Atlantic Editor Claims Trump Admin Accidentally Included Him in Yemen Message Chain
On purpose or an accident?
The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, claimed President Donald Trump’s national security team added him in a Signal message thread regarding their plans for military strikes in Yemen.
BREAKING
Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was accidentally included in a Signal group chat with top Trump administration officials, where top-secret war plans related to Yemen were shared.
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So was this an accident or on purpose? Hhhmmm….
The People
On March 11, Goldberg said he received a Signal connection request from a man named Michael Waltz, the same name as Trump’s national security advisor.
Goldberg accepted.
Two days later, Signal alerted Goldberg that someone had added him to the “Houthi PC small group.”
Here’s one message:
A message to the group, from “Michael Waltz,” read as follows: “Team – establishing a principles [sic] group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours. My deputy Alex Wong is pulling together a tiger team at deputies/agency Chief of Staff level following up from the meeting in the Sit Room this morning for action items and will be sending that out later this evening.”
The message continued, “Pls provide the best staff POC from your team for us to coordinate with over the next couple days and over the weekend. Thx.”
Goldberg explained that a principals committee consists of senior national security officials.
The text chain included people identified as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance.
“MAR” (might be Secretary of State Marco Rubio), “TG” (might be Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard), “Scott B” (maybe Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent), and “John Ratcliffe” (possibly the CIA director) also joined the chat.
The chat had a total of 18 people.
Europe
Goldsberg recounted parts of a conversation regarding bailing out Europe, Israel & Gaza, and how to approach the Houthis in Yemen. One part included the person who identified himself as Vance wrote:
“I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now. There’s a further risk that we see a moderate to severe spike in oil prices. I am willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself. But there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc.”
Yemen
Then we get to the Yemen plans.
Goldberg did not provide details of the conversation about the Houthi attacks. He did say it included “information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing.” This is crazy:
At 11:44 a.m., the account labeled “Pete Hegseth” posted in Signal a “TEAM UPDATE.” I will not quote from this update, or from certain other subsequent texts. 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, particularly in the broader Middle East, Central Command’s area of responsibility. What I will say, in order to illustrate the shocking recklessness of this Signal conversation, is that the Hegseth post contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing.
The only person to reply to the update from Hegseth was the person identified as the vice president. “I will say a prayer for victory,” Vance wrote. (Two other users subsequently added prayer emoji.)
According to the lengthy Hegseth text, the first detonations in Yemen would be felt two hours hence, at 1:45 p.m. eastern time. So I waited in my car in a supermarket parking lot. If this Signal chat was real, I reasoned, Houthi targets would soon be bombed. At about 1:55, I checked X and searched Yemen. Explosions were then being heard across Sanaa, the capital city.
Then, the “Michael Waltz” account gave an update, with the other congratulating the defense team on the attack.
“The Signal chat group, I concluded, was almost certainly real,” wrote Goldberg. “Having come to this realization, one that seemed nearly impossible only hours before, I removed myself from the Signal group, understanding that this would trigger an automatic notification to the group’s creator, ‘Michael Waltz,’ that I had left.”
Goldberg added: “No one in the chat had seemed to notice that I was there. And I received no subsequent questions about why I left—or, more to the point, who I was.”
Responses
Goldberg reached out to top national security people on Monday morning:
Brian Hughes, the spokesman for the National Security Council, responded two hours later, confirming the veracity of the Signal group. “This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain,” Hughes wrote. “The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials. The ongoing success of the Houthi operation demonstrates that there were no threats to troops or national security.”
William Martin, a spokesperson for Vance, said that despite the impression created by the texts, the vice president is fully aligned with the president. “The Vice President’s first priority is always making sure that the President’s advisers are adequately briefing him on the substance of their internal deliberations,” he said. “Vice President Vance unequivocally supports this administration’s foreign policy. The President and the Vice President have had subsequent conversations about this matter and are in complete agreement.”
Deputy National Security Advisor @BrianHughes47 on this story: "At this time, the message thread that was reported appears to be authentic, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain."
