclosed the region that our Aircraft Carrier battle fleet was, >>>> which could have come under attack as well: the "what's the worst that >>>> could happen?" scenario is that we could have lost an entire Carrier in >>>> addition to whatever aircraft.

    We got lucky a couple of ways this time that nothing bad happened, but >>>> we've also revealed vulnerability vectors that won't be overlooked next >>>> time by opponents. This is why this shit is taken seriously by real
    adults: "Loose Lips Sink Ships".


    -hh

    Good post.
    I confess I know nothing about Signal and in fact had never heard of it before
    recently.
    I know that What's App is forbidden by most large corporations due to security
    concerns.

    I'm interested to see how this one plays out and at this point nothing will >>> surprise me.

    The reporter needs be charged. It most certainly can't be legal to
    publish official governent conversations. He can't hide behind the
    usual "sources" nonsense because he himself is the source.

    Legal precedent was from the Pentagon Papers.

    From a post I made yesterday:


    "...the [SCOTUS] majority simply voted for a brief per curiam opinion
    stating that the government had failed to meet the “heavy burden” of
    proof required for prior restraints, accompanied by separate opinions by
    each of the nine justices."

    <https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/pentagon-papers/>

    And "prior restraints" is hyperlinked to here:

    <https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/prior-restraint/>

    Which states:

    [quote]
    Pentagon Papers case affirms “no prior restraint” and free press role in democracy
    Although Near v. Minnesota reaffirmed that governmental censorship of
    media publications is unconstitutional, the ruling still left questions.

    For instance, did the First Amendment apply to situations in which a
    newspaper or magazine publication could potentially threaten national
    security by divulging sensitive military information? This became an
    issue of concern after secret government documents began appearing in
    the New York Times in June of 1971, and later in the Washington Post.

    Known as the Pentagon Papers, these documents, which contained
    classified and top secret information related to American policies and activities in the ongoing Vietnam War, were copied from the State
    Department and Department of Defense by Daniel Ellsberg.

    The federal government responded immediately by filing a legal suit
    against the two newspapers, citing national security as the primary
    reason for preventing publication of the material. The New York Times
    contended this violated its First Amendment rights.

    In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled in New York Times Co. v.
    United States (1971) that despite the sensitive nature of the
    information, the newspapers could still publish it under the no prior
    restraint doctrine. Free expression outweighed the potential harm that
    could have resulted from publishing the story. The decision reinforced
    the media’s role, under the First Amendment, to serve as a watchdog and publish information, even critical or embarrassing reports about
    government officials and their actions.
    [/quote]

    TL;DR: that the Atlantic preemptively held the story until after the
    airstrike removes the Government's basis to have it censored.


    It's going to get interesting for sure.
    The left wing media are foaming at the mouth of this one but the average person
    doesn't really give a hoot.

    Well, the average person isn't familiar with security protocols to
    understand just how big of a deal this is. Those who do know can
    remember in their mandatory training things like how any VIP site visit
    has classified/controlled info on dates/times, general itinerary, etc.

    Case in point, ass I said earlier in one of these threads, the
    information that was disclosed ~2hrs prior was sufficient for a hostile
    state actor to respond in at least three ways:

    a) protect their own high value individuals
    b) alert air defense to quite narrow time windows
    c) opportunity to launch an attack on a US carrier at a known fixed location


    It happened. Fix it so it never happens again and
    move on.

    True, and the remedy here is to shitcan all of those who so grossly
    failed to follow OPSEC & prosecute accordingly. This includes the
    security goof on attenders, but also all participants who disseminated information to individuals who clearly didn't have a "Need to Know", and
    also those who didn't have N2K but nevertheless chose to not disengage.


    -hh

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  • From J Carlson@21:1/5 to NoBody on Fri Mar 28 08:34:48 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 3/28/2025 4:04 AM, NoBody wrote:
    On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:00:59 -0000 (UTC), pothead
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 2025-03-27, -hh <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 3/26/25 18:52, pothead wrote:
    On 2025-03-26, -hh <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 3/26/25 07:32, NoBody wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:35:43 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K. >>>>>> Sherman) wrote:

    ...
    <https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5212589-warner-hegseth-waltz-intel-group-chat/>

    --bks

    They're DUI hires.

    I love that you take the word of a reporter from the Atlantic that >>>>>> there were any plans discussed in the chat.


    Unfortunately for such spin attempts ... Goldman/Atlantic has receipts. >>>>>

    Which is why multiple government sources have already confirmed key
    elements of the story. Its already pretty damn airtight.

