CNN’s Scott Jennings Puts Signal Controversy Obsessed Democrats in Their Place With Biden Afghanistan Reminder
“I think Republicans aren’t interested in any lectures on accountability in the military after the Biden administration. I mean, the bar for getting rid of a secretary of defense is apparently pretty high.”
In case you haven’t noticed, Democrats and their allies in media, are trying to turn the Signal nontroversy into a major scandal.
It’s all so tiresome. The left is so desperate to drum up fear, hatred, and distrust of Trump that they’ve taken a nothing story and dialed it up to eleven, just as they’ve done with every other stupid story meant to ‘get’ Trump.
Over on CNN, Scott Jennings, the lone voice of reason, reminded his colleagues that the deaths of thirteen service members in Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal were far worse than their imagined outrage about Trump.
Townhall reported:
During his CNN appearances this week, Scott Jennings has certainly weighed in on “Signalgate,” given how much Democrats and their allies in the media insist on harping on it so much. Conversations about “accountability” took place, and from the Biden-Harris administration’s own top aides, which Jennings was having none of…
“I think Republicans aren’t interested in any lectures on accountability in the military after the Biden administration. I mean, the bar for getting rid of a secretary of defense is apparently pretty high. You can get 13 people killed and go AWOL and not tell the commander- in-chief, and that’s not a fireable offense,” Jennings aptly added, reminding about not only the 13 U.S. servicemembers killed at Abbey Gate in the August 2021 terrorist attack, but also how then Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was out for cancer treatments without people knowing.
Watch the segment:
My view on @cnn last night: No more lectures from the condescending Biden regime on military accountability and national security. Done with it. Throw it back in their face and don’t stop. pic.twitter.com/Xo0UBIdhno
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) March 28, 2025
Jennings made a similar point on another CNN program when a liberal commentator was engaging in a ridiculous ‘what if?’ daydream.
PJ Media reported:
On Friday evening, Lulu Garcia-Navarro made the laughable attempt to convince viewers that this situation was somehow worse than Secretary Lloyd Austin’s catastrophic failures—such as the one that left 13 American service members dead, or the time he went AWOL while his deputy lounged on vacation, cocktail in hand. With a straight face, she actually suggested that if this had happened under the Biden administration, someone would have been held accountable.
“If this was a Democrat or a democratic administration who had foolishly, unconscionably created a group chat to have discussion about a military operation that was top secret, I think, Scott, you would have been the first person to call for those people’s resignation,” Garcia-Navarro argued…
“You don’t have to make up hypotheticals, Lulu, about if this happened in a democratic administration,” Jennings countered. “Let me take you back in time. In a Democratic administration, the secretary of defense oversaw a disastrous military operation in which 13 servicemen died in Afghanistan. Then to try to make up for it, they vaporized like seven children in a drone strike. Then later, the secretary of defense went AWOL and didn’t even tell the commander-in-chief.”
Watch:
Scott Jennings SMACKS DOWN left-wing CNN panelist who says if "Signalgate" happened under Biden someone would've been fired pic.twitter.com/PW8Ct9SRV7
"You don't have to make up hypotheticals! Let me take you back in time. In a Democratic administration, SecDef [oversaw] 13…
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 29, 2025
Democrats and the media seem to think that everyone has completely forgotten the Biden presidency.
They are mistaken.
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Biden was looking at his watch while receiving the 13 heroes at the airport. I can Never forget that.
Well, in fairness, it was cutting into his nap time.
In all fairness, he was not aware of where he was, what was going on, or whether he had looked at his watch previously.
As Robert Hur said, Biden was just “a well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Oh contraire, Biden was never well meaning
Ever
The Goldberg-Signal Gate reporting is a deliberate distraction. Don’t get sucked in. Interestingly, there is a much better story to focus on. Why has the corporate media ignored yesterday’s most explosive DOGE story? Of the major US platforms, only Bloomberg reported the narrative-altering story “Elon Musk Set to Visit the Central Intelligence Agency Next Week.”
Everything is proceeding as planned. Trump-aligned independent reporter Catherine Herridge broke the story on X early yesterday. All that has been publicly stated is that newly confirmed CIA Director John Ratcliffe personally invited Elon Musk to CIA Headquarters on Monday to begin discussions about DOGE and efficiency. That’s the primary information available at this time.
This tweet was intriguing news because, until now, security agencies were thought to be immune to DOGE’s scrutiny. Herridge’s tweet subtly indicates that Trump’s battle against the Deep State has now entered its most decisive chapter. The outcome of this confrontation will have a lasting impact on US history, whether for better or worse.
Allow me to explain.
Was it purely coincidental that Rubio unexpectedly shut down USAID on Friday and Ratcliffe invited DOGE into the CIA the following Monday? Let’s take a look at the timeline of events:
— On his first day in office, Trump created DOGE.
— DOGE’s first project was to address the CIA’s global operations, specifically by managing USAID.
— Odd legal battles emerged over the obscure “independent” Agency.
— DOGE is solely under Trump’s control; Trump is using DOGE to continue penetrating myriad government agencies.
— Once the Senate confirmed John Ratcliffe as the CIA Director, he dismissed several CIA staff members.
— The disclosures regarding JFK were significant setbacks for the CIA.
— Trump declassified the (yet-to-be-released) Crossfire Hurricane documents.
— Yesterday, Rubio officially announced the dissolution of USAID through a Congressional notice.
— Furthermore, Ratcliffe publicly invited Musk to examine the CIA.
Why invite Musk by making a public, fully transparent announcement on X? The real question is why the media is downplaying this story.
Has Herridge’s mysterious tweet from January 19th come full circle?