"The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy… https://t.co/64soHU1MbW
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) March 24, 2025
And more from the VP's spox @wsmartin218: “The Vice President’s first priority is always making sure that the President’s advisers are adequately briefing him on the substance of their internal deliberations."
"Vice President Vance unequivocally supports this administration’s… https://t.co/vOmfqHnJMC
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) March 24, 2025
GOP Sen. Cornyn responds just now
“Sounds like a huge screw up. I mean, is there any other way to describe it?”
In terms of reviewing/probing what happened, he says
“I would hope that the interagency would look at that. Somebody dropped the ball” https://t.co/klRjg7Wj3H— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) March 24, 2025
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I only want to hear one thing from Trump:
YOU’RE FIRED!
Yep. Here’s our internal musings …
CC: everyone.
Sloppy, can’t happen again, and maybe someone needs to be held accountable and/or demoted here for sure.
But I also don’t care one whit about the Democrat handwringing. Just don’t care.
Let’s get our house in order because it needs to in order, but I don’t see any need to respond to the noise of nattering charlatans.
This is comparable to Hilary Clinton’s emails.
People found the classified messaging tools too cumbersome so they used publicly available tools to discuss classified information.
My first reaction is the same as my reaction to Clinton’s email server: anyone who transmitted classified information should be prosecuted, anyone who did not report this should be fired and lose their clearance.
There are fairness issues – that is not what happened when Clinton did this – but those responsible and those in charge (particularly Hegseth) have to be fired.
Vance is a special case. You can’t fire the vice president unless you impeach him. I’m not sure how you handle that.
It’s not remotely comparable. Hillary and her crew did it to the tune of 30,000 different emails, minimum. Conspired to destroy them all once you got caught. Not only that, but the DC establishment had the perfect opportunity to punish her and her staff criminally for that conduct, but they completely gave her a pass and said it was no big deal. That creates legal precedent, so the next person who accidentally or even intentionally does something similar can simply point and say, “she got that, why can’t I?”
1. It is highly unlikely that this was the first Signal conversation these guys had. They probably have not had as many as Clinton had emails because they have not had time but we have no idea how the rates compare.
2. I agree with the rest of what you say, but…
3. This is not a rule designed to set rules of the game for party competition, self enrichment, etc. These are rules designed to protect the United States and Republicans should enforce them even if Democrats do not. All of these people except Vance are replaceable. So replace them.
anyone who transmitted classified information should be prosecuted, anyone who did not report this should be fired and lose their clearance.
Yep. I can see the chatter over an unclassified application, but IF there were actual classified information, people need to lose their jobs.
They were talking about the air strikes 2 hours before they happened. If Golcberg had published immediately the air strikes would have been ineffective and US pilots delivering the air strikes might have been placed at higher risk because the Houthis would have had time to get their anti-aircraft teams at a higher level of readiness.
This was obviously classified information.
Yes it’s a screwup. However, the more complicated something becomes the more likely a screw up occurs. It is hard to idiot proof anything.
I’m wondering if there is someone with a related name they meant to include in the group and the person entering the names just fat fingered it.
Autocorrect strikes again.
That is the least of the problem. This discussion should never have been held on an unclassified system.
Heads must roll.
18 people, many high up in government, and no one thought, “hey that’s weird who is behind this number?” Now the high level officials didn’t organize this call and send out invitations, so the question is, who the ____ did? Sounds like another fat Col. Vindman might be at work.
Yeah, I see the indifference all the time with anonymous folks joining a Teams call. Though, just sometimes, someone actually questions the person to check.
Wow… seriously?!?
OIn confidential calls our policy is that your must log in using your company Google Meet account of, if a customer or partner, on your corporate account. When someone says they are not able to do so (always an external party) we verify their identity, remove them from the call if they are not required, or delay the call.
We also require all wire instructions to be checked through at least two media and now we are moving to requiring all wire instructions to be digitally signed.
We are also auditing all contracts and making sure they are digitally signed and that the signer uses an account that is traceable back to their corporate emial account (you would be amazed how many people digitally sign company docs with gmail accounts!)