    Plus a Catch-22 dilemma that the Administration has is that if they now >>>>> try to claim that the Signal thread was a nothingburger because nothing >>>>> was classified (which is BS, but let's continue), then they have zero >>>>> legal basis to then try to go after the Atlantic.

    Plus as of last week, the Signal App was specifically not allowed to be >>>>> installed on Gov't secure devices, so it begs the question of how did >>>>> "Sometimes Sober" Pete copy/paste the strike data over to the chat?

    The prisoner's dilemma: either knowingly passed data from secured (high >>>>> side) device to unsecured (low side) device -or- had spillage from
    having/allowing a prohibited App be installed onto a secure Gov device. >>>>> Both are equally bad from a criminal culpability standpoint, because >>>>> ignorance of the law isn't an excuse.

    And finally...the Atlantic already has the receipts that show that the >>>>> Signal App had been configured for a one week auto-delete, which means >>>>> if/when it goes missing, they've violated Federal document retention >>>>> laws. This law applies regardless of classification status.


    -hh

    Personally, this needs to be investigated thouroughly to determine where the
    escape was.

    Was it a simple invite error?
    We all have sent emails to the wrong person based upon autofill.
    Careless, but it does happen.

    The invite might have been, but protocols to positively verify each
    attendee didn't happen (violation), nor their need-to-know (violation).


    Was it a rogue insider leaking?

    Anything's possible when you didn't individually clear each attendee.

    Was it a security hack into someone's phone or the Signal app itself?

    Also possible, more likely at the individual phone level. Despite how
    Signal likes to brag that it is encrypted, the devices its on aren't,
    which is probably part of the reason why it isn't an authorized App for
    secure devices ... recent DoD guidance allows Signal for some very minor >>> things, but it is not authorized even for just the FOUO/CUI level, let
    alone S / TC / SCI stuff.

    <https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-signal-vulnerability>

    Another threat vector is that everyone was outside of a SCIF, so their
    cellular tower signals were at risk of interception...and for those who
    were OCONUS, like 100% odds...and encryption can be broken by various
    means today by State actors: not only huge AI farms, but this is also
    why the US is concerned of foreign advancements in quantum computing:
    quantum is many orders of magnitude faster than brute force.

    I will not speculate at this point but the latest information from the WH admits
    sensitive data was shared but not secret data which emails were sent to secure
    mailboxes.

    Problem is that Signal's not even authorized for use for sensitive, so
    all that this announcement is doing is *trying* to protect Pete & the
    others from straight-up criminal charges over classified spillage...and
    yes, the details that were listed were operational & always classified
    in advance.

    <https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-signal-app-vulnerabilities-before-houthi-strike-chat/>


    As for the reporter and The Atlantic, both are Trump/conservative hating so
    I have to wonder why a conservative, or other MSM liberal reporter was given
    access to the call but instead one of the most rabid haters on the planet was.

    Seems a little too coincidental to me.

    Use of Signal to violate the Presidential Records Act is reportedly
    listed in the Project 2025 playbook. This breach is indicative of it
    being extensively used as a method to violate the law on document
    retention, as it was set with a "one week" auto-expire.


    Let's see how it plays out but for now Trump owns it.

    He certainly does own it ..

    .. and I read last night a short paragraph from a military SME who
    pointed out the key datapoints within the Signal discussion which very
    reasonably could have been used within the timeframe allowed to not only >>> protect their own people (which may have been a war crime BTW), but
    harden air defenses against the F/A-18s (higher risk for our pilots) but >>> it also disclosed the region that our Aircraft Carrier battle fleet was, >>> which could have come under attack as well: the "what's the worst that
    could happen?" scenario is that we could have lost an entire Carrier in
    addition to whatever aircraft.

    We got lucky a couple of ways this time that nothing bad happened, but
    we've also revealed vulnerability vectors that won't be overlooked next
    time by opponents. This is why this shit is taken seriously by real
    adults: "Loose Lips Sink Ships".


    -hh

    Good post.
    I confess I know nothing about Signal and in fact had never heard of it before
    recently.
    I know that What's App is forbidden by most large corporations due to security
    concerns.

    I'm interested to see how this one plays out and at this point nothing will >> surprise me.

    The reporter needs be charged.

    He won't be charged with anything.

    It most certainly can't be legal to publish official governent [sic] conversations.

    It is legal. The only thing that would have been illegal is if Goldberg violated
    the law in order to obtain the texts. He didn't.

    He can't hide behind the usual "sources" nonsense because he himself is the source.

    Bullshit. Hegseth (the drunk), Gabbard, Vance, Ratcliffe et al. are the sources.

