The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
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U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
Wow these people are absolute clowns for sharing classified information about an impending military strike on signal in the first place and then the fact they did it with a person present in the group chat who wasn’t even supposed to be there?!?! What in the actual fuck? But yes Hilary Clinton needs to go to jail for sending email on a private email server. Holy fuck these people are all incompetent.
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Yeah but what about Hillary's emails?
Or something about a Kenyan father?
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This is absolutely staggering. I’m still trying to process the fact that senior U.S. officials—people at the highest levels of government—were casually texting war plans over Signal, an app that’s not even approved for classified communications. Not only that, but they accidentally added a journalist to the group chat. And then? Just carried on like nothing happened. No one noticed. No one asked questions. They dropped operational details, discussed strategy, named targets, and then capped it all off with high-five emojis.
It’s not just irresponsible—it’s surreal. This isn’t a parody or a leaked TV script. This happened. They talked about military strikes the same way people coordinate a fantasy football draft. And then, as if to hammer home just how broken our national security culture has become, they celebrated the bombing of a foreign country with emojis. Fire, flags, praying hands, muscle arms. Like they’d just won a pickup basketball game.
What’s worse—what really makes my blood boil—is that nothing will come of it. Nothing. There won’t be hearings. No one will be fired. There won’t even be a slap on the wrist. The fact that a sitting Secretary of Defense might have violated the Espionage Act by leaking sensitive war plans over an unsecured app to a journalist should be a full-blown national scandal. Instead? Silence. Shrugs. Maybe a Fox News segment praising how "tough" the response was.
It’s the normalization of absurdity. It’s government by group chat, with the fate of lives—American and otherwise—being tossed around like a Twitter thread. And the most horrifying part? They all seem to think this is fine. Routine. Standard operating procedure.
This is bigger than partisan politics. This is about the breakdown of basic standards—of competence, of professionalism, of decency. If this doesn’t trigger national outrage, if this doesn’t result in real consequences, then we’ve officially accepted that chaos, recklessness, and emoji warfare are the new norm.
I’m furious. And if you're not, you should be too.
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Tell me honestly if you were added to such a chat would you think it serious or some sort of military larp chat?
Then tell me you'd be able to contact the houthis in less than 2h much less being trusted about it or any sort of secretive about it?
I probably cant contact the relevant yemeni authorities privately but this guy probably could have. Also confirming a few phone numbers to rule out the larp idea is surely not impossible for a journalist of this level. To prepare for both of those he had 3 days btw not 2h.
Even if you didnt do it privately, you could just share the info anonymously with the public. That wouldnt prevent the strike because it would just be delayed but it would have still been a decent warning.
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Thanks for the response and interesting link. I should have worded my initial comment better, I suppose.
What I am saying it that it may be worth considering that the extraordinary nature of the leak warrants a critical analysis of a possible ulterior motive or furtherance of some other agenda.
What I may be, I don't know.
However, for instance, even more than the leak itself, I find it ultimately more relevant that a very anti-European stance was expressed in the coziness of a "private" chat by the senior most national-security officials of the US.
You're getting down voted on your top level comment, but I wanted to take a second to say I appreciate your back and forth here. I'm more inclined to call this incompetence, but your point that other motives and agendas could be at play is well taken.
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U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
Lmao called it 3 months ago.
https://lemmy.world/post/23297450/14043985I'm gonna call it again, it's gonna happen again.
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How does this make them look even mildly competent? They disclosed war plans to an unknown third party by using unsanctioned communication tools. They got lucky it was a reporter who thought he was being baited rather than a more malicious and intentioned actor.
Yeah a lot of reporters would just sit on it then use it as a source.
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U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
Anyone taking bets on how long it is until they weaponize this buffoonish gaffe by "accidentally" sending mundane classified, secret or top secret information to opponents in an effort to get them arrested for receipt of restricted documents?
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Like, I expected that behind closed doors they all call it nonsense
No, they are actually stupid enough to believe the shit they are saying.