These are all basic security practices for corporates. I expect more of people handling classified information.
Wish I could say I’m surprised, but we’ve already seen this clown show, in the first Trump term. Naturally, Mary Chastain tries her best to spin it as some sort of chess move (“So was this an accident or on purpose? Hhhmmm…”) rather than the incompetence it so obviously is.
The problem with the Trump administration is (among other things) they are a bunch of amateur hacks, and this illustrates it.
Here let me help you out. GFY you tool.
“…they are a bunch of amateur hacks…”
The post wasn’t about the Biden administration, dufus.
The people Trump has in his cabinet this term are much more media savvy than in 2016. It’s not beyond the realm of the possible that they were trying to get out some disinformation and picked Goldberg as their useful idiot.
That would be a great theory if there were some disinformation.
Yes, they need to hire someone versed in the handling of classifed info, like Hillary Clinton.
I find it pretty hilarious that when pointing out an indisputable example of national security malpractice on the part of the Trump administration, one gets on this page in response “Biden! Hillary!!”. Lol. Pathetic.
I find it even more hilarious that you think Trump’s team is more incompetent than Biden’s team. The world is on fire largely BECAUSE of the incompetence of his SofS and NatSec teams. Idiot.
And we’ve never had a SofS more lax on national security issues than H. Rodham Clinton, dumbass.
Piss off.
Yes, keep talking about Biden during this incompetence scandal. Deflect away (even talking about Hilary again! Ha.). You do this because you don’t have the intellectual honesty to acknowledge that this was unbelievably amateurish and flat-out STUPID.
This matter – steves59. I say again, talk about THIS matter. You can do it.
Pissant (you don’t mind if I call you Pissant, do you?).
I’m sure this will be traced to some pea-brained Never Trumper dingus such as yourself, who somehow managed to include Goldberg on the Signal channel.
Unlike Biden’s team, however, I fully expect the scumbag to be caught, identified, and dealt with.
As far as amateurish goes, I think you’ve managed to corner the market on that.
Actually this is very similar to Clinton’s email server saga. She was using an unclassified email server because classified systems were too painful.
Other accepted and agreed to do this instead of refusing ave reporting this.
I do not know who decided to use Signal but everyone should have objected and Hegseth ave Vance should have shut it down instantly.
I saw nothing in the messages I have not read in the legacy media already.
And I find it even more hilarious that someone like Hillary or Biden can absolutely compromise National Security to such a hallucinating degree, yet somehow get a pat on the head officially from the federal Justice departments. And then after doing so, everyone is supposed to turn on a dime and simply give a damn about National security. It doesn’t work that way. Hillary and biden, especially hillary, had to be punished for that. When she was given a pat on the head and allowed to roam the woods with a chardonnay, that completely undermined enforcement this about National security. So if you expect me or anyone else to give a damn now, especially over an incidental electronic change, well guess what?
Hang on a second. This guy accepted the message invite even though he knew he shouldn’t have been included and then proceeded to record everything shared and is now blabbing to the press?
Ok, fine who screwed up here and while that’s going on hammer this guy at the same time!
He knew he shouldn’t have been included in the conversation but jumped in anyway.
This “guy” is a MEMBER of the press. {facepalm}
Pretty stupid mistake to make! Find who fucked up and deal with them and while doing that deal with this clown to.
It’s about time people started to suffer consequences for their actions, especially when they are fully aware they should be part of the conversation or have access to critical information.
He did nothing illegal and nothing wrong.
Be glad they didn’t include an NYT reporter – the plans works probably have been on the front page the day before the strikes.
If you mean Goldberg, correct.
If you mean the person who put together that chat? Wrong.
He WAS the press.
And not friendly press, either.
As a journalist he was under no duty to disclose.
This is like NYT and the Pentagon Papers, if they had been overnighted to the Times by the Pentagon.
Jeffery is anti-Trump, but has bursts of sanity. With that in mind, this was a conversation about a military strike that got into his chat, so the real question is :Accidental or Intentional? Accidents do happen, after all, but if this *was* some sort of clever ‘testing the waters’ on Jeffery to see if he was able to be exposed to semi-kinda-classified stuff without leaking it, he failed bigtime.
