But her emails
2025-03-24 19:11:21.415515+01 by
Dan Lyke
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Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
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.
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#Comment Re: But her emails made: 2025-03-26 16:05:43.327674+01 by:
Dan Lyke
The Atlantic publishes full Signal thread with Hegseth, Waltz after Trump says texts not classified
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
#Comment Re: But her emails made: 2025-03-25 16:27:47.319054+01 by:
Dan Lyke
Kelsey Atherton
@atherton.bsky.social
Congrats to the Atlantic for leaking the second most important group
chat they've been a part of.
(The first is the one where Singal convinced opinion writers at the
Atlantic and elsewhere that his pruient special interest was in fact
a national crisis he should get paid to dig into for years.)
#Comment Re: But her emails made: 2025-03-25 16:27:47.319054+01 by:
Dan Lyke
Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social
White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no
one involved was trying to cure cancer.
#Comment Re: But her emails made: 2025-03-24 15:46:34.373025+01 by:
Dan Lyke
Andrew Fleischman @nobodyinteresting.bsky.social
"I WILL DO ALL I CAN DO ENFORCE 100% OPSEC," he texted directly to a
journalist by mistake
Zorbrix
@zorbrix.com
Hey at least it wasn't the War Thunder forums this time, right?
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social
So, reading the article, I am also struck - in addition to the OPSEC catastrophe - by how shallow the strategic thinking here is.
Maybe that's just always the way it is, but all the concerns are domestic politics and messaging. No one asks, "will these strikes accomplish anything and if so, what?"
Continuing the thread:
I hate to give the guy even a tiny bit of credit, but the only person with a strategic thought in the convo is Vance, who realizes - to no avail - that strikes will contradict the administrations strategy in Europe by reasserting US involvement in an area that more directly concerns EU interests.
Hegseth in the convo appears to sincerely believe more airstrikes will 'reestablish deterrence' which is an insane thing to think given how much time and bombs have been spent 2015-to-present airstriking the Houthis.
The fact that Stephen Miller - the White House 'palace goblin' with no national security background - appears to make the decisive intervention because he has the ear of the president despite a total lack of qualifications is also shocking to me.
#Comment Re: But her emails made: 2025-03-24 15:46:34.373025+01 by:
Dan Lyke
Rev. Odessa Cathode Ray :vepi: @odessa@dobbs.town
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#Comment Re: But her emails made: 2025-03-24 15:46:34.373025+01 by:
Dan Lyke
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
Every government that uses #Signal should be forced to donate at least $1M per year to the foundation. Triple that amount when they accidentally invite journalists to top secret groups. :)
Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Tip: in case you lose your phone and so all your Signal chat histories,
add a reporter or hostile nation state to your group chats for free
backup and recovery.
#Comment Re: But her emails made: 2025-03-24 15:46:34.373025+01 by:
Dan Lyke
BlueSky thread with cites from those involved talking about security when Democrats are doing it.