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

But Her Emails · 2025-03-24T13:29:03-04:00

This is a scandal that has no precedent. So of course the mods try to delete it. "I had very strong doubts that this text group was real, because I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans. I also could not believe that the national security adviser to the president would be so reckless as to include the editor in chief of The Atlantic in such discussions with senior U.S. officials, up to and including the vice president.It was the next morning, Saturday, March 15, when this story became truly bizarre. At 11:44 a.m., the account labeled “Pete Hegseth” posted in Signal a “TEAM UPDATE.” I will not quote from this update, or from certain other subsequent texts. The information contained in them, if they had been read by an adversary of the United States, could conceivably have been used to harm American military and intelligence personnel, particularly in the broader Middle East, Central Command’s area of responsibility. What I will say, in order to illustrate the shocking recklessness of this Signal conversation, is that the Hegseth post contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing... The Signal chat group, I concluded, was almost certainly real. Having come to this realization, one that seemed nearly impossible only hours before, I removed myself from the Signal group, understanding that this would trigger an automatic notification to the group’s creator, “Michael Waltz,” that I had left. No one in the chat had seemed to notice that I was there. And I received no subsequent questions about why I left—or, more to the point, who I was... I have never seen a breach quite like this. It is not uncommon for national-security officials to communicate on Signal. But the app is used primarily for meeting planning and other logistical matters—not for detailed and highly confidential discussions of a pending military action. And, of course, I’ve never heard of an instance in which a journalist has been invited to such a discussion. Conceivably, Waltz, by coordinating a national-security-related action over Signal, may have violated several provisions of the Espionage Act, which governs the handling of “national defense” information, according to several national-security lawyers interviewed by my colleague Shane Harris for this story. Harris asked them to consider a hypothetical scenario in which a senior U.S. official creates a Signal thread for the express purpose of sharing information with Cabinet officials about an active military operation. He did not show them the actual Signal messages or tell them specifically what had occurred. All of these lawyers said that a U.S. official should not establish a Signal thread in the first place. Information about an active operation would presumably fit the law’s definition of “national defense” information. The Signal app is not approved by the government for sharing classified information. The government has its own systems for that purpose." https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

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1 year ago 03/31/2025 9:15am EDT

re: Jeff Wigand

Jeff Wigand wrote:
Link:www.yahoo.com/news/jd-vance-other-offi...
Keeping his job because to fire him would be to give a win to the Democrats and liberal media. Makes total sense.
At least now his cabinet knows that there is no f-ck up big enough that would cost them their job.

Pete Hegseth in 2016: "If it was anyone other than Hillary Clinton, they would be in jail right now for what has been done. Because the assumption is, in the intelligence community, if you are using unclassified means, there is the potential for, and likelihood, that foreign governments are targeting those accounts and gathering intelligence from them."

I tried to get an update about this sh*tshow on foxnews, but there's no mention of it on the first few pages.

1 year ago 03/31/2025 9:51am EDT

re: Shoko Asahara

1 year ago 03/31/2025 12:22pm EDT

re: Eddylivs

Eddylivs wrote:
Armstronglivs wrote:
You seem determined prove how vile Trumpers like you are. You're a "clump of cells". You deserve the same fate.
The two of you are the two most repulsive posters on LRC. You deserve the same fate.

Since we hold diametrically opposing views it doesn't leave an alternative place of virtue for you to inhabit. Only in your own mind.

1 year ago 03/31/2025 12:28pm EDT

re: this is it

theguardian.com

More Republican voters think Pete Hegseth should resign, poll finds

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/oliver-milman

Total of 38% of Republican voters agreeHegseth should quit, compared to just a third who think he should keep job

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1 year ago 03/31/2025 12:34pm EDT

re: this is it

this is it wrote:
Link:www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/3...

What about the morons that put him in charge in the first place?

1 year ago 03/31/2025 12:45pm EDT

re: Idiots all the way up and down

Idiots all the way up and down wrote:
this is it wrote:
Link:www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/3...
What about the morons that put him in charge in the first place?

The cultists will never turn on their lord and master, so they need a steady supply of scapegoats to blame for all his screwups.

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