I wonder if this was intentional, is the administration is testing other journalists to see if they’re actually able to behave ethically?
My guess is that this was a deliberate act by an anti Trump staffer. Could have been State Dept, Dept of Defense or Intel.
The individual or group was probably hoping for an important leak that they could spin like the Trump/Ukraine call in the impeachment farce.
The administrative state will do anything possible to harm Trump and preserve their power.
Yes, just bend reality to suit your immovable opinion of Trump. That’s the ticket!
Unlikely, but if true all involved should have been immune because as soon as someone started talking about anything classified on an unclassified system everyone else should have yelled “shut the fuck up!” and then reported the incident.
I believe that this was intentional to give a warniung to the bad actors in the Middle East
The problem with your question is that journalistic ethics are not what you think they are. He is not ethically required to disclose that communication. If anything he is ethically required to disclose that communication to the public. This is all hashed out in the Pentagon papers case.
to see if he was able to be exposed to semi-kinda-classified stuff without leaking it, he failed bigtime
Seems to me he passed. He did NOT reveal any classified information (so he says).
“if this *was* some sort of clever ‘testing the waters’ on Jeffery to see if he was able to be exposed to semi-kinda-classified stuff without leaking it, he failed bigtime.”
If I were going to design a “loyalty test” to determine whether I could trust a journo, by logic, I’d be testing a journo who had already (perhaps falsely) offered loyalty. Goldberg doesn’t even make that first cut.
It was a mistake to add him but it wasn’t his fault. If the President or someone in his cabinet sent me a group text I’d read it. The guy is a reporter of sorts after all. What are you going to hammer him over? He was invited to a group chat and affirmed then read the chats.
Bingo. That’s why the only adult response to this cockup is to fire the adder.
Doesn’t matter. People who receive classified information (that they shouldn’t) have no obligation under the law to respect the classification. Unless you have signed documentation granting you access to any of it – then, you have agreed to protect all of it. Heck, if I (who does have to protect it) know that some reporter has published classified info in the NYT, I’m not allowed to go visit the site on my unclassified computer, since I would then be tainting my unclassified computer with classified and risking further breach. But Joe Blow? Nope, he can go read it all he wants.
There are no good reasons for anyone in DJT’s administration to communicate with the Atlantic. That constitutes a serious lapse in judgment.
Doubt it was a judgement issue but probably fat fingers and poor processes
Well gee, I didn’t get my email invitation
Even if you did receive an invitation I doubt you’d have blabbed about it all over the media like this clown
Well Signal is a CIA too. This brings up several questions.
1. Why would Atlantic be communicating with the administration in the first place. Does someone have a Contract with Goldberg? Is there a leaker on the team?
2. Is CIA setting up Goldberg? the Trump Admin?
In some ways this looks like a hack job. Possible a leaker sending him info. He many have shot himself in the foot on this one.
I legit can’t believe anyone is dumb enough to use commercial messaging services and commercial PHONES to communicate something as sensitive as battle plans. There is no excuse for this.
I mean really
There isn’t a better way?
Oof. I can. Some of the people involved in this stuff are very dense when it comes to handling classified (and controlled unclassified info). Remember, there are people out there who don’t think it’s important to protect their own information – “No hacker is going to steal MY info; it’s not worth it.”
I tend to believe that it’s all true and that the group used commercial lines because there is a (real or perceived) internal enemy of the administration who monitors the normal communications used. Yes, I mean CIA, FBI, NSA, or all of the above. This is a workaround the old-double-double where you do something foreign professionals would never do and therefore don’t expect.
However, even that precaution failed because a staffer of one of the people in the call is a malcontent who decided to leak the conversation to the press.
That part worked as intended. Where it failed is in the fact that where reporters feared no consequences from receiving leaks in the past, the current administration has made fear of retaliation a serious concern.