They have been carefully assembled to make Trump look smart in comparison. It wasn't an easy task.
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They're going to try and ruin this journalist for embarrassing them, that's what will happen.
Yep. Sue him and his paper to kingdom come.
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U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
This kind of incompetence at the highest government levels doesn't surprise me anymore. Remember back in 2018 when Hawaiin government officials sent out a false alert of an incoming ballistic missile strike? Shortly after that some pictures surfaced of the computer used to send out the alert and the fucking password was written on a post-it note and stuck to the computer.
I think we all want to believe that governments operate at the highest levels of efficiency, security and intelligence because thats what is shown to us in movies and TV but the reality is there are idiots involved at even the highest levels.
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Well at least they use Signal.. (half /s)
I mean, signal (on a personal device???) is fine for personal use.
It is not fine when you are the target of foreign espionage on the scale of the VP or head of DoD.
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They want to show that they really believe in those bullshit prayers, that they are good Christians or something like that. When behind the scenes they don't give a shit about religion.
This would be so much worse. They violated laws and leaked classified top secret information to prove they are good Christians?
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Prove it.
Doesn’t the timing of the strike prove it?
And it’s also been semi acknowledged officially.
Not sure what more you want.
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The Hegseth message goes on to state, “Waiting a few weeks or a month does not fundamentally change the calculus. 2 immediate risks on waiting: 1) this leaks, and we look indecisive;
Lolz
We are currently clean on OPSEC.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the sheer ineptitude of these fucking Nazis.
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U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
this is why you shouldn't text while drunk.
and shouldn't drink on the job.
and shouldn't employ peter cunting hegseth.
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Yep. Sue him and his paper to kingdom come.
I think elimination as in “suicided” seems more likely. I wouldn’t hold my breath when it comes to not taking it so lightly with the journalist, and I am still wondering if this is all satire. But accidentally including a journalist number in signal app is insane. It’s a like a bogus screen cap from Idiocracy.
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Lmao called it 3 months ago.
https://lemmy.world/post/23297450/14043985I'm gonna call it again, it's gonna happen again.
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This is absolutely staggering. I’m still trying to process the fact that senior U.S. officials—people at the highest levels of government—were casually texting war plans over Signal, an app that’s not even approved for classified communications. Not only that, but they accidentally added a journalist to the group chat. And then? Just carried on like nothing happened. No one noticed. No one asked questions. They dropped operational details, discussed strategy, named targets, and then capped it all off with high-five emojis.
It’s not just irresponsible—it’s surreal. This isn’t a parody or a leaked TV script. This happened. They talked about military strikes the same way people coordinate a fantasy football draft. And then, as if to hammer home just how broken our national security culture has become, they celebrated the bombing of a foreign country with emojis. Fire, flags, praying hands, muscle arms. Like they’d just won a pickup basketball game.
What’s worse—what really makes my blood boil—is that nothing will come of it. Nothing. There won’t be hearings. No one will be fired. There won’t even be a slap on the wrist. The fact that a sitting Secretary of Defense might have violated the Espionage Act by leaking sensitive war plans over an unsecured app to a journalist should be a full-blown national scandal. Instead? Silence. Shrugs. Maybe a Fox News segment praising how "tough" the response was.
It’s the normalization of absurdity. It’s government by group chat, with the fate of lives—American and otherwise—being tossed around like a Twitter thread. And the most horrifying part? They all seem to think this is fine. Routine. Standard operating procedure.
This is bigger than partisan politics. This is about the breakdown of basic standards—of competence, of professionalism, of decency. If this doesn’t trigger national outrage, if this doesn’t result in real consequences, then we’ve officially accepted that chaos, recklessness, and emoji warfare are the new norm.
I’m furious. And if you're not, you should be too.
Haha you guys will forget this by next week. Nothing is going to happen.
Could you imagine if this was the other way around? Then heads will roll. Democrats will whine and then move on in less than a week.
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U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
