I think it's teeny potatoes compared to HC. This was an accident, an incident. HC knowingly, continually, ongoing violated security protocols; then covered it up by destroying the evidence. "you mean like wipe it with a cloth?"
Using Signal was an extreme violation of security protocols. In no way trivial. If an army major did the same thing re hostile military ops he’d get the boot and likely be prosecuted. This was a clown show (and I’m a Republican, btw).
You were critical of Hegseth before his confirmation. Have you seen anything since then to improve your estimation of him as you seem complimentary here?
the only thing to criticize, that I can see, is the accident of including a journalist in the chat. Very significant accident.
Yes, the accountability works differently at the top. He will be held accountable via loss of reputation, miss out on future opportunities, being left out of the loop on things, and potentially discarded when things quiet down.
Several things blatantly wrong or misleading here. First and foremost is the security of Signal. Yes, the message traffic is encrypted. However, the app and the personal phone itself are easily hacked. It would be trivial for any nation state to do in seconds. There's a reason why the Pentagon advised all employees (ironically) on 18 March not to use it even for non-released UNCLASSIFIED information, let alone classified. Secondly, most of the exchanges display more ignorance of history and current events than anything else. Third, the discussion was just everyone playing to type - the decision had already been made, as Steven Miller reminded everyone at the end. There's the obviousness of using an unclassified app to share highly classified info. Finally, the emojis in response to killing people are disgusting. It's very obvious that no one on that thread is a warfighter or former warfighter.
Looks like you missed the election. Biden has retired 🤣🤣🤣
Name-calling. It's all you've got.
Mega Dittos!!!!!!!!!
It's an SNL skit, but other than Waltz taking a trip to the woodshed, will blow over.
- Was a gift to Atlantic
Does anyone in this whole world believe that Waltz knows, likes or has Goldbergs telephone number in the first place??? Smells!!!!!!
? of course all these top people are plugged into top journalists. That's a given.
The Atlantic isn’t journalism.
This really isn’t all that much worse than what Hillary Clinton did as Secretary of State and certainly nobody made a big deal about that.
I think it's teeny potatoes compared to HC. This was an accident, an incident. HC knowingly, continually, ongoing violated security protocols; then covered it up by destroying the evidence. "you mean like wipe it with a cloth?"
Using Signal was an extreme violation of security protocols. In no way trivial. If an army major did the same thing re hostile military ops he’d get the boot and likely be prosecuted. This was a clown show (and I’m a Republican, btw).
You were critical of Hegseth before his confirmation. Have you seen anything since then to improve your estimation of him as you seem complimentary here?
the only thing to criticize, that I can see, is the accident of including a journalist in the chat. Very significant accident.
Yes, the accountability works differently at the top. He will be held accountable via loss of reputation, miss out on future opportunities, being left out of the loop on things, and potentially discarded when things quiet down.
Several things blatantly wrong or misleading here. First and foremost is the security of Signal. Yes, the message traffic is encrypted. However, the app and the personal phone itself are easily hacked. It would be trivial for any nation state to do in seconds. There's a reason why the Pentagon advised all employees (ironically) on 18 March not to use it even for non-released UNCLASSIFIED information, let alone classified. Secondly, most of the exchanges display more ignorance of history and current events than anything else. Third, the discussion was just everyone playing to type - the decision had already been made, as Steven Miller reminded everyone at the end. There's the obviousness of using an unclassified app to share highly classified info. Finally, the emojis in response to killing people are disgusting. It's very obvious that no one on that thread is a warfighter or former warfighter.
Using Signal will cause both Waltz and Hegseth to be gone.
But worse long term is the dangerous mentality of Vance, so brutally transparent.
His "moral blight" is enormous.
Imagine what horrors await Ukriane.
And what costs to the world from a needless "trade war".
Of course, the US needs to deal with its debt, but tariffs contribute nothing constructive to that issue.
Hear, hear; a great commentary by Christian Whiton!
Wow! This type of rationalization would be funny if it weren’t pathetic.