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Outrage after White House accidentally texts journalist war plans: ‘Huge screw-up’
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You’d think the guy famous for cheating on his wife would be better at double checking who’s being added to a groupchat….. 
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It’s almost like when you hire incompetent jack offs, you don’t get the best results from them.
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Imagine a Houthi Missile Officer reading the post and thinking ‘wtf, is this a joke?’
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I wonder how long before trump is publicly ripping hegseth to shreds like he does with every incompetent “best people” he has placed in positions of powerIt’s almost like when you hire incompetent jack offs, you don’t get the best results from them.
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That may be the only thing that saves us from this administration……..everyone thinking WTF is this a joke for virtually everything
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I thought that ‘with extreme prejudice’ the moment he officially announced his candidacy.
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Hon I was gobsmacked the American people were ignorant enough to actually re-elect that ass clown….i mean seriously
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‘We don’t need no education’Hon I was gobsmacked the American people were ignorant enough to actually re-elect that ass clown….i mean seriously
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He said it himself he does love the morons…..after all they’re the only ones supporting him
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He tells it like it is!He said it himself he does love the morons…..after all they’re the only ones supporting him
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I don’t want to hear “but her emails” ever again.
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'Fired on the spot': How Trump officials caught leaking war plans reacted to Clinton emails
Several high-profile officials in President Donald Trump's administration were recently caught in a scandal after text messages discussing classified war plans made their way to a journalist. Now, their past remarks over a different scandal involving classified information are coming to light.The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg wrote an article on Monday entitled: "," which set off a firestorm of criticism over the information security practices of the administration's senior-level officials. In the group text that inadvertently made its way to Goldberg, several Trump Cabinet officials like National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, among others, are seen discussing details involving airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
The texts were sent on the messaging app Signal, which, while encrypted, is still relatively vulnerable compared to secured government phones. Goldberg noted in his report that Signal "is not approved by the government for sharing classified information." Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reacted to the news with an open-eye emoji, : "You have got to be kidding me."
In a thread on X, Sarah Longwell — who is publisher of the anti-Trump conservative news outlet The Bulwark — of some of the Trump Cabinet officials in the text thread offering their take on Clinton's use of a private email server ahead of the 2016 election.
"Mishandling classified information is a still a violation of the Espionage Act," . "It started with Hillary Clinton, it has continued without accountability, people haven't paid a price for that."
"Neither she nor any of these other people are going to be above the law," posted to his official Twitter account. "Whether it's her, or Eric Holder for what he did on Fast and Furious, we're going to hold people accountable."
"Apparently, the standard operating procedure inside the Clinton secretary of state office was to send emails that couldn't otherwise be printed to the maid to print them out of a secure area, or from a secure area, and then hand them off," Hegseth said . "Any security professional — military, government or otherwise — would be fired on the spot for this type of conduct, and criminally prosecuted, for being so reckless with this kind of information."
Jessica Tarlov Shreds White House Security Blunder: ‘I Don’t Want to Ever Hear’ About Hillary Clinton’s Emails Again
Fox News co-host Jessica Tarlov tore into the White House on Monday after it was revealed that The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg had accidentally been to a top-secret group chat about the Trump administration’s military plans.“Donald Trump’s ratings on handling the economy, inflation, cost of living are all tanking, and we’re seeing this administration’s incompetence and recklessness on a scale unimaginable,” said Tarlov on The Five:
Tarlov went on to reference the backlash over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s storage of government emails on a private server, declaring, “I don’t want to ever hear, ‘But her emails!’ again.”
“I don’t know what’s going to happen to anyone who’s involved in something like this, but on top of it, you have the vice president, he’s in there as well, contradicting Donald Trump on his policy on Europe,” she said. “So all of this is going on, we’re only a couple months into this administration, and when Carville says, ‘Let’s see what they do,’ you get stuff like this.”
After co-host Greg Gutfeld mocked the situation, Tarlov concluded, “It does confirm when people said that folks were getting these jobs that didn’t deserve them, that that’s probably the case.”
Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on Monday that the security blunder was a “very serious mistake” that could “undermine” the government’s “war plans, but also jeopardize lives.”
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Trump Joins Musk to Poke Fun at Massive War Plan Leak
President Donald Trump seemed so tickled by Elon Musk’s dig at that he had to repost it on his Truth Social page.The “first buddy” took a swipe at the magazine Monday afternoon after its editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published a detailing how he was inadvertently added to a top-secret group chat of national security officials discussing plans to strike Houthi targets in Yemen.
“Best place to hide a dead body is page 2 of The Atlantic magazine, because no one ever goes there,” Musk wrote on X.