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to Sherman on Wed Apr 2 07:37:39 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 19:42:54 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get. >>>>>>>>>>>> | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots, >>>>>>>>>>>> | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    FFS, he's the *National Security Adviser*:
    |
    | 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.
    | ...
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/01/waltz-national-security-council-signal-gmail/>

    --bks


    "Officials say..."

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Wed Apr 2 12:38:25 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get. >>>>>>>>>>>>> | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots, >>>>>>>>>>>>> | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    | Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications,
    | officials say

    |
    | NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before
    | Houthi strike chat
    | ... <https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-signal-app-vulnerabilities-before-houthi-strike-chat/>

    |
    | The Leaked Signal Chat, Annotated
    | ... <https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/25/us/signal-group-chat-text-annotations.html>

    --bks

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to Sherman on Thu Apr 3 07:17:08 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 12:38:25 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | My high-level takeaway is "what you see is what you get. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> | These guys might look like idiots, and talk like idiots, >>>>>>>>>>>>>> | but don't let that fool you: they really are idiots.

    | Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications,
    | officials say

    |
    | NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before
    | Houthi strike chat
    | ...
    <https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-signal-app-vulnerabilities-before-houthi-strike-chat/>

    |
    | The Leaked Signal Chat, Annotated
    | ...
    <https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/25/us/signal-group-chat-text-annotations.html>

    --bks

    And Bradley tries to wring every last drop out of this dead story.

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  • From Gronk@21:1/5 to Governor Swill on Wed Apr 9 00:01:00 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    Governor Swill wrote:
    On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 19:48:13 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:
    DUI hires:
    |
    | Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for
    | crises across the world
    |
    | It's a more extensive use of the app than previously
    | reported and sheds new light on how commonly the Trump
    | administration's national security team relies on Signal.
    | ...
    <https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/waltzs-team-set-up-at-least-20-signal-group-chats-for-crises-across-the-world-00266845>

    <facepalm>

    So what were all the trillions spent on communication systems and
    networks since, oh, I don't know, the first decoder ring?

    be. sure. to. drink. your. ovaltine.

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  • From pothead@21:1/5 to Gronk on Wed Apr 9 13:01:10 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 2025-04-09, Gronk <[email protected]d> wrote:
    Governor Swill wrote:
    On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 19:48:13 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:
    DUI hires:
    |
    | Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for
    | crises across the world
    |
    | It's a more extensive use of the app than previously
    | reported and sheds new light on how commonly the Trump
    | administration's national security team relies on Signal.
    | ...
    <https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/02/waltzs-team-set-up-at-least-20-signal-group-chats-for-crises-across-the-world-00266845>

    <facepalm>

    So what were all the trillions spent on communication systems and
    networks since, oh, I don't know, the first decoder ring?

    be. sure. to. drink. your. ovaltine.


    ROTFLMAO!
    Good one.



    --
    pothead
    Liberalism Is A Mental Disease
    Treat it accordingly <https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14512427/Doctors-reveal-symptoms-Trump-Derangement-Syndrome-tell-youve-got-it.html>

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 25 12:41:50 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | Trump confirms National Security Council firings as Waltz's
    | Signal chat woes snowball

    |
    | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's personal phone number, the
    | one used in a recent Signal chat, was easily accessible on
    | the internet and public apps as recently as March,
    | potentially exposing national security secrets to foreign
    | adversaries.
    | ... <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/pete-hegseth-phone-signal.html>

    |
    | Inside the Fiasco at the National Security Council
    |
    | Firings and leadership challenges have destabilized an
    | institution that has little margin for error.
    | ... <https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/national-security-council-fiasco/682595/>

    --bks

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to Sherman on Sat Apr 26 08:58:38 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:41:50 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Trump confirms National Security Council firings as Waltz's
    | Signal chat woes snowball

    |
    | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's personal phone number, the
    | one used in a recent Signal chat, was easily accessible on
    | the internet and public apps as recently as March,
    | potentially exposing national security secrets to foreign
    | adversaries.
    | ...
    <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/pete-hegseth-phone-signal.html>

    |
    | Inside the Fiasco at the National Security Council
    |
    | Firings and leadership challenges have destabilized an
    | institution that has little margin for error.
    | ...
    <https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/national-security-council-fiasco/682595/>

    --bks

    The leakers are being found and removed. Sounds like a success story
    to me (your "sources say" nonense not withstanding).