Goldberg is no weatherman but you don’t need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. If he used the leaked military operational information, and got caught… it could be jail time for him and financial destruction by lawsuit for the Atlantic.
The smart thing to do (and the thing he did) was to get rid of that tar-baby as fast as he could.
Here is the bigger question
Is the FBI in addition to the politicization the new FBI chief is doing wonderful work eliminating also incompetent now?
If it is how will we figure out who it was?
If the malcontent isn’t found we need to ask
“How do we make the FBI competent again”. We have a great leader there now but that ultimately is not enough for any police force that lacks competence to run a good investigation.
Hopefully it is good at the real job it has but this is the first real test.
If he used the leaked military operational information, and got caught… it could be jail time for him and financial destruction by lawsuit for the Atlantic.
Nope. Not unless he has a clearance and has signed the documents obligating him to protect classified.
I’m highly skeptical that the NAT SEC Council merely uses Signal for such chatter. There’s a good chance this chat was completely rendered using artificial means,
The fact that the bombs raining down on Yemen were not artificial presents great problems to this analysis.
You REALLY think they don’t have a better means for secure, compartmentalized comms, huh?
Well bless yer ignorant heart
That would be “secure, user-friendly, group communication between a diverse bunch of people.” Having seen the train wreck of what passes for n0n-commerical private communication channels, Signal is starting to sound really good.
I have Signal. Signal has been widely-available for the public for years now. Some of my group chats have used it, It works. But if I was a spook, or an operator, I’d be using the latest and greatest app. They also have far better secured and encrypted phones than we do in the general public.
The NSC, DOD, and the IC all have long since concluded the chicoms now have a backdoor into the Signal app. We have the R&D and engineering to quickly replace it, fortunately.
The higher echelons have much better capabilities and means for disseminated info, than the general population does.
My man, using Signal isn’t the problem…or the worst problem, more accurately. The worst problem is using internet connected CELLPHONES to transmit HIGHLY sensitive information. It’s the phone that’s the weakest link. Have you ever used one of our own secured wireless phones? They don’t have bluetooth, and they’re not running Android, IOS or even have access to the internet for a reason. It’s the phone itself that is the biggest point of vulnerability.
Secure from whom, exactly? “Resisters” in the CIA or NSA?
Well, bless yours back. You’ve entirely misinterpreted whatever it was you think I said. If a synthetic conversation reveals the same secret national security action as a genuine one, exactly who has accomplished what?
Probably not.
I have worked with tools used to build classified computer systems. It is painful.
This is why Clinton had an email server and used it for classified information, but after that stupidity and it’s political repercussions these people should have known better.
Clinton had her own email server in order to avoid FOIA requests. She didn’t do it out of some noble fidelity to protecting state secrets. If that were the case, she wouldn’t have been using an outdated email server with expired encryption certificates (there was some reporting that her system didn’t even have expired encryption certificates).
“but after that stupidity and it’s political repercussions these people should have known better.”
Repercussions?
Yeah, these people (along with all the rest of us) knew that on a level playing field, there would be no repercussions whatsoever. Hell, even I’d take that bet.
You REALLY don’t think that there are lazy, ignorant humans involved in this, that will take the easy way to do something?
There are always proper channels for secure information. LOTS of people don’t use them because it’s easier or they don’t want to take the effort to take that route.
Just as one example:
If Brand New Guy on the planning team has his order for a classified phone hung up in the system (and there’s always SOMETHING hanging up in the system), Top Guy in planning might be stupid enough to say “Well, let’s just use what capability he has (which is unclassified) because it is SO vitally important to have him in this conversation.” And away we go.
Another: In Army headquarters at division, and a classified briefing is going on about an upcoming operational deployment. None of them even notice the guy washing the windows of the room, much less that the top of the windows are OPEN, so he can hear everything we’re saying, as well as read the slides. And yes, the Army personnel looked like deer in the headlights when the Air Force guys pointed it out. He was RIGHT. THERE.
It also may have been a holdover from the previous administration. We know that many decisions were made with the input of the PR wind of the DNC (a.k.a. Big media)
indeed.