The DOGE chief also reposted an article by the conservative satirical news website headlined “4D Chess: Genius Trump Leaks War Plans To ‘The Atlantic’ Where No One Will Ever See Them.”
Trump republished Musk’s post on with a link to The Babylon Bee story.
The president had a about The Atlantic himself, even as he admitted that he was unaware of both Goldberg’s stunning report and the Yemen operation central to it.
“I don’t know anything about it,” the commander-in-chief told reporters at the White House on Monday. “I’m not a big fan of The Atlantic.”
To me, it’s a magazine that’s going out of business. I think it’s not much of a magazine but I know nothing about it,” Trump went on. “You’re saying that they had what?”
After a reporter explained what messages were exchanged in the group chat, Trump said: “Having to do with what? What were they talking about?”
National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes the veracity of the group chat to Goldberg. The military strike was carried out on March 15, killing 53 people.
“This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain,” Hughes said. “The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials. The ongoing success of the Houthi operation demonstrates that there were no threats to troops or national security.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement that Trump continued to have confidence in his national security officials despite the massive leak.
“As President Trump said, the attacks on the Houthis have been highly successful and effective. President Trump continues to have the utmost confidence in his national security team, including National Security Advisor Mike Waltz,” she said.
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….but Sleepy Joe was getting and a little drifty on occasion and Kamala laughs!
The flagrant flouting of operational security rules lands Waltz and Hegseth in the hot seat and raises many questions
A MINDBOGGLING MISSTEP: As blunders go, this one is a doozy. But let’s be clear at the outset, the mistake by national security adviser Mike Waltz was not accidentally adding a journalist to a classified text message discussion. It was a violation of the most basic operational security precautions by conducting a group chat about real-world, real-time war plans over a commercial messaging app, Signal.It’s something specifically prohibited by an, which bars the use of “non-DOD messaging systems” and “unclassified systems, government-issued or otherwise, for classified national security information.”
The 18 people on the group chat were most of the nation's top defense and intelligence officials, albeit many with little or no experience at their jobs. They included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Vice President J.D. Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Middle East envoy, who appeared to be joining the encrypted text chain from Moscow.
“I just can't, to this moment, get over the idea that during the days that group was going on, not one of the participants said we shouldn't be doing this on Signal,” a flabbergasted John Bolton, former national security adviser, . “Words fail me here. I cannot even imagine this happening.”
OOPSIE! ATLANTIC EDITOR ACCIDENTALLY INVITED: We would have likely never known about the reckless disregard for standard security protocols had it not been for that bane of the digital age: the errant text message. It all started March 14, two days before the U.S. unleashed punishing airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, when Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, received a notice that he was to be included in a Signal chat group named “Houthi PC small group.”
And therein lies the tale Goldberg lays out in his first-person article, which was published at 7 a.m. Monday and can be . It’s full of behind-the-scenes insights, complete with screenshots that show, among other things, Vance and Hegseth's dislike of European "freeloaders” and Vance's initial opposition to the strikes.
But the most damning revelation is that, according to Goldberg, Hegseth, the neophyte defense secretary, made another rookie mistake when he shared detailed targeting plans on the unauthorized Signal chat.
“I will not quote from this update, or from certain other subsequent texts. The information contained in them, if an adversary of the United States had read them, could conceivably have been used to harm American military and intelligence personnel, particularly in the broader Middle East, Central Command’s area of responsibility,” Goldberg writes. “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."
That, my friends, is a mistake that demands accountability, a point Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell made last week at his . “If you have a private that loses a sensitive item, that loses night vision goggles, that loses a weapon, you can bet that that private is going to be held accountable. The same and equal standards must apply to senior military leaders.
HEGSETH: ‘NOBODY WAS TEXTING WAR PLANS’: Hegeth, confronted by reporters as he landed in Hawaii yesterday en route to Asia, reverted the same playbook he used during his confirmation hearings, admit nothing, deny everything, counterattack, and — according to Goldberg — lie.
“So you're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist, who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes, time and time again, to include the, I don't know, the hoaxes of ‘Russia, Russia, Russia,’ or the ‘Fine people on both sides hoax,’ or ‘Suckers and losers hoax.’ So this is the guy that peddles in garbage. This is what he does,” Hegseth said. Pressed about why information about “targets, the types of weapons used, and the timing” were shared on the Signal chat, an angry Hegseth denied that ever happened. “Nobody was texting war plans. And that's all I have to say about that.”
“That's a lie,” Goldberg said , one of many media appearances he made yesterday. “He was texting war plans. He was texting attack plans, when targets were going to be targeted, how they were going to be targeted, who was at the targets, when the next sequence of attacks were happening.”
QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS, SO MANY QUESTIONS: The intelligence debacle — the worst breach of operational security in recent memory — raises so many troubling questions, including the obvious one. Why use Signal, when the Pentagon has so many secure classified ways to discuss sensitive intelligence? Congress has questions, too, which no doubt will produce fireworks what’s promising to be must-see TV, unless, of course, it is canceled. Read on.
HAPPENING TODAY: It just so happens that two of the principles who should have known better than to be on that Signal group chat — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe — were previously before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the subject of "Worldwide Threats." Also scheduled to appear before the committee are FBI Director Kash Patel; Gen. Timothy Haugh, director of the National Security Agency; and Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
“I can guarantee you that this topic is going to come up,” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), a member of the Intelligence Committee, said last night on CNN. “When you're the Secretary of Defense or you're the National Security adviser or the Secretary of State, they'll often set up a secure facility for you in your house so you can have these kind of conversations. It should not be done on Signal.”
“So, I was pretty shocked by, you know, how not only that, this was done on this platform on Signal, but also just shocked about the lack of depth in the discussion before sending our Navy pilots over the beach to drop bombs where there is a significant threat,” Kelly said. “It was almost like they were deciding to order a pizza. And it's not the kind of conversation you would expect between the principals when they're deciding to commit troops to combat in a foreign country.”
As of this morning the hearing was still on.
“I can guarantee you that this topic is going to come up,” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), a member of the Intelligence Committee, said last night on CNN. “When you're the Secretary of Defense or you're the National Security adviser or the Secretary of State, they'll often set up a secure facility for you in your house so you can have these kind of conversations. It should not be done on Signal.”
“So, I was pretty shocked by, you know, how not only that, this was done on this platform on Signal, but also just shocked about the lack of depth in the discussion before sending our Navy pilots over the beach to drop bombs where there is a significant threat,” Kelly said. “It was almost like they were deciding to order a pizza. And it's not the kind of conversation you would expect between the principals when they're deciding to commit troops to combat in a foreign country.”
As of this morning the hearing was still on.
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'Oh For God's Sake': Fox News' Brit Hume Roasts Pete Hegseth's Excuse For New Scandal
The longtime Fox News analyst called BS on the defense secretary's attempt to dismiss the group chat messages accidentally sent to a journalist.
“You’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again,” Hegseth said.
But Hume was quick to point out the glaring flaw in Hegseth’s excuse: It wasn’t a hoax, as the that the messages accidentally sent to Goldberg were legit.
IGNORANCE, ARROGANCE, OR DECEPTION? One overriding question hanging over the whole stupefyingly boneheaded blunder is why, when everyone in the group chat knew or should have known that it violated clear proposals, no one objected or suggested moving the discussion to a secure venue.
Ignorance of the on “unclassified mobile applications” doesn't seem likely. So, was it a case of arrogance? As in, the rules don’t apply to me, and Signal is the most convenient way to communicate with everyone at once. Or, as some suspect, is the Trump administration routinely using Signal, with its disappearing message feature, to keep their private discussions from becoming part of the public record or being revealed under Freedom of Information laws?
“Waltz set some of the messages in the Signal group to disappear after one week, and some after four,” Goldberg revealed. “That raises questions about whether the officials may have violated federal records law: Text messages about official acts are considered records that should be preserved.”
“The fact that messages were set to disappear on this chain is a direct violation of the Presidential Records Act, a further egregious breach of public trust,” wrote Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) in a letter to President Donald Trump signed by 14 Democratic senators. “This incompetence warrants disciplinary action.”
“What other sensitive military operations have been coordinated by your administration via Signal?” the senators ask. “Will you comply with the Presidential Records Act and provide the text of the “Houthi PC small group” Signal chain for appropriate handling and preservation?”
TRUMP: ‘I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT’: Hours after the story broke in the early morning, Trump insisted that nobody told him about it.
“I don't know anything about it,” Trump said before transitioning to his standard rant against the news media that run critical stories about him. “I'm not a big fan of the Atlantic. To me, it's a magazine that's going out of business. I think it's not much of a magazine.”
When a reporter said that his national security team was using Signal to coordinate the strikes on the Houthis, Trump again pleaded ignorance.
“The attack was very effective, I can tell you that. I don't know anything about it,” Trump said. “You're telling me about it for the first time.”
‘THESE PEOPLE ARE CLEARLY NOT UP FOR THE JOB’: Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to call for a bipartisan investigation and questioned whether Trump’s national security team — and Pete Hegseth in particular — are in over their heads.
“We warned that confirming them was dangerous, and that they would behave recklessly. Unfortunately, we were right,” Schumer said. “When Pete Hegseth came before the Senate as a nominee, Democrats warned that something like this might happen. These people are clearly not up for the job.”
