The following was excerpted from today’s Wall Street Journal.
”Senior Trump administration national-security officials held detailed discussions of highly classified U.S. plans to launch airstrikes against Yemen's Houthi militants using a commercial messaging service and mistakenly included a journalist in the conversation, U.S. officials saidMonday. The chats over the Signal encrypted messaging service spanned days and included specific information about weapons, targets and timing used in the attack, according to the Atlantic magazine, whose editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, was inadvertently included in the discussion and who disclosed the texts.
“National-security experts and former officials say that use of Signal for conducting classified discussions about imminent military action was a serious breach of security procedures governing the handling of sensitive defense information.”
Lay off the bottle Pete!
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It's more bank robber than carny. Robbing us of our Democracy.
We need a hero.
Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently added to a group chat via Signal.
Mr. Goldberg received operational military information regarding the Yemen attack
two hours prior to the attack. Release of this sensitive information to unauthorized
individuals could endanger our military personnel and operations.
These snafus shouldn't be surprising since only the "best and brightest"
were selected for key positions in the Trump administration!!!
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Leon Panetta (former secretary of defense, former director of CIA) was a PBS News Hour guest this evening.
He was taken aback that this conversation took place on a commercial messaging network.
"That just strikes me as being pretty careless."
Mr. Panetta believes this incident must be investigated.
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As an aside, I don’t like the AOC and Crockett crowd anymore than the MAGA crowd ala Greene and Boebert. I sort of feel like lost in the wild. Whatever happened to moderate politicians on both sides of the aisle? The Bill Clintons and the Mitt Romneys? I am so far to the right on some issues yet so far to the left on others I guess that puts me in the middle. Remember the far left Earth First movement? I was a proud supporter. Yet on immigration and crime I am about as far to the right as it gets. What boggles my mind is the Dems still can’t grasp why they lost in 2024. Fetterman in your neck of the woods sure has it figured out. My kind of guy and a real maverick.
AOC and Bernie are something like heroes to me. But that's because they've got the visibility. I know there are others out there whose priorities are something like my own. Hard to find, though: too many in the general public have been brainwashed to believe the Repugnants' claim that they (Progressives) are radical Leftists. OK, I don't go along with "woke." Their economics and civil/human rights agenda is otherwise right up my alley, however.
A Repugnant old friend introduced me last night to an internet magazine of sorts called "The American Thinker." I took the time to read three different items. It's all editorials with a demented Trumpish-Repugnant framing of the current issues facing us and the rest of the world. They get their FACTS right; but the spin they put on them is always a remarkable obfuscation-job. Virtually everything is misrepresented, mischaracterized. It is nothing short of heinous.
As I've said many times: the Repugnant con-job foisted upon us dates back to Ralph Reed, Gingrich the Newt, Ronny Ray-guns. It shifted into high gear in the past decade or so. One of the latest detestable examples was a Repugnant Congressman interviewed on PBS Newshour who made the claim that Biden was "Stalinist." They are shameless, and they don't care. They have by now completely thrown out the Constitution. They're making up the rules as they go along, now: guided by their own prejudice and ignorance in order to "Make 'Murica Grate Agin." Pass the Kool-Aid, will ya? Sugar? Sure. I got free dental with my Medicaid. ... Whata ya MEAN, The President is going to cut it???????
Thanks Old_Joe. Pure class as I would expect from you.
"Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Their Fingers"
That party has really lost its way. Can't rely on Schumer, that's been proven.
I drove into the Apps maybe 12-14 years ago from Michigan. Stayed somewhere in W Virginia for a few nights. You won’t find more decent friendly folks anywhere IMHO. Unfortunately, the local economy took a hit when the country shifted away from coal as a major source of energy. Some of that as a result of environmental concerns. Whatever the reasons, it threw many families into poverty and turned them (justly / unjustly) against the liberal political establishment. I’m sure there’s more to it - but that was a huge factor in shaping the current political climate.