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Summary
Lawmakers from both parties expressed outrage after The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief revealed he was accidentally included in a Trump administration Signal chat discussing Yemen airstrikes.
Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.) and Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) called for investigations and firings, labeling it a serious security breach.
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) criticized the use of non-secure systems, warning that adversaries like Russia and China could exploit it.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) condemned the administration’s mishandling of classified information, saying it endangers national security.
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Everyone there should lose their security clearance and be fired for such an egregious lack of OpSec.
Beyond stupid, can you imagine how hard Putin is laughing at the 34 count felon right now?
Congress: Somebody should really do something to rein this administration in!
The horrific absurdity is that even Trump was beginning sentences with “Somebody should …” AFTER he became president.
They are too used to the conspiracy-theorist, “humble-truth-finder” mindset EVEN when they are at the top.
I think Trump may do it just for the plausible deniability it implies.
Congress: why are the democrats silent?
Marco Rubio: “Alright, everybody, line up and get ready for the shooting of our own feet.”
McConnell: “Aren’t you guys going to do something about all this?”
Dems: “Like what? Go on tour?”
Dems: “Like what? Go on tour?”
Dems: “Our job is to convince American citizens that that Israel is a cool guy!”
Schumer’s just a cranky old man who still thinks bipartisanship is on the table.
Lots of petitions asking for him to resign as minority leader, and he’s so universally hated rn that he cancelled his book tour.
Democrats…“Why I oughta…If I only…boy oh boy are you ever…sigh”.
The only person in real danger here is the journalist.
And the yemenis but they’ve got the wrong skin tone for anybody to even mention. Genocide is completely normalized.
That’s bad and all, but: They are using Signal?!
Yes, what of it? Technically signal is fine from a security/leakage angle. Obviously not from a “govt communications” / public records angle, but there neither is direct verbal comms.
Presumably to get around FOIA requests?
With a journalist in the group there’s no need for FOI requests. Think of the money saved!
It practically pays for itself!
“SIPRnet? What’s that?”
Any republican party member who stands up for this will be threatened with having their seat put up to a primary challenge. This is just a fact.
Remember, whatever the administration says can only be interpreted by fact by anyone who is part of the party. If you aren’t in line you aren’t in the party.
The undesirables will be shipped off to a camp far from the public’s eye and shaven, beaten and humiliated.
They’ve got nearly four more years left to completely screw something up.
They keep messing with things eventually they’ll cause catastrophe
The really sad thing is that in this scenario only Republicans matter. As long as they keep treating Trump as some kind of god-emperor, nothing will happen.
I was going to say “treating him as a king”, but England and Canada have kings and would never put up with this kind of shit from a king. England hasn’t put up with kings acting this way since the Magna Carta was signed.
God-Emperor is literally what they called him on r/thedonald
That’s literally what his base thinks he is, they don’t think he’s godly they think he’s ordained by God because Jerry Falwell endorsed him but that only happened because Cohen blackmailed him.
I might be wrong, but I recall the thedonald being pretty much a joke sub until it was hijacked by nazis and maggats.
I don’t remember that. I never remember them being anything but poisonous.
They were always trying to “joke” their way into the front page, but their intention was always to crowd out opposing opinions.
Bad actors always use “free speech” and “tolerance” against their opponents to gain a foothold, and then use that foothold to leverage a pogrom.
Over and over again.
But that was just a joke hurr durr
No heads will roll. What most stories miss is that the main reason they didn’t use official channels for this (and most likely many of their other conversations as well) is that they don’t want to comply with the Federal Records Act. They don’t want there to be a record of a lot of the shit they’re saying and doing and plan to do.
This was literally in the instructional videos that Heritage made for new Trump staffers under Project2025. To do as little as possible that complies with the Federal Records Act. This is that video.
Yeah, I know why the guy came clean, but it would have been so much more useful if we stayed on the chat. Really a big missed opportunity.
OTOH he did stay on it as long as he could while still being able to protect himself by saying he didn’t think it could be real and most likely a scam or attempt to entrap, plus the thread was basically over by then anyway.
Yep. If he stayed on the chat too long he would have been arrested for espionage and imprisoned for life.
The trump regime’s gross incompetence put him in a dangerous position.
Meanwhile, I suspect that someone on the inside quietly looped the journalist into the group as a way to expose what’s been going on. If so, that person is in grave danger.
Trump and his regime’s cabinet are truly evil and rotten to their core.
Lawmakers from bOtH pArTiEs
Reminder that Don Bacon barely won NE-2, a purple district that went for Harris, and shouldn’t be used as an example when citing Congressional Republican outrage, because they’re not actually outraged.
I’m shocked that the administration of “Put the big boxes of top secret docs under the bathroom chandelier” would mishandle secret war plans.
“House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) offered more of a defensive response, arguing that the administration “has acknowledged it was a mistake.”” THEY LITERALLY DIDN’T. You have one of the guys from the chats saying ‘look how insightful this chat is we demonstrated impeccable leadership and no one was hurt (because the journalist was legit and didn’t offer the info to America’s enemies’
Remember in 2016 when the entire magat crowd screamed that Hillary should be locked up for using a private, secure server that was only accessible to authorized individuals?
Surely they won’t be hypocrites and try to brush this under the rug, or worse try to blame the editor-in-chief who had no desire to get wrapped up in this.
