I can't fathom why they would use signal.

To hide paper trails as outlined in project 2025.

Whats the over/under on Hegseth being --------- when he sent that?

Yeah, absolutely nothing will be done about the obvious perjury from the IC officials in yesterday's hearing.

Definitely not a battle plan. /s

More: Late yesterday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt emailed a response: "As we have repeatedly stated, there was no classified information transmitted in the group chat. However, as the CIA Director and National Security Advisor have both expressed today, that does not mean we encourage the release of the conversation. This was intended to be a an [sic] internal and private deliberation amongst high-level senior staff and sensitive information was discussed. So for those reason [sic] " yes, we object to the release." (The Leavitt statement did not address which elements of the texts the White House considered sensitive, or how, more than a week after the initial airstrikes, their publication could have bearing on national security.)

A CIA spokesperson asked us to withhold the name of John Ratcliffe's chief of staff, which Ratcliffe had shared in the Signal chain, because CIA intelligence officers are traditionally not publicly identified. Ratcliffe had testified earlier yesterday that the officer is not undercover and said it was "completely appropriate" to share their name in the Signal conversation. We will continue to withhold the name of the officer. Otherwise, the messages are unredacted.

As we wrote on Monday, much of the conversation in the "Houthi PC small group" concerned the timing and rationale of attacks on the Houthis, and contained remarks by Trump-administration officials about the alleged shortcomings of America's European allies. But on the day of the attack"Saturday, March 15"the discussion veered toward the operational.

So you're accusing Mike Johnson of being part of a hoax against the American public? Or do you just not know what that word means?

Here's a link to video of Johnson saying what is quoted above for the cognitively challenged. Skip ahead to the 1:40 mark.

More: Facing pressure from his right flank to take on judges who have ruled against President Donald Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Tuesday floated the possibility of Congress eliminating some federal courts.

It's the latest attack from Republicans on the federal judiciary, as courts have blocked a series of actions taken by the Trump administration. In addition to funding threats, Trump and his conservative allies have called for the impeachment of certain federal judges who have ruled against him, most notably U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who attempted to halt Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants.

"We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know. We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things," Johnson told reporters on Tuesday. "But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act."

I know all you Trump supporters are multi millionaires, so it makes sense none of you are concerned about losing your social security and Medicare.

MAGAts don't care. They could be reduced to eating pet food to survive and still vote the same ------ back into office.

It was mentioned in the Senate hearing today that one of the participants was actually in Russia while this discussion was happening.

Social Security is being forced to break down.

More: It's way too soon to say whether Hegseth's incompetence is also criminal, but I raise the possibility to demonstrate the sheer magnitude of Hegseth's reported mistake. A security breach that significant requires a thorough investigation.

Nothing destroys a leader's credibility with soldiers more thoroughly than hypocrisy or double standards. When leaders break the rules that they impose on soldiers, they break the bond of trust between soldiers and commanders. The best commanders I knew did not ask a soldier to comply with a rule that didn't also apply to him. The best commanders led by example.

What example has Hegseth set? That he's careless, and when you're careless in the military, people can die. If he had any honor at all, he would resign.

All the hillbillies in western NC depending on FEMA after Helene are about to learn a hard lesson.

#23 SIPRnet is too low of a classification level for something like this. It should have taken place in a SCIF. Or over government issued encrypted phones.

More: It's worth taking a moment to put this number into some context in case half a trillion dollars doesn't do it for you. Non-defense discretionary spending is the cost to fund the U.S. government once you take out mandatory spending (mostly Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) and the cost of the U.S. military. For 2023 that number was $917 billion. So that's most of the stuff we think of as the government, apart from those payment programs and the military. In other words, in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government " more or less light on fire " more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending.

They had what had to be a TS/SCI Special Access level conversation on Signal with some of the highest positioned members of our government with the editor of the The Atlantic included on the thread AND NOBODY KNEW!

People have been prosecuted for lesser mistakes.

Thoughts and prayers for the mass murder of school children. Imprisonment of "domestic terrorists" in a foreign gulag for vandalizing a car.

Are we great yet?

More: Dudek's threat to block SSA employees from using the agency's IT systems " a move that could halt Social Security payments " came in response to a judge's temporary restraining order in a case brought by the AFL-CIO labor union. The order bars Social Security Administration officials from allowing DOGE, including Musk, and the SSA's DOGE team to access personally identifiable information. It also directs Musk and DOGE to delete from their possession all non-anonymized personal data, and bars them from having access to SSA computers or code.

Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander wrote that the SSA had likely violated administrative and privacy laws when it gave DOGE "unbridled access to the personal and private data of millions of Americans, including but not limited to Social Security numbers, medical records, mental health records, hospitalization records, drivers' license numbers, bank and credit card information, tax information, income history, work history, birth and marriage certificates, and home and work addresses."

She added that the "defendants, with so-called experts on the DOGE Team, never identified or articulated even a single reason for which the DOGE Team needs unlimited access to SSA's entire record systems, thereby exposing personal, confidential, sensitive, and private information that millions of Americans entrusted to their government."

Hollander's order does allow the SSA to grant DOGE members "access to redacted or anonymized data and records" if they receive standard training for employees who generally work with Social Security data systems, to ensure they understand applicable federal laws, regulations, and policies that protect the privacy of personally identifiable information.

In other words, Musk and DOGE must comply with existing privacy laws. According to Dudek, Trump's acting commissioner for the Social Security Administration, this requirement is a reason to threaten to halt the safety net program that 71 million Americans rely on for support.

Dudek's comments come as DOGE moves to close dozens of SSA offices, potentially limit phone services, and demand that beneficiaries travel to visit offices in-person to verify their identities " changes that stand to overwhelm the system and prevent seniors and the disabled from receiving their checks.

I defy anyone to list even on good reason for this.

As a former custodian of classified documents this is unfathomable.

UK did the same thing

Remember when the government at least pretended to not be in the business of picking winners and losers?

It would be kind of funny if it weren't so tragic.

Trump getting played is, well, expected. The cost of his incompetence paid by the Ukrainian people is unacceptable.

That's a good start.

Disgusting.

FDA will find a way to ban the treatment.