Breaking: Trump Admin Accidentally Texted War Plans to Editor of Atlantic

The Director of National Inteligence testified that "NO CLASSIFIED MATERIAL WAS SHARED"...You dumbazzes don't even know what you're talking about...

Two core axioms of Trumpism.

1) We're a small oppressed minority fighting against all odds to save America.

2) We won the 2020 election and the 2024 election as a landslide.

Propaganda doesn't have to be self-consistent as long as there's a clear villain.

Did Hegseth invite his mommy to the group chat? She should go in TV to clear things up.

He may want to talk to Mike Pence about VP's who do stuff like that.

He may want to talk to Mike Pence about VP's who do stuff like that.

Don't let Winston/Adult/Eddy and the crew of hardly literate Trumpers derail the conversation here. It doesn't matter that Hillary f'ed up a decade ago. Obama's and Biden's foreign policy blunders don't matter here. It doesn't matter that Hunter Biden is an absolute mess.

None of these things have bearing on the fact that US government officials were illegally using an unsecured channel to formulate, discuss, and execute war plans. This is a massive intelligence oversight and put the lives of people in theater as well as active intelligence officers at risk. Such a system of communication has multiple points of failure that could have been (and may have been) easily exploited by bad guys. Moreover, they unwittingly added a civilian JOURNALIST to their little chat group, who easily could have continued gathering classified information and leaked it to the public or to adversaries.

Just like with Hillary's emails, the fact that these comms weren't done through official channels also means that this info couldn't be FOIA'd or audited by an internal agency or congressional committee, which is very troubling. Officials of any country, but especially a republic, should not act in official capacity without accountability or impunity.

As if they needed yet another reason to distrust the USA, this sends a message to our allies is that we cannot be trusted with sensitive intelligence. Say what you want about "America First" or wanting to go at it alone or that we're getting the short end of some proverbial stick, but the fact of the matter is that intelligence sharing with trusted nations makes America a safer place and protects our interests both at home and abroad.

The way that these officials talk about the attack itself is very troubling, too. Dozens of people were killed and injured in the missile strikes, including children and civilians, and our leaders are celebrating with emojis. It's like it's just a video game to them, not actual people's lives that they are ending or changing forever. It's ironic that Trump campaigned on "no more wars," but we're just seeing the same aggressive foreign intervention we've seen since Bush.

This is a major f up and we have no reason to believe similar or bigger f ups haven't happened with this admin already.

Knowing Trumps penchant for threats and postering, the release of that particular military data just might very well be his way of putting Yemen on the back of their heels (slower running reference) so the US can direct important elements to another region. It could also conceivably indicate a thinner military ability than they like to project to the world. Pretending to be the world's policeman is a complicated project.

If you think this forum bears even the slightest resemblance to the American electorate you're even dumber than I thought.

The non-leftists are heavily outnumbered here despite being the majority of the US population.

From Goldberg’s article:

Operational details of upcoming military operations are obviously classified.

Exactly. The Trumpanzees are only here to fling poo and say "whaddabout whaddabout." No point engaging with them.

We have a series of scandals here, as you have outlined. But the biggest scandal is one that the media won't say out loud: Nobody can be held accountable for this brazen criminality because the United States Justice Department and the FBI are no longer capable of investigating crimes committed by Republicans. It isn't allowed. King Trump says Waltz "learned his lesson" and that's that.

It’s so embarrassing that you keep getting permabanned and then making a new account.

Yeah, I was on the signal chat where the highly classified info was shared and I can confirm based on advice of legal counsel that 'no classified material was shared.'

As the director of National Intelligence I'm presumably smart and or maybe competent and definitely not a Russian asset, plus why would I make a claim just to cover up my own illegal actions? Obviously, this is a conspiracy to make us look dumb based on our own actions, I'm glad exrunnerboy can see through our incompetence and intentional circumvention of security protocol to understand the important absolution of my own claim of innocence.

It's not against the law to use Signal.

CISA recommends senior officials who handle sensitive information use encryption apps.

The problem wasn't Signal it was Waltz unknowingly inviting a journalist into the group.

Once again quoting from the article:

There are more independents these days who can sway with the wind. Many (who are now regretting it) chose Trump as they didn't like the alternative, or perhaps didn't understand what the choices were really about. Now we see what an extremist - who has put into place an unelected billionaire to have access to the powers controlling this country with no oversight - can do to undermine the country and the rule of law. The levels (with the war info debacle) of incompetence (because this is the ultimate DEI - Fealty to Trump) is taking this country down a dangerous path. The danger of an authoritarian narcissist like Trump (and his Maga cult) is the possibility of no further elections, which will result in a civil war. If you think that the number of citizens who agree to this path are on your side, then you truly are demented.

"The main thing Mike [Waltz] is definitely gonna get sh*t about is that it was The Atlantic. Man, the boss hates The Atlantic," an outside adviser told Axios, laughing.

Yes, it was.

Although I am skeptical, I will play along for a moment and assume that the DNI wasn't merely spouting rhetoric based upon information that was literally declassified by the White House within the past 48 hours, so technically they were telling the truth.

Those of us working in the government sector are trained at great length about the importance of protecting mission essential OPSEC information. At the very least, this entire scenario is a blatant OPSEC violation.