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  • From Siri Cruz@21:1/5 to NoBody on Sat Apr 26 09:26:57 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On 26/4/25 5:58, NoBody wrote:
    On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:41:50 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Trump confirms National Security Council firings as Waltz's
    | Signal chat woes snowball

    |
    | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's personal phone number, the
    | one used in a recent Signal chat, was easily accessible on
    | the internet and public apps as recently as March,
    | potentially exposing national security secrets to foreign
    | adversaries.
    | ...
    <https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/pete-hegseth-phone-signal.html>

    |
    | Inside the Fiasco at the National Security Council
    |
    | Firings and leadership challenges have destabilized an
    | institution that has little margin for error.
    | ...
    <https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/national-security-council-fiasco/682595/>

    --bks

    The leakers are being found and removed. Sounds like a success story
    to me (your "sources say" nonense not withstanding).


    You need to upgrade your interocitor.

    --
    Siri Seal of Disavowal #000-999. Disavowed. Denied. @
    'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' /|\
    The Church of the Holey Apple .signature 4.0 / \
    of Discordian Mysteries. This post insults Islam. Mohamed

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to NoBody on Sun Apr 27 09:06:02 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 08:58:38 -0400, NoBody <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:41:50 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Trump confirms National Security Council firings as Waltz's
    | Signal chat woes snowball

    |
    | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's personal phone number, the
    | one used in a recent Signal chat, was easily accessible on
    | the internet and public apps as recently as March,
    | potentially exposing national security secrets to foreign
    | adversaries.
    | ... >><https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/us/politics/pete-hegseth-phone-signal.html>

    |
    | Inside the Fiasco at the National Security Council
    |
    | Firings and leadership challenges have destabilized an
    | institution that has little margin for error.
    | ... >><https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/national-security-council-fiasco/682595/>

    --bks

    The leakers are being found and removed. Sounds like a success story
    to me (your "sources say" nonense not withstanding).

    And Bradley runs away.

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Thu May 1 16:44:54 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | Trump confirms National Security Council firings as Waltz's
    | Signal chat woes snowball

    | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's personal phone number, the
    | one used in a recent Signal chat, was easily accessible on
    | the internet and public apps as recently as March,
    | potentially exposing national security secrets to foreign
    | adversaries.

    | Inside the Fiasco at the National Security Council
    |
    | Firings and leadership challenges have destabilized an
    | institution that has little margin for error.

    |
    | Trump to Oust National Security Adviser Mike Waltz
    |
    | The decision came after Waltz placed a reporter on a
    | sensitive Signal chat about bombing the Houthis in Yemen
    | ... <https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-oust-national-security-adviser-mike-waltz-766873b1>

    --bks

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  • From Gronk@21:1/5 to Siri Cruz on Thu May 1 23:19:27 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    Siri Cruz wrote:


    You need to upgrade your interocitor.


    Had to look that up ;)

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 2 11:01:37 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | Trump confirms National Security Council firings as Waltz's
    | Signal chat woes snowball

    | Trump to Oust National Security Adviser Mike Waltz

    |
    | Donald Trump's ousted National Security Adviser Mike Waltz
    | faces fresh controversy after being spotted using Signal on
    | his cell phone during a cabinet meeting.
    |
    | Waltz was photographed using the messaging app a day before
    | he was replaced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and,
    | instead, tapped as the U.S. ambassador to the United
    | Nations.
    | ... <https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-live-updates-today-mike-waltz-tariffs-b2743636.html>

    --bks

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 5 11:55:10 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | Trump confirms National Security Council firings as Waltz's
    | Signal chat woes snowball

    | Trump to Oust National Security Adviser Mike Waltz

    | Donald Trump's ousted National Security Adviser Mike Waltz
    | faces fresh controversy after being spotted using Signal on
    | his cell phone during a cabinet meeting.

    |
    | The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked
    | ... <https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/>

    --bks

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 5 22:12:06 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | Trump confirms National Security Council firings as Waltz's
    | Signal chat woes snowball

    | Trump to Oust National Security Adviser Mike Waltz

    | Donald Trump's ousted National Security Adviser Mike Waltz
    | faces fresh controversy after being spotted using Signal on
    | his cell phone during a cabinet meeting.

    | The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

    |
    | Hegseth Used Multiple Signal Chats for Official Pentagon
    | Business
    |
    | In at least one message, he asked aides to tell foreign
    | countries about a military operation
    | ... <https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pete-hegseth-signal-chats-defense-department-pentagon-ec9a4daa>

