The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
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Putting it on personal mobile devices allows it 1) to be more easily exfiltrared to their foreign affiliates, and 2) allows them to get around FOIA. I'm sure most of their actions are being carried out in a similar manner.
Even if we ever do wrest power from them, we will have to go along without ever knowing everything they have broken.
Any regular person attempting to get around FOIA by using a personal phone would be immediately fired and possibly face criminal charges.
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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.
TextSignal me the launch codesI'mma make this timeline a lot more interesting
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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.
Remember Hillary's emails?
I wonder if the people who go on about it actually understood the implications of the email server, or just reacted when Fox told them to.
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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.
True, but it also seems totally plausible that it could be real conversation from a private chat. Seems like a terrible way to leak a message.
Yeah, agreed.
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Evidence is not proof.
Making a claim is neither. Show me.
The WH confirmed it to various outlets:
https://apnews.com/article/war-plans-trump-hegseth-atlantic-230718a984911dd8663d59edbcb86f2a
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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.
The one cold comfort I take away from this, is that the civil war against Dogey America would end faster than if the bastards were competent.
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Just think how many countries have live intel on the guy for the simple fact he's an absolute child with a cellphone.
Dude probably installs apps that popup after clicking on an ad.
I'm sure it's considerable. He's never been particularly discreet, and I think Vlad or Ben have the pee tape.
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This is why, when Trump casually drops WW3 threats, I'm over here wondering who here is actually going to try and run this war of his.
They will use Discord
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Radical left camps
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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.
So if the leaks are accurate and sincere, they killed people including children in Yemen known it has no long term value just to look cool ?
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Remember Hillary's emails?
I wonder if the people who go on about it actually understood the implications of the email server, or just reacted when Fox told them to.
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It helps that when the left are in power things run normally, quietly, boring, so that three same news items can run daily.
With this administration every day is a new law being broken.
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Man--you use a LOT of long hyphens--How do you even do that?--The long dash--I can't find it anywhere--Do you have a special keyboard?--
EM DASH SUPERIORITY
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Long press on the dash in your symbols
------------------------------------------------------ I guess it doesn't work with keyboards.
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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.
Just when you think the clown car is full, that there is no way they will get another clown in there, clown world manages to cram another in.
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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.
I mean, you thought it would be hostile nation states. You didn't say anything about accidentally including a journalist in the group chat.
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This is one of those things where if the left had the capacity to practice messaging discipline and media coordination they could repeat everyday for the next two months with brutal consequences for the right-wing administration.
But this will be forgotten about by tomorrow
I would just like to point out that this is entirely correct, but it’s the Democrats that always shit the bed on opportunities like this, not the left. The democrats have very little to do with ‘the left’ these days. Just sayin’.
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It's because the DNC is complicit in the Duopoly.
We keep getting the stick until we elect the "carrot".
The real way to win is to end the Duopoly
Pretty sure your 4 downvotes are from Biden, Kamala, Hillary, and Obama's lemmy accounts.
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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.
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Maybe ot was a staged leak.
I was thinking this. They plan on disappearing journo's, why not start with a big fish for a really fucking good reason. They probably assume that he is as stupid as they are, and after they dropped juicy story in his lap, he would just run with it and publish something with classified information in it.
