Our national security team needs to tighten up and Trump needs to chew some ass. They should have their conferences face to face from now on. WTH!
Truthfully, both are mistakes by people who are not tech savvy.
I do agree. This is kind of indefensible. More glad it worked out and no one was put in danger because of the error. Of course I watched people for four years defend Biden’s mental health. Anything is possible.
The mistake is unimaginable, but also unsurprising given the fact that Hegseth doesn’t have the professional experience or the temperament to serve in such an important role.
Good grief. Own up to it. Respect is gone. He should be gone.
Before taking over the DOD, he was a weekend Fox host with a long history of issues with alcohol and women.
Lighten up, Francis.
That's racist.
This is what happens when you hire talk show hosts to lead the largest military in the world.
And none of the so called Dems on here would be defending her like the Trumpers are doing for their Orange Jesus
Because none of them were hired for their professional qualifications, relevant experience or proven temperament for their respective roles. Hegseth is only the most egregious example.
Waltz added the Atlantic reporter to the Signal thread, but Hegseth was the one who shared the war plan details.
They have painted themselves into a corner. Gabbard claims that nothing in the Signal thread was classified, so the Dem senators are demanding that the entire thread be released. If nothing else, the Atlantic reporter should release the parts of the thread he has not released in deference to national security concerns.
I don’t have an issue with them discussing this. For sure. I am not knowledgeable enough to know how secure or insecure what they were using to do this is. I didn’t find his logic in the text threads to be off base. I found the security leak to be ridiculous. Waltz is the one who stepped in it. He needs to own it. Try to move forward. Or be gone. I get why Pete was a question mark. Kind of hard to put all the blame on him it seems. Unless I am missing something.
Folks are missing the point. Cabinet-level group communicating and sharing top secret defense information on a commercial app they all downloaded off the App Store on their phones. It doesn't matter who made the mistake of inviting the journalist. That they're using this app at all is complete amateur hour and also ignorant of information laws. This is Hillary archiving emails in a closet in her house level of stupidity.
That was kind of the question I was asking or not sure about. I don’t know anything about the app they were using. Haven’t had the time to get into the details. If all of that is true, it is beyond dumb to have done it that way. I would think anything these guys use on their phone would be secure to the outside world other than human error. Maybe I am assuming too much, but I would think they don’t use the same phones we carry around everyday. They don’t have a family account with Verizon.
I'm actually glad is was brought to light. An egregious error that should humble the entire bunch. All need to step back, slow down and do things in a secure measured manner. Any loss of life from this error would have been enormous and Trump's Presidency would have taken a serious hit. Luckily the results were not Afghanistan withdrawal magnitude. Media can dissect for weeks and the cabinet level folks can regroup. We all need to eat humble pie sometimes, luckily this one did not result in loss of life.
The real HYPOCRITES here will be anyone who demands "justice" while giving Hilary the "nothing to see here" treatment.
Totally agree. It didn’t cause Trump to have to make up the gold star family moniker. That did nothing but piss people off. He was lucky. The more we learn about this the better. I don’t like the strategy. They aren’t going to be perfect. There will be mistakes made. Own them. That is my issue. Own them and move forward hopefully learning from your screw up.
It is hard not to look back when all of this is being discussed. All of those blind people requesting the smoking gun that Biden sold out the country. Trying to find a way not to believe his family was not on the take due to his influence. And somehow his son and brother were doing this without his knowledge. There is some world class hypocrisy in this thread.
Right direction but expand your thinking.
Very familiar with encrypted messaging apps like Signal. They're not hack-proof - China is probably monitoring these morons' phones. It doesn't disappear if a rogue third party is shadowing it.
Totally agree and I wasn’t suggesting there is a single appropriate reason for that group to be using Signal or anything similar.
Ratcliffe testified the CIA loaded the Signal app on his computer right after he was confirmed... probably did the same for all cabinet heads. Seems relevant.
This woman is such a nut job and so unqualified. The whole cabinet is
It’s almost like the people in this thread don’t watch the news. Lol.
What you are describing is precisely what happened. That’s why the whole country is shook right now.
Tom cotton may have a point, but I don’t like it when people say “it is my understanding…“ Because that means they’re not willing to stick their neck out that it’s a fact.
