You are preaching to the choir.

There are many people not paying attention, but they are not here.

#SignalGate

A Republican gets it. 1/...

Via Rupar:

GOP Rep. Bacon: "Everybody that reads the messages knows that it was inappropriate for the secretary of defense to put when we were gonna bomb Yemen, when the aircraft are taking off ... I have no doubt that Russia and China are able to read those messages. I would be very surprised if they did not"

#SignalGate

@cockneylaurie

#USpol #InfoSec

Really excellent wrap-up of
#SignalGate. 👍

@heidilifeldman

As bad (and it is bad) as this entire SignalGate thing is in and of itself, there is literally no gov’t agency remaining that can or will bring charges, dismiss the guilty, or deliver accountability.

Media would do everyone a favor by reporting that part of the story.

#politics #signalgate

Can you spell g-a-s-l-i-g-h-t-i-n-g?

#Trump: "Hegseth is doing a great job. He had nothing to do this. How do you bring Hegseth into it? He had nothing to do with it. Look, it's all a witch hunt ... I think Signal could be defective to be honest with you."

#SignalGate #WhiskeyLeaks

#Republicans in the #House hearing are mostly ignoring the #Signal chat. Rep #DanCrenshaw, Republican of Texas, was one of the few to even bring it up.

“I will note I always use fire emojis when I see terrorists getting killed,” he said.

🙄
#law #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy #intelligence #InfoSec

#TulsiGabbard said the release of the additional screenshots by #TheAtlantic today “were a refresher on what happened.” But she said she stood by her responses to the #Senate yesterday, when she said she did not recall that the #Signal chat included the timing or order of the strikes on the #Houthis.

Earlier, Rep #JimmyGonez reminded them they’d been in office for less than 2 months & this all took place just 10 days ago.

#law #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy

#TulsiGabbard said she didn’t play a “specific role” in the #Signal chat because she was traveling. But she also pushed a new defense. The material presented in the chat, she said, was being shared w/regional allies at the same time as it was being shared w/cabinet members. “The decision to conduct this operation had been made long before that conversation took place,” she said.

#law #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy

“I do take my responsibility very seriously, & played an integral role in providing the #intelligence communities assessments that led to the ultimate decision by the president to conduct an operation which, by the way, was very successful & continues to be very successful,” #Gabbard said.

#law #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy

#Trump will hold a news conference at 4PM, the White House press secretary announced.

The only thing I can predict is that it will be painful to watch.

#law #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #Signal #idiocracy #kakistocracy

Sen #AdamSchiff, D-CA, is requesting information from Dir of Natl #Intelligence #TulsiGabbard & US Special Envoy #SteveWitkoff about whether they used #Signal on personal devices as part of their jobs & is questioning whether the 2 were abroad during the chat involving #TheAtlantic's #JeffreyGoldberg.

#law #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #Signal #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy

#Witkoff denied having a personal device w/him during his trip to #Russia, saying in a social media post that he had only a govt-issued secure phone during his travels & suggesting that was why he did not comment in the group chat for a period of time.

Witkoff's post was responding to an op-ed in The WSJ, which referenced media reports about Witkoff "receiving these messages on the commercial app while in Moscow."

#law #SignalGate #Signal #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy
wsj.com/opinion/signal-leak-ho…

#Witkoff did not confirm in the post whether he had been using #Signal on a govt device or personal device. But when recounting why he was silent for portions of the group chat discussion, Witkoff said it was "because I had no access to my personal devices until I returned from my trip."

Witkoff's post also comes after Sen #AdamSchiff sent a letter to #Gabbard & him requesting info about their use of Signal & travel by March 31.

#law #SignalGate #Signal #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy

Secy of #State #MarcoRubio said in remarks today in Jamaica that someone made a “big mistake” adding #TheAtlantic's editor-in-chief to the #Signal chat that contained info about a #military attack on the #Houthis in #Yemen.

Unlike everyone else in the #Trump admin, he didn’t defame #JeffreyGoldberg.

"Obviously, someone made a mistake. Someone made a big mistake & added a journalist. Nothing against journalists, but you ain’t supposed to be on that thing," Rubio said.

#law #SignalGate #Trump

Asked if the info shared in the #Signal chat was classified, #Rubio said, "Well, the #Pentagon says it was not. And not only did they said it was not, they made very clear that it didn’t put in danger anyone’s life or the mission. There was no intelligence information. And understand, when this story first broke, they were sort of alluding to, were there war maps? ... There were no war plans on there."

#law #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #Trump #idiocracy #kakistocracy

Keep 'em coming

Via Kyle Griffin:

Sen. Tammy Duckworth calls on Pete Hegseth to resign:

"Pete Hegseth is a f*cking liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could've gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately."

#SignalGate

Oops.

Via Anna Bower:

Yesterday, Michael Waltz claimed that he’s “never met, don’t know, never communicated with” Jeffrey Goldberg.

Here’s a photo of Waltz standing next to Goldberg during a 2021 event at the French Embassy.

The event Waltz attended—a Q&A with a French filmmaker—was moderated by Goldberg. #SignalGate

[Parnell stmnt cont]

“The American people see through the Atlantic’s pathetic attempts to distract from President #Trump’s #NationalSecurity agenda.”

Several retired military commanders have pushed back on the claims that the details in #PeteHegseth’s messages were not classified.

#law #SignalGate #Signal #idiocracy #kakistocracy #intelligence #InfoSec