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David J. Sharp's avatar

Add to your list the sheer incompetence of it all. Especially from a party that wants to scrub America clean of DEI (i.e., people of color), trans people, gay people … and on and in. This is white supremacy?

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Sue Connaughton's avatar

Interesting that this signal group was discussing the planning of a military strike, yet who was missing from this group? No one from the military was a part of this signal group. Perhaps that is because every military officer knows it is against regulations to use a non government approved means of communication. So, while the military officials were planning the attack through official channels, the signal group acted as a shadow “chat” group- instead of acting in concert with the military planners?

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Theo VanWhy's avatar

Is this the tip of the iceberg? If these folks are regularly using an encrypted yet clearly vulnerable non-government-approved tool for their sensitive/classified conversations, what other breaches have there been that we -- or even they -- don't know about yet?

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A M's avatar

Check Joe Biden's garage

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David J. Sharp's avatar

“State secrets privilege” — the Trump version, “cuz I said so.”

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Calpolymom's avatar

Marco Rubio is such an obsequious little worm.

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Jean in Florida's avatar

He goes whichever way the wind blows (always has) in his quest for money & power.

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Radha Nichole Smith's avatar

Which is why outside of Florida he is unelectable!

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Debbie Detmer's avatar

Why if people are unhappy with the house reps not listening to them, as it appears there are NO OTHER WAYS OF STOPPING THIS MAN, they don’t rush to their local Republican office and scream for a RECALL of their representatives??? Elect someone else who hasn’t been purchased by Musk!!!

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Hannah Grace (she/her)'s avatar

Because the constitution doesn’t provide a way for us to recall congresspeople. That’s why we never have recall elections on them. And that’s why they have no fear of repercussions until their reelection is around the corner.

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Debbie Detmer's avatar

Ahh but certain states do have a recall process:

Recall of State Officials

Alaska Illinois New Jersey

Arizona Kansas North Dakota

California Louisiana Oregon

Colorado Michigan Rhode Island

District of Columbia Minnesota Washington

Georgia Montana Wisconsin

Idaho Nevada

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Erin's avatar

Not for federal office. Only for state offices. There are no federal recall elections anywhere.

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Hannah Grace (she/her)'s avatar

Yes, many states have ways to recall state officials, meaning the people who run the state. These aren’t the representatives in the federal government.

Unless I’ve missed something…

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Debbie Detmer's avatar

No, federal positions are immutable for now, BUT starting at the local level is where the voices of the people can still be heard. Shouting for recall when your representatives aren’t listening or are afraid to hold town halls or when the representatives spout blather will let them know we have alternatives! We mustn’t roll over. Local elections are our strong hold. If your local representative are ignoring or placating instead of acting against the silence of your federal representatives lets those federal know they will NOT hold that seat next election.

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A M's avatar

Musk started contributing to Republicans when the Democrats tried to destroy his companies with lawfare in revenge for ending the state-sponsored censorship at Twitter. If you don't like the result, just remember that you essentially did this to yourself by supporting a corrupt and weaponized bureaucracy. His companies would have been forced into bankruptcy if the Democrats were allowed to continue, and that is still their objective today. Musk did not purchase anything more than survival for his dream of making America great again, and your actions are what compelled him to do it.

https://x.com/RickyDoggin/status/1890202205770379625

https://x.com/TheRabbitHole84/status/1908969480551805272

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qZl_5xHoBw

https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1847808836234797418

https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1847846282410258876

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Debbie Detmer's avatar

And food safety, healthcare research, transportation safety, work place safety, senior care, mental health care and substance abuse care, combating climate issues??? All given up to help some privileged white South African zealot whose companies are currently existing on our government loans?? Please focus!!!

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Dratticus Revoh's avatar

Excellent piece Chris, thank you for providing us with information that major outlets won’t cover properly.

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David J. Sharp's avatar

Sadly, the gang that couldn’t shoot straight (ours, not the deported’s) is using real bullets.

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Lance Khrome's avatar

As if he hasn't done enough already, Hegseth is absolutely wallowing in dickishness, bellowing away at the cameras about "no classified material released something something", while the WH is admitting the virtual opposite. What, a month or so in office, and merrily screwing the pooch bigtime...oy-fecking-vey!

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A M's avatar

adding "oy's" and "veys" does not make your argument valid... and "screwing the pooch" best describes what the Biden regime did to America.

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Sister Suffragette's avatar

As if Pete Hegseth had dick to do with that operation.

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Christy's avatar

It makes sense to assume that Signal was being used for chats throughout this Cabal of Criminals. It would be foolish to not expect it.

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gigibelser@www.gigibelser.com's avatar

The Biden admin did the same.

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Andrea Tuthill 🇺🇸🏴🇮🇷🇨🇦's avatar

They think a SCIF is where you go to coordinate your stories, when you accidentally add a very well respected journalist to your chat. And, everyone is telling a different version of lies.

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A M's avatar

That's why old Joe had to pardon everyone

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Radha Nichole Smith's avatar

Likely the lot think a SCIF is a small sailing boat used to transport people between ship to ship or ship to shore.

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Donovan's avatar

People use signal because it supports End to End encryption, so even if a third party intercepts the communication, without the private key set at the beginning of the conversation, it is still encrypted.

However, without specific actions taken at the creation of a group chat the group chat is NOT E2E encrypted.

It's impossible to accidentally add a person to an encrypted chat, as they need access to the key, and encrypted chats are threaded not linear.

This means the people in the chat do not understand opsec, do not understand the basics of encryption and do not understand how the tools they use work. That is the greater concern.

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Laurie's avatar

Yes and maybe that’s why they’re so fiercely opposed disclosing the information because They’d have to disclose that They were using this App designed to delete all these likely illegal but at the very least unethical conversations

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A M's avatar

The hypocrisy is unbelievable: that statement actually applies to Hillary's closet mail server more than to anything else.

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Jack Jordan's avatar

It seems to me that we, as a nation, should be well past the point of permitting vague invocations of "state secrets" to obstruct legal proceedings or obscure information that would permit adjudication by a judge who is independent of the executive branch. We have long had a court that was created precisely to adjudicate matters pertaining to state secrets.

"The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was established by Congress in 1978" to review "applications made by the United States Government for approval of electronic surveillance, physical search, and certain other forms of investigative actions for foreign intelligence purposes." https://www.fisc.uscourts.gov/

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bobbie cottrill's avatar

Just shows how unqualified his people are for the job they are supposed to be doing. They are so dumb and that one was probably 🙄 don't know...drunk!!!

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MissNumbersNinja's avatar

He was a DUI hire.

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Kathy Hughes's avatar

Surprised he hasn’t yet appeared drunk in public!

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Andrea Tuthill 🇺🇸🏴🇮🇷🇨🇦's avatar

Do we know he hasn’t?

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MissNumbersNinja's avatar

I caught a bit of the congressional hearing this morning and if I hear correctly the question was raised as to whether he was on the sauce during the signal chat. Not sure there was any evidence of it though, seemed more of a "how do we know he wasn't" sort of question.

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