“Now, we must have accountability, and both parties in the Senate should investigate how this blunder was even possible … This debacle requires a full investigation into how this happened, the damage it created, and how we can avoid it in the future,” Schumer said. “Every single Senator – Republican and Democrat and Independent – must demand accountability.”
Ignorance of the on “unclassified mobile applications” doesn't seem likely. So, was it a case of arrogance? As in, the rules don’t apply to me, and Signal is the most convenient way to communicate with everyone at once. Or, as some suspect, is the Trump administration routinely using Signal, with its disappearing message feature, to keep their private discussions from becoming part of the public record or being revealed under Freedom of Information laws?
“Waltz set some of the messages in the Signal group to disappear after one week, and some after four,” Goldberg revealed. “That raises questions about whether the officials may have violated federal records law: Text messages about official acts are considered records that should be preserved.”
“The fact that messages were set to disappear on this chain is a direct violation of the Presidential Records Act, a further egregious breach of public trust,” wrote Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) in a letter to President Donald Trump signed by 14 Democratic senators. “This incompetence warrants disciplinary action.”
“What other sensitive military operations have been coordinated by your administration via Signal?” the senators ask. “Will you comply with the Presidential Records Act and provide the text of the “Houthi PC small group” Signal chain for appropriate handling and preservation?”
TRUMP: ‘I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT’: Hours after the story broke in the early morning, Trump insisted that nobody told him about it.
“I don't know anything about it,” Trump said before transitioning to his standard rant against the news media that run critical stories about him. “I'm not a big fan of the Atlantic. To me, it's a magazine that's going out of business. I think it's not much of a magazine.”
When a reporter said that his national security team was using Signal to coordinate the strikes on the Houthis, Trump again pleaded ignorance.
“The attack was very effective, I can tell you that. I don't know anything about it,” Trump said. “You're telling me about it for the first time.”
‘THESE PEOPLE ARE CLEARLY NOT UP FOR THE JOB’: Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to call for a bipartisan investigation and questioned whether Trump’s national security team — and Pete Hegseth in particular — are in over their heads.
“We warned that confirming them was dangerous, and that they would behave recklessly. Unfortunately, we were right,” Schumer said. “When Pete Hegseth came before the Senate as a nominee, Democrats warned that something like this might happen. These people are clearly not up for the job.”
“Now, we must have accountability, and both parties in the Senate should investigate how this blunder was even possible … This debacle requires a full investigation into how this happened, the damage it created, and how we can avoid it in the future,” Schumer said. “Every single Senator – Republican and Democrat and Independent – must demand accountability.”
DOING THE WORLD A FAVOR? REALLY? One of the interesting revelations in the text discussions monitored by Jeffrey Goldberg was the back and forth over how to force other countries to pick up the cost of the U.S. operation to restore freedom of navigation to the Bab el Mandeb strait that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, which Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said in several forums the U.S. is doing as “a favor to the world.”
Turns out the favor comes with a bill, or will as soon as the Trump team can figure out who to charge. “It will have to be the United States that reopens these shipping lanes,” Mike Waltz says at one point. “Per the president’s request we are working with DOD and State to determine how to compile the cost associated and levy them on the Europeans.”
At another point, J.D. Vance says, “I just hate bailing Europe out again,” to which Pete Hegseth responds, “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC. But Mike is correct, we are the only ones on the planet (on our side of the ledger) who can do this. Nobody else even close.”
“As I heard it, the president was clear: green light, but we soon make clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return,” says someone with the initials SM, which appears to be Steven Miller, deputy chief of staff, chiming in from the White House. “We also need to figure out how to enforce such a requirement. EG, if Europe doesn’t remunerate, then what? If the US successfully restores freedom of navigation at great cost there needs to be some further economic gain extracted in return.”
“Agree,” said Hegseth.
Turns out the favor comes with a bill, or will as soon as the Trump team can figure out who to charge. “It will have to be the United States that reopens these shipping lanes,” Mike Waltz says at one point. “Per the president’s request we are working with DOD and State to determine how to compile the cost associated and levy them on the Europeans.”
At another point, J.D. Vance says, “I just hate bailing Europe out again,” to which Pete Hegseth responds, “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC. But Mike is correct, we are the only ones on the planet (on our side of the ledger) who can do this. Nobody else even close.”
“As I heard it, the president was clear: green light, but we soon make clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return,” says someone with the initials SM, which appears to be Steven Miller, deputy chief of staff, chiming in from the White House. “We also need to figure out how to enforce such a requirement. EG, if Europe doesn’t remunerate, then what? If the US successfully restores freedom of navigation at great cost there needs to be some further economic gain extracted in return.”
“Agree,” said Hegseth.
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