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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

By Jeffrey Goldberg

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[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 points 6 days ago

Is it a coincidence that the person who wrote press release announcing Mike Waltz's nomination is called Richard Goldberg, that he worked in previous Trump's administration and is an expert on Iran/Houti? Did Waltz add Jeffrey Goldberg totally by accident or did he simply confuse the contacts?

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

This is a government that tries to avoid accountability like the devil the holy water.

Trump is known to have violated the Presidential Records Act of 1978 numerous times, stating statesman-ish reasons like "I don't care". There is no reason that this got any better. More likely has he outsourced communications to other platforms, too, if only to avoid the PRA.

Musk thinks that whatever he does with DOGE is not subject to the FOIA in any way.

Michael Waltz, JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, and others use Signal instead of official, secure, and archieved messaging systems. Signal deletes such chats after a certain time, leaving no records for courts, Congress, and the archives that one day will open past reasonings for historic analysis.

So, what do they have to hide that they act like drug lords?

[-] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

Read the update on the Atlantic! Full texts and those on the chat are now available! So much more bullshit is in there and they are caught red handed of lying.

[-] Sirus@lemm.ee 157 points 1 week ago

Didn't they try to charge Hilary Clinton for using an insecure private server?

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 76 points 1 week ago

This would matter if Republicans and their voters gave a shit about being hypocrites. That is not a new thing. Newt Gingrich went after Clinton for having an affair while he himself was having one for instance.

[-] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 37 points 1 week ago

Gingrich was worse. His wife at the time had cancer and he served her divorce papers while in the hospital and then left her and their child pennyless.

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[-] NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago

Didn’t they tank her presidential bid on this? How she was unprofessional and unfit for office for this? And his Perfect Ukraine Call, his hacked emails, his every other lapse of OPSEC or security clearance issues… weren’t disqualifying? Or was it just what she had in her pants, same with Kamala.

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[-] FundMECFSResearch 128 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

[This article reads like satire]

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week ago

The one with Big Bird is backwards. I feel like the reporter was the only adult in the room.

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[-] bingBingBongBong@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

These are golden, absolutely brilliant

[-] frezik@midwest.social 71 points 1 week ago

Fascists are surprisingly bad at war.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 week ago

They're bad at lots of things. Stupidity is a highly transferable skill.

[-] liverbe@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

#1 thing they are bad at: running a government. Kinda hard to when you don't actually believe in it. 🤷‍♀️

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fascism is literally all about doing what's best for the IN Crowd, in other words Cronyism, the very opposite of Merit.

If your selection criteria for people supposed to manage anything is who is mates with whom, what's their skin color, what's their gender and what's their sexual orientation, rather than, you know, managerial qualities, it's only natural that they suck at managing things.

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago

Just a reminder that they chose to use Signal for a reason, and those are also reasons we normal citizens should use Signal too! At least try and talk your closest relatives into dumping WhatsApp for it.

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, this article was truly a fascinating read! The one thing that surprised me from Goldberg though, was that he continually questioned their use of signal. I mean, why wouldn't they use it?

They could try to develop their own secure messaging app, but what would be the point of that when another already exists and they can verify the code is air tight because it's open source. And, developing their own app would mean the possibility of relying on software that could contain unknown bugs or vulnerabilities.

The only safe cryptographic systems are open source ones.

[-] jmore@lemm.ee 29 points 1 week ago

Because they did so to avoid official channels which get log and recorded. And yes, the Pentagon has their own apps, what do you think? Yes, using signal is INSANE

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[-] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

Your logic is valid for a small business - yes a SME doesn’t need to create their own messaging app, but this is the US government, they have the resources and need for their own. Further, commercial products controlled by outsiders can be compromised, and for state level targets it’s an issue to not control the communication through its whole journey.

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[-] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago
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[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 week ago
[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

Pete Hegseth is smart enough to use Signal, but not enough to not add Jack Daniels to the group chat.

[-] FundMECFSResearch 19 points 1 week ago

I mean, signal literally has the same UI as whatsapp. My 87 year old grandma somewhat manages to use whatsapp.

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[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

“Powerful start”?

Of course.

This - the abhorrent security alone - should be like, 24/7 on every channel invasion of Iraq TV, but no.

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[-] Archer@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

The Trump administration is so close to making the greatest post of all time on the War Thunder forums

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[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

Even my work has better OPSEC on a random stupid meeting with nothing interesting. They review every attendee to make sure no one unexpected is in the chat.

[-] faberyayo@lemm.ee 30 points 1 week ago

You actually can't make this shit up. WTF!

[-] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

I wonder if there's a Simpson's episode on this or even an Onion article.

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[-] plasmadrone@lemm.ee 27 points 1 week ago

Post is constantly being deleted on Reddit. What is going on?

[-] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 35 points 1 week ago

Yeah. Both on r/worldnews and r/europe. Not in smaller national subreddits though, where people are up in arms about the Europe comments. I don't understand why Reddit would seek to censor these leaks, as they are already disseminated across the MSM everywhere.

[-] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Social media companies just doing the bidding of their owners.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Usually it's due to many many many duplicate posts.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

They’re just cunts.

[-] Daggity@lemm.ee 23 points 1 week ago

Next week: the trump administration accidentally texted its war plans on my Minecraft server.

[-] kevowej635@lemmy.wtf 17 points 1 week ago

elect fucking russian idiots , be surprised about the results

[-] macarthur_park@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago
[-] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago

Yo what the fuck

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago
[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago

sometimes I wonder how many of these oopsies are coverups for informant leaks

[-] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Well, at least it encrypted, unlike trumps bathroom.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

I think the screenshot removed your link?

[-] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh I think it did as well. Sorry about that!

I think I fixed it

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[-] NBCooks@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Wow. Just wow.

[-] Trees@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago
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