    --bks

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 7 12:25:46 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | Trump confirms National Security Council firings as Waltz's >>>>>>>>> | Signal chat woes snowball

    | Trump to Oust National Security Adviser Mike Waltz

    | The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

    | Hegseth Used Multiple Signal Chats for Official Pentagon
    | Business

    DUI hire "Whiskey Pete" is going down:
    |
    | The Defense Department inspector general's office is
    | examining whether it was Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth or
    | an aide, perhaps acting at his behest, who used Hegseth's
    | account on the unclassified chat application Signal to
    | divulge detailed information about forthcoming air attacks
    | on Yemen, according to people familiar with the Pentagon
    | watchdog's work and communications reviewed by The
    | Washington Post.
    | ... <https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/06/hegseth-signalgate-inspector-general/>

    --bks

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  • From Blue Lives Matter@21:1/5 to Bradley K. Sherman on Sat Jun 7 13:03:04 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    Bradley K. Sherman wrote:

    |
    | THE LAST WALTZ? Questions are swirling this morning about
    | the future of national security adviser Mike Waltz over his
    | role in what is surely -- hands-down -- one of the dumbest
    | security breaches of recent times. Waltz has yet to comment
    | publicly on The Atlantic's jaw-dropping revelation that he
    | set up an unsecured Signal chat group to discuss military
    | battle plans with Cabinet colleagues -- and then
    | accidentally invited Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey
    | Goldberg to join. POLITICO's Dasha Burns, Rachael Bade and
    | Eli Stokols revealed last night that multiple conversations
    | are now underway among White House officials over whether
    | Waltz should be forced to resign. All eyes are on the
    | commander-in-chief for a final decision.
    |
    | What's on Trump's mind? Ominously for Waltz, there has been
    | no message of support thus far from the president, who
    | instead spent last night posting videos on Truth Social
    | about his own achievements. In fact, Trump -- normally a
    | vocal armchair pundit -- has not commented at all on the
    | story, beyond a few initial boilerplate attacks on The
    | Atlantic. All the signs are he's mulling his options.
    |
    | Because let's be clear ... This is damaging stuff for the
    | Trump administration. As a story, Signalgate is more than
    | just a serious breach of national security. It's colorful,
    | it's visual, it's easy to understand and it raises the most
    | dangerous charge of all for any government -- one of rank
    | incompetence. (They discussed military secrets in a group
    | chat? They accidentally invited a journalist to join the
    | group, and didn't notice? These guys are running the
    | country?) Yeah, it's a bad one.
    | ...
    <https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/03/25/signalgate-00246 >894>

    --bks


    If Hegseth doesn't keep our enemies informed, who will?

    Trump could do it but nobody believes anything he says.

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to Sherman on Sat Jun 7 10:00:20 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Sat, 7 Jun 2025 12:25:46 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Trump confirms National Security Council firings as Waltz's >>>>>>>>>> | Signal chat woes snowball

    | Trump to Oust National Security Adviser Mike Waltz

    | The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

    | Hegseth Used Multiple Signal Chats for Official Pentagon
    | Business

    DUI hire "Whiskey Pete" is going down:
    |
    | The Defense Department inspector general's office is
    | examining whether it was Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth or
    | an aide, perhaps acting at his behest, who used Hegseth's
    | account on the unclassified chat application Signal to
    | divulge detailed information about forthcoming air attacks
    | on Yemen, according to people familiar with the Pentagon
    | watchdog's work and communications reviewed by The
    | Washington Post.
    | ...
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/06/hegseth-signalgate-inspector-general/>

    --bks

    Trying to wring every last byte out of this non story I see.

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  • From Bradley K. Sherman@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 23 19:16:30 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    | Trump confirms National Security Council firings as Waltz's >>>>>>>>>>> | Signal chat woes snowball

    | Trump to Oust National Security Adviser Mike Waltz

    | The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

    |
    | Hegseth Signal messages came from email classified
    | 'SECRET,' watchdog told
    |
    | The revelation contradicts the Trump administration's
    | longstanding claims that no classified information was
    | shared by the defense secretary's account during the
    | "Signalgate" scandal.
    | ... <https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/23/hegseth-signalgate-classified-secret/>

    --bks

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  • From NoBody@21:1/5 to Sherman on Thu Jul 24 07:15:26 2025
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics

    On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:16:30 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Bradley K.
    Sherman) wrote:

    | Trump confirms National Security Council firings as Waltz's >>>>>>>>>>>> | Signal chat woes snowball

    | Trump to Oust National Security Adviser Mike Waltz

    | The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

    |
    | Hegseth Signal messages came from email classified
    | 'SECRET,' watchdog told
    |
    | The revelation contradicts the Trump administration's
    | longstanding claims that no classified information was
    | shared by the defense secretary's account during the
    | "Signalgate" scandal.
    | ...
    <https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/23/hegseth-signalgate-classified-secret/>

    --bks

    Signal-what?

    Says a "source".

    Laughter!

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