One can imagine the challenges new CIA directors face when they enter the Agency. Like his predecessors before him, Director Ratcliffe, despite his loyalty to the Administration, relies entirely on the CIA’s permanent staff to provide him with truthful and transparent information about the Agency’s activities. This top-secret information is likely compartmentalized, particularly regarding the most sensitive and complex operations.
Director Ratcliffe cannot access the financial records to see where all the money is going; Ratcliffe can only rely on what his staff conveys to him. This point is the most significant challenge.
However, this time, things are presumably different. Ratcliffe is now introducing DOGE to consolidate all of the CIA’s operations into a single, manageable digital blockchain portal. With DOGE, Ratcliffe can monitor everything himself, eliminating the need to rely on secondhand information.
Consider this: The issue isn’t about DOGE, efficiency, or reducing costs. It’s fundamentally about controlling information. It’s about access to a deliberately obscure, compartmentalized, and self-financing black-budget system that has historically operated with zero accountability, even to its head director. Every CIA director since Dulles has encountered the same challenge: They do not honestly run the Agency.
Entrenched career staff run the Agency. These career employees know where the funding is hidden, control the classified compartments, and can conveniently “forget” to inform the Director about certain matters. They also follow highly confidential compartmentalization directives without question.
Like anyone in the Director’s chair, Ratcliffe entered a fortress within a fortress. However, DOGE can assist him in breaking down these walls.
Imagine a new, AI-powered, top-secret digital DOGE dashboard at Langley that can provide Ratcliffe with real-time information: every dollar spent, every operation conducted, every contract secured, and every overseas asset financed by the CIA. Only Trump’s team will have access to this dashboard. Once installed, the Agency’s permanent staff will no longer be able to carry out covert operations unchecked. There will be no more secret drug operations, unauthorized coups, or backchannel slush funds. Additionally, any efforts by careerists to resist Trump will be reduced or eliminated.
If DOGE succeeds in this initiative, the Agency will essentially become an extension of the White House rather than the other way around.
“Ratcliffe can only rely on what his staff conveys to him. This point is the most significant challenge.
In my company (before I retired) it became necessary for the CEO to create an independent data team to provide information about what was actually happening inside the company. Previously each division and department provided their own statistics, unchallenged.
There was never any bad news for the CEO yet we were losing money hand over fist.
The 1st rule of systems is ‘Protect the system.’
I’m happy to see another Coffee & Covid reader here, but aren’t you missing a hat tip to Jeff Childers, the fantastic lawyer and author of the Coffee & Covid Substack? Your comment is lifted straight from his Friday, 3/28 post. Credit where credit is due
If Goldrube published sooper secret war plans he illegally pilfered from a sooper secret war plan chat, shouldn’t Gildrube be prosecuted?
Can’t do it. Settled case law for journalists. He didn’t pilfer it, he was handed it.
“he was handed it.”
No he wasn’t. That would require intent and consent of those in attendence, and it wasn’t given. The others didn’t even know he was there.
Goldrube illegally pilfered from a secure chat he had no business attending, and he knew it, but attended any ways, then published the sooper secret war plans because Goldrube was just so darn concerned about command competence, troop safety, and readiness? Horsecrap. He committed a crime, and should be prosecuted.
“Democrats and the media seem to think that everyone has completely forgotten the Biden presidency.”
To be fair, Biden himself has forgotten half of it (the other half he was unconscious).
If this was Japan the entire Biden clique would have resigned at one time or another to accept responsibility and express contrition for their many, many mistakes, It’s a pity there are few honorable people in politics and none in the democratic party. They prefer to just brazen things out emboldened by the lap dog “press” who minimize issues when they can not just outright hide them.
Hillary’s bathroom server is a MUCH more congruent analogy for Signalgate than the Afghanistan debacle or Milley’s treason. Especially when the enemy sets herself up by phrasing it as ““If this was a Democrat or a Democratic administration,” not even limiting it to the Biden years at all. But I guess it’s just not fashionable anymore for Republicans to bring up Hillary.
As I’ve commented before, I officially no longer care. The Dems taught me this. Their agenda is of paramount importance. Nothing is allowed to stand in the way of its execution. If we intend to win this fight, we need to conduct ourselves as ruthlessly. Where good people are concerned, we should not abandon them for mistakes. Only bad apples and the truly hapless should be discarded.
BTW, I believe Al Franken was sacrificed to “me too” in hopes that his ruin would encourage Republicans to ruin some of their own. This failed spectacularly, and was probably that last time the Dems ditched someone who they would have likely rather kept in office.
“BTW, I believe Al Franken was sacrificed to “me too” in hopes that his ruin would encourage Republicans to ruin some of their own.”
Cart/horse.
Progressives pounced on “me too” as a vehicle for getting rid of Republican court appointments.
They neglected to realize that if you aim at sexual misbehavior, the target-rich environment you find is hopelessly clogged with Democrats.
Apocryphal pubic hairs on soda cans and boofs in yearbooks pale aside actual casting couch rapes and child molestations (RIP Michelle Trachtenberg)..
I don’t think anyone was sorry to see that troglodyte go. One of the most unfunny comedians this side of Chevy Chase. Yes he was sacrificed for the greater good.
This is reminiscent of the kissing senator republican bob packwood who resigned in 1995 before being expelled despite being a huge advocate of woman’s rights (and woman’s lips).
Hit submit prematurely, and LI won’t allow a reply to my own “unapproved comment:(??)
Franken was collateral damage. He was far from the first Democrat taken down, but he may have been the most costly. His misdeeds were published at exactly the wrong time. Democrats had to sacrifice him because the hypocrisy would have been too obvious to gaslight, even for them.
Anybody clutching his or her pearls over this who was fine with Obama’s SecState running tens of thousands of emails through an unsecure server needs to shut up and sit this one out.
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