Via an unclassified, unmanaged, and unmonitored Signal channel, no less. If you or I did that, we'd go to federal prison.
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Remember when Republicans went up in arms about Hillary's emails?
usually when politicians use Signal it's because they don't want their messages FOIA'd or audited. I can't really imagine Vance or Hegseth worrying about that, though, which makes me wonder if it's just horrible opsec, if they can't be bothered to use a SCIF or what?
That’s exactly what it’s about. There are appropriate channels for this sort of communication, that his mobsters refuse to use because they don’t want officials gaining access to it in the event of investigations. Why did Trump tear up and eat official presidential notes? They don’t want a record for light to be shone on.
In Goldberg’s own write-up in The Atlantic he mentioned the admin has, in the past, had an odd fixation on him.
It’s possible this was both gross negligence of national security and an attempt to entrap the journalist into being a leaker/whistleblower; creating a convenient excuse to target Goldberg and disappear him to El Salvador.
I have met him in the past, and though I didn’t find it particularly strange that he might be reaching out to me, I did think it somewhat unusual, given the Trump administration’s contentious relationship with journalists—and Trump’s periodic fixation on me specifically.[…] It is not at all uncommon these days for nefarious actors to try to induce journalists to share information that could be used against them.
Dude better get himself a good security detail and disappear for a while.
Yeah, this shit is on purpose. These people have no respect for national security (and no respect for our allies), so it makes sense to me that at least one of them is playing dumb games. Pete should have never risen to this position in government.
As it stands, people who like the trump admin will see nothing wrong with these messages (if they even read them). Maybe they'll even think those goobers are doing a good job.
The people who hate the trump admin will not change their opinions of them after this (it can't possibly be lower for most people who hate these fascists). Critiques of the signal meeting will be met with comments like "so the journalist should be in jail for leaking!" or "Does it matter? Look at trumps men going after the terrorists! Do you love terrorists or something?"
Facilitating the of leaking this stuff is win/win if you don't value the lives of military personnel, records acts, security clearances, international opinion, etc.
Fucking moron traitor cunts.
Imagine these fuckin' idiots in charge if America was attacked by other countries. Sadly, it's definitely not farfetched
Probably now they plan to jail the journalist for receiving confidential information
Consequences any moment now...