The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
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This story is so weird that I take it with grain of salt.
Top level personnel added him to a chat. He wrote a piece that otherwise makes them look good. Then left the chat.
That's a fair cop, but historically the Nazis of yesteryear were actually a lot more disorganized and stupid than we give them credit for, too. I mean, the entire "Master Race" thing is rooted in a deep misunderstanding about how genetics and evolution works on a functional level. Like, it's literally a stupid position to have if you understand actual genetics. They were very stupid in other areas as well.
So, while I understand the hesitance to take it as gospel (heh) I think that history shows us it's quite likely that they really are just this stupid. Chaos is a ladder and all that.
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The information contained in them, if they had been read by an adversary of the United States, could conceivably have been used to harm American military and intelligence personnel
So you are telling me you could DEFINITELY have saved innocent lives in Yemen but chose not to because there could have "CONCEIVABLY" been harm done to US military personnel?
As much as this entire clown show raises ethical questions, I don't think anyone would risk to be charged of treason (or "domestic terrorism", that seems to be popular right now) on the basis of a shady group chat.
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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 that time when Donald Trump said Canada should be booted from Five Eyes, and are a National Security Threat^TM^?
This is how the self-declared protector and benefactor of the “free” world treats the actual lives of billions right now. After he fucking had classified documents in his bathroom secrets for sale operation.
That’s boldly generous as “strike two” in American parlance. But these days they’ll just carry right on past three to ~fuck the libs~ because Elon paid for your brain cells to kill the woke mind virus. Right past strike three and nobody will even remember all the kids that died while they polish their weapons and store them for when an immigrant or trans person or coloured person knocks on the wrong door.
Yet still so many expect consideration that they didn’t vote for him. No. Americans are traitors to us all. The inaction at this point is acceptance. Especially considering your history.
I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.
This is going to require some explaining.
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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.
That was a wild read and in no way shocking that they have been and will continue to do this.
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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.
And if we do, I will do all we can to enforce 100% OPSEC
Jesus Christ.
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This story is so weird that I take it with grain of salt.
Top level personnel added him to a chat. He wrote a piece that otherwise makes them look good. Then left the chat.
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.
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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.
Interesting read, and quite incredible lol
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Is it weird that the most shocking thing to me in all of this is that they all act like facebook boomers even in "private" operational meetings? "I will say a prayer for victory," coming out of fucking vance's fingers (and then prayer emojis from everyone else) is just fucking insanity. Like, I expected that behind closed doors they all call it nonsense and act like 4chan dipshits.
The mass leaking of operational information is totally to be expected. Just look at russians and Telegram.
Maybe ot was a staged leak.
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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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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.
The NSC responding there was no threat is absurd. The threat is the presence of a non-approved person in the thread. The fact it turned out he was a reporter who didn’t want to interfere with anything is just luck.
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As much as this entire clown show raises ethical questions, I don't think anyone would risk to be charged of treason (or "domestic terrorism", that seems to be popular right now) on the basis of a shady group chat.
I don’t think anyone would risk to be charged of treason
At some point treason becomes a civil duty. Maybe not this point, but what im worried about is that nobody opposed to the Trump regime is willing to commit treason. Treason is only bad if the people in power are good. If the people in power are bad then treason is a necessity.
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Maybe ot was a staged leak.
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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 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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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.
I think @[email protected] is positing the idea that perhaps this was an intentional disclosure. A trial balloon, if you will.
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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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I think @[email protected] is positing the idea that perhaps this was an intentional disclosure. A trial balloon, if you will.
Yeah, I find the "accidental" chat with a journalist too strange to take it at face value.
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I think @[email protected] is positing the idea that perhaps this was an intentional disclosure. A trial balloon, if you will.
Ah, I see. I don't think I agree, but I get the statement being made now.
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Yeah, I find the "accidental" chat with a journalist too strange to take it at face value.
Of course they didn't accidentally add a reporter to their private group chat - that's ridiculous! Obviously it was aliens who added him without them noticing. They have advanced technology to add group members in signal without anyone noticing.
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Maybe ot was a staged leak.
These guys aren't even playing 2D chess... 1D chess, snakes and ladders?
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Yeah, I find the "accidental" chat with a journalist too strange to take it at face value.
I know others (including myself, a little) are being dismissive of your position, but the reason I think it is reasonable to be skeptical is because of past examples like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy
The Killian documents controversy (also referred to as Memogate or Rathergate) involved six documents containing false allegations about President George W. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard in 1972–73, allegedly typed in 1973. Dan Rather presented four of these documents[3] as authentic in a 60 Minutes II broadcast aired by CBS on September 8, 2004, less than two months before the 2004 presidential election, but it was later found that CBS had failed to authenticate them. Several typewriter and typography experts soon concluded that they were forgeries. Lieutenant Colonel Bill Burkett provided the documents to CBS, but he claims to have burned the originals after faxing them copies.
This lead to massive shakeup of top personnel at CBS and 60 Minutes and ended up either coinciding with or becoming the reason for Dan Rather leaving the network.