Google AI’s report on the Signal app to the question “Is the Signal app end-to-end encrypted?”:
Yes, the Signal app uses end-to-end encryption for all messages and calls, meaning that only the sender and recipient can read or listen to the communication, and not even Signal itself can access the content.
Here’s a more detailed explanation:
End-to-End Encryption:
Signal employs the open-source Signal Protocol, which provides strong end-to-end encryption for all messages, voice calls, and video calls.
Privacy Focus:
Signal is designed with privacy as a core principle, ensuring that your communications are secure and private.
No Access for Signal:
Because of the end-to-end encryption, Signal cannot access or read your messages or listen to your calls, and neither can anyone else.
Open Source:
The Signal Protocol and the Signal app itself are open source, meaning that anyone can examine the code for security and correctness.
No Back Doors:
Signal does not have any back doors or data collection practices.
Independent and Non-Profit:
Signal is an independent and non-profit organization, funded by donations, not by advertisers or investors.
None of that makes it adequate (at least without other protections) for classified information. Primarily because you can add anyone to the conversation. There’s no protection keeping it only to those with a clearance and need to know.
“Primarily because you can add anyone to the conversation.”
QED!
Even if the app announced to the entire group, “So and so has been added to the conversation,” it proves nothing.
Witness Heartbleed, the prime example of the fallacy of the “open source” security model. Yes, the code was open source. Yes, it could have been inspected by anybody. But nobody actually ever did.
Well the attack was successful. Let’s sit back and give this a couple a days. The truth will prevail.
A decent human being, recognizing an obvious mistake, might notify the sender then delete the message he received improperly. But, of course, we’re talking about a journalist here. Nothing to do with a decent human being.
Like it or not, a journalist’s proper ethical model is to be skeptical of the operation of government, not a cheerleader for it. We had the latter model for the last four years, and look how well that turned out.
Screw up or saboteur?
This is what happens when you hire a morning show host to be your secretary of defense.
A successful attack on Yemen and rooting DEI out of the military? I’ll take that.
There are several reasons this happened. One, it was deliberate. I have no further reason to believe this. Two, it was a screw-up. I don’t buy this because who in that group would even have his name on any list to invite? Three, it was an anti-Trumper trying to embarrass him and his staff. Of these three, I believe it was the anti-Trumper.
Possible. But the right response was “Why the fuck are we using an unclassified system?! Shut this down now! Who set this up? What other secret conversations are being held on unclassified systems?! I am appointing X to investigate and recommend appropriate punishments and prosecutions if necessary.
Then no leak.
“I don’t buy this because who in that group would even have his name on any list to invite?”
People in Washington tend to have cocktail-party contacts in their lists as well as workaday contacts.
I know mine includes dead people, as well as deadbeats I have sued.
My son made the mistake of examining the contacts list from Hunter’s laptop out of curiosity. MacOS volunteered, “Great, I’ll load these all into your contacts app for you!” He’s been pruning crooked Delaware judges out of his phone book for years now.
I’ve been asked by the International Brotherhood of Circus Performers to cease using the word “clowns” to describe the people responsible for this debacle, as it heavily besmirches certain of their membership. Out of respect for those fine entertainers, I will henceforth refer to Hegseth, Gabbard, et al as Childlike Members of the Administration.
Do what your union says. I hear from another of their members that they will f you up if not.
If you happen to know Bennie The Skull-Faced Boy, you can ask him about it yourself.
When you’re standing at the urinal, you’d just have to look down if you wanted to see a Childlike Member.
Sure guys, sure.
The Trump team was just casually texting around top-secret war plans and just HAPPENED to add Goldberg, one of the most strident and loudest NeverTrump RINOs in existence.
Pull the other one, and I have a bridge to sell you.
Leaker.
Find him and fire him.
Scorch the earth by revoking the security clearance of anyone who communicates with Goldberg or his organisation again. Refuse them access to any official briefings anywhere.
Make an example of them.
Looks like Michael Waltz either screwed up or did it on purpose. One issue that’s disturbing is, should they have been hiding communications inside signal?
