Signal Texting "Leak" of Potential Yemeni Strikes by Trump's Team-Oops?

Posted by Aeronca 6 days, 18 hours ago to Government
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So, Some of Trump's appointees including DNI Gabbard and Vance were having a Signal texting chat discussing sensitive but unclassified potential military activity against Yemen and a reporter-journalist was somehow in that chat. I was watching the hearings in Congress, the usual grilling of Gabbard et al. It looks bad.

Was the reporter put in by mistake?

Was Signal hacked so the reporter could spy on it?

Did our government leak it on purpose for effect, letting the reporter blab it out as they knew he would?

Do we have yet another mole, a "leaker"?

Were they stupid to be using a private app and to be texting sensitive things?

My thoughts, yours?


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  • Posted by mhubb 6 days, 14 hours ago
    bigger question
    why is the contact info for someone that hates Trump on the phone of someone in the Trump admin???

    who added to the call/sent the info to this lying "journalist"
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    • Posted by tutor-turtle 4 days, 14 hours ago
      First and foremost: When you find yourself in a meeting that you clearing don't belong in, even more so when "sensitive" "confidential" information is being discussed,
      (And absolutely if it is in any way, shape, manner or form considered "classified".)
      you are morally and ethically obligated to identify yourself, announce your inappropriate presence, and leave the meeting the moment it becomes apparent you don't belong there.

      Otherwise your are a spy.
      Subject to all the penalties of spying.

      The fact that this Scumbag lurked in the shadows, spying on elected members of congress and our military, and did not confess to his sins until it was politically expedient, tells us everything we need to know about his motives.
      He is, in fact, a spy
      And should be prosecuted as such.

      Secondly: Having worked on classified programs, the access list for compartmentalized communications is logged for every event.

      Meaning: there exists a digital paper trail of when "Scumbag" was placed on the list and who put him there.

      Was he on the list during the Buy-Dumb regime, and never taken off?
      Did a Rat sneak aboard the USS Trump and doctor the access list? (there will be a digital trail here too).

      All things computer tell a tale if you know where to look.

      Time to call in team Musk. The evidence is there, waiting to be discovered.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 6 days, 17 hours ago
    Maybe a mistake; maybe an intentional leak and distraction.
    It's a molehill being made into an anthill by the treasonous media.
    A choice: (a) trust the biased media, (b) trust the biased politicians,
    (c) ignore the entire pile of sludge and get on with personal productivity
    while preparing for an extended economic decline caused by the
    activities of the biased media and biased politicians.
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    • Posted by rhfinle 4 days, 18 hours ago
      I agree with F.F.A.
      I think it was Sun Tzu that discussed planting false information to misdirect an enemy. That's been standard practice for 3000 years.
      Sometimes, too, you can artificially create a situation like this, using less-valuable information, in order to expose suspected leaks.
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  • Posted by EMC2 4 days, 19 hours ago
    Hopefully, the Houthis and other enemies got the message that was intended to reach them via this "mistake" ha!. Thanks, Atlantic dupes! Trump and Company play 3-D chess again. This was set up by Trump Team for exposure of the enemy within and it's still playing out. Effective way to clean house by making the dirt eliminate itself, both inside the administration and outside. :D
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  • Posted by mhubb 6 days, 17 hours ago
    does not really matter
    NOTHING the yeman bast_ards would do would stop us for doing what we needed to do

    was this a mis-direction? look here while we attack there...

    yes, someone needs to verify how it happened, if it happened

    (not) smart phones are the bane of all that use them.
    i almost added 138 people to a MS Teams call, i typed the first 2 letters of someone's name, hit "add" to add them to the call. the list updated to be 138 people.... damn computers slow refresh
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  • Posted by rcarrion 5 days, 19 hours ago
    Signal was authorized, however, the discussion should have been tapered down. Additionally, whoever set up the group is also at fault. They have iridium phones 📱 for such comms...
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  • Posted by mccannon01 5 days, 22 hours ago
    A possibility I saw elsewhere is laziness (and incompetence in not checking) where the sender used the initials JG to add a person to the call list and Jeff Goldberg was inserted from the sender's contact list instead of Jameison Greer, the U.S. Trade Representative who attends National Security Council meetings. Oops! Better be more careful next time! Actually, a lesson for all of us to heed.
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    • Posted by mhubb 5 days, 20 hours ago
      the software used should have a list to exclude
      people make mistakes...
      so more error checking is needed
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      • Posted by mccannon01 5 days, 19 hours ago
        The software, like a lot of apps, "helps out" but the user must do the checking. I suspect the user in this case just assumed it would come out right. I've been caught by tech spell and grammar checkers in the past and found something different than I typed. Poking those tiny boxes of characters on my phone with my fat fingers doesn't help, either. Same as speaking text. Bah, you got to check before hitting "send".
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 3 days, 21 hours ago
    This in itself is a woopsie.
    - The Executive should simply say this is Executive privilege and qualified immunity, destroy all the info, and ignore the judge. The separate "watchdog" group has no standing. That is what any of the demonrat admins would have done (e.g. Hillary). They should have done this already.
    - Time for the Admin to start leaking "colored" information and find the moles (from other episodes), and prosecute them for treason.
    - My guess is Signal et al, are quite difficult to break.
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