Yeah, that’s a problem but exactly who in the government can they trust not to surveil their communications and leak everything?
☑︎ A. Not Michael Waltz.
Embarrassing.
But somebody must have invited him and included him in the group.
These things leave tracks on secure networks.
Find them and fire them.
Given that Goldberg exposed this publicly instead of making it clear that he was erroneously included in the group , send out a memo that any employee in government that communicates with him in any way or his newspaper will be fired for cause,
Lesson learned, problem solved.
Well- I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.
I said that of all the MAGA lackeys ‘the moron’ brought on,, this greaseball maggot was the worst.
The two Maga Bims- Noem and Bondi- were right up there. as was RFK. Navarro-> moron.
Homan. Oy vey – what a klan asswipe.
And OMG did you read about Timkoff.?
SMH
It’s a complete shit show. and just wait until ‘the moron’s ‘ tariffs kick in.
Get ready for a big blue wave coming in 2026.
But hey, I tollllllld ya.
“But hey, I tollllllld ya.”
Give us a link.
You won’t. It never happened.
I’ll bet that signal was developed by and for a three letter agency to hide what they do from the government and then opened a shell company and touted it as the worlds most secure communication app in the world. It probably supplies them with the encryption keys to every conversation and allows them to appear as anyone they want. This might have been called a tinfoil hat conspiracy theory but not anymore.
They don’t have bluetooth, and they’re not running Android, IOS or even have access to the internet for a reason.
Ummmm, yeah, they are, and yes, they do.
Yes, bluetooth is turned off. But they most certainly are running Android or iOS. And SIPRNET IS the internet, just heavily encrypted and VPNed.
Those aren’t the phones US Combatant Commands use. They’re not connected to commercial cellphone networks…they’re not even connected to any cellphone networks. They use SATCOM. They’re not running commercial available OS. It’s propriety. SIPRNet and JWICS are technical intrAnet systems. In any event, unless things have changed dramatically the last several years, SIPRNet doesn’t offer a handheld chat client. I don’t think it has text capability of any kind. This is likely all the reasons why they’re using Signal; it’s WAY more convenient.
No. They are using smartphones for classified (S and TS). They are NOT satphones. And they are contracted through regular cellphone providers. They are locked down and such, but it is what it is.
Goldberg got set up. Here is the message
Vance said regarding the strikes, “I think we are making a mistake,” adding, “3 percent of US trade runs through the Suez. 40 percent of European trade does. There is a real risk that the public doesn’t understand this or why it’s necessary. The strongest reason to do this is, as POTUS said, to send a message.”
It is psyops.
It also could be a setup to dump Waltz. Alex from the Duran was dumping on him pretty hard. Some say his wife is deep state.
For those keeping score at home, the leak was real. It was done by Mike Waltz….Trump tells NBC News.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-stands-national-security-adviser-leaked-military-plans-saying-mi-rcna197944
At least for now, Trump is standing by Waltz (who is someone who should have known better). Trump says he’s ‘learned his lesson.’ I’m not sure why Trump decided to issue the mea culpa through NBC News.
Maybe Waltz will self deport. It also could be the deep state working with Goldberge to get Waltz out. A lot of things in play here. This could be fun.
I know there are some younger readers of this page who find themselves wondering how it is that the Republican party has today found itself to be the laughingstock of the world. After all, historically, it was the Republicans who were thought to be tough on defense and serious minded about foreign policy. So how did we get to a place where a mirror-obsessed Secretary of Defense and a cult-member Director of National Intelligence (among others – there is only so much time to go into this…) got on a group chat and shared war plans – unknowingly – with a reporter? The short answer has already been provided by the White House itself, when it anonymously referred to Mike Waltz as a “f—ing idiot”. A ten-year old will take this description and ask, “Wouldn’t that apply to everyone (except the reporter) on this chat?”. So there’s your short answer: They’re f—ing idiots – plural. This is a group of f—ing idiots that shouldn’t be elected to a high school student council. But here we are.
Enjoy them running “your” country for the next 12 years. It’s now your long-overdue turn.
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