Friday, March 28, 2025. Details continue to emerge about the security breach while outrage mounts. Donald Chump stupidly thinks he can ignore it and the Congressional idiot who was the face of 'uncommitted' remains uncommitted to the American people.
Let's start with Rachel Maddow last night on MSNBC.
Convicted Felon Donald Chump is cratering in the polls. And that's especially obvious when it comes to the security breach and his ineptitude in responding to it. Another segment from last night's THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW.
She cites the YOUGOV survey conducted on March 25th:
How serious of a problem is it that Trump officials shared military plans with a journalist in a chat app?
Very/somewhat serious 76%
Not very/not serious at all 13%
This is a very serious issue which is why we've covered it and two Congressional hearings on the topic.
Donald Chump doesn't get how serious this is and we'll be going into that in a moment.
But let's take a moment to note another idiot. She is a Socialist who spent years and years posing as a Democrat -- something all Justice "Democrats" have done. After she worked to tank Kamala Harris' presidential campaign, she had a fit that some people -- including us -- were talking about her being a Socialist. After endorsing a fellow Socialist for Mayor of NYC -- her business because NYC is in the heart of Michigan (that was sarcasm) -- ahe stopped the pretense and is finally out and proud.
Rashida Tlaib, congratulations on stepping out -- or being forced out of -- your political closet.
Rashida's attacked the security breach . . . Well attacked those people who take it seriously.
A national security breach that goes to how team Trump puts us at risk on any and every security matter wasn't an issue to her. She felt that was a distraction and we needed to be focused on who was killed in the bombings
Now she could explore that topic in a hearing of her own -- even a field hearing -- if it really mattered to her.
The bigger question though is why, time and again, when it comes to the American people, Rashida's not there.
She's (for now) a member of the US Congress. A member of the House of Representatives -- the American people's House. But she's not there for us.
She makes it clear on her government website where she ignores the security breach but does have a link on her page to Twitter and she's remained on Twitter and refused to go on BLUESKY. Shed rather give Alien Musk traffic -- at a time when people are fleeing that platform she continues to give her consent and approval to Musk and his Twitter.
The American people think this is a serious issue (and it is). But Rashida's only public comment on the issue has been to dismiss concerns over the breach and insist that we are focused on the wrong thing.
Few Republicans in Congress are being as craven as she is.
Something to think about over the weekend.
The security breach has already resulted in
questioning during two Congressional hearings -- the Senate Intelligence Committee and the House Intelligence Committee. Many are calling for
accountability. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is the name most
often cited when people discuss firing. Senator Tammy Duckworth told
Rachel Maddow on MSNBC Wednesday night that everyone of the government
officials in the Signat chat risked the safety of those Americans
carrying out the bombing mission that Donald Chump ordered and that
every official should be fired. Don't disagree with her on that.
Some
are of the opinion that despite Donald solidifying his trashy image via
a 'reality' show that required him to say "You're fired," he's too much
of a weak sister to actually fire someone when it's not part of a TV
show. But Hegseth shouldn't get too comfortable with that because he
and others are in the midst of another security scandal. Michael Luciano (MEDIAITE) reports:
Passwords
and private information belonging to top national security officials in
the Trump administration have been found online, according to the
German publication Der Spiegel.
In a stunning
report published on Wednesday, the paper said its journalists “used
commercial people search engines along with hacked customer data that
has been published on the web.” Those whose information was compromised
include Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Director of National
Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
“Private
contact details of the most important security advisers to U.S.
President Donald Trump can be found on the internet,” the outlet wrote.
“DER SPIEGEL reporters were able to find mobile phone numbers, email
addresses and even some passwords belonging to the top officials.”
Again, these Intel nominees were never qualified for their jobs. And that just raises more questions.
Will we next learn that all three responded with their bank information to an e-mail reading:
Dear sir or ma'am,
I
am an exiled prince in Niger and my money is currently in limbo unless I
can get it out of this country. This is a dire emergency and you must
not breathe word of this to anyone for their are people in this country
working to harm me. If you please will give me your bank account
numbers, I will transfer $125,000 into your account and you keep may
$25,000 of that just for assisting me.
Trump
administration officials accidentally shared planning for combat action
with a reporter, and it's exactly the type of failure that military
leaders have long feared — one that comes from sloppy OPSEC and
smartphones.
Using Signal, a
popular secure messaging app that is encrypted though not impenetrable,
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz,
Vice President JD Vance, and other top officials discussed key details
related to pending US airstrikes against Houthi militants in Yemen,
including weather, assets involved, and timing.
What the group failed to recognize is that one chat member was actually the top editor of The Atlantic magazine.
"We
are currently clean on OPSEC," Hegseth wrote in the group chat just
below an operational timeline that identified the types of planes
involved and strike start times.
Two OPSEC violations are apparent from the chat.
Most
obviously, sensitive military topics were openly discussed with an
individual without a "need to know" and presumably without an
appropriate security clearance. Second, that operational information was
transmitted over an unsecured line, vulnerable to enemy hacking.
US House Rep Jim Himes is the Ranking Member on the House Intelligence Committee and, on Wednesday, he noted, "And they know that there's only one response to a mistake of this
magnitude: You apologize, you own it and you stop everything until you
can figure out what went wrong and how it might not ever happen again.
But that's not what happened. The Secretary of Defense responded with a
brutal attack on the reporter who did not ask to be on the Signal
chain. Yesterday, our former colleague Michael Waltz did the same in
the White House and then went on FOX to call Jeff Goldberg a loser. "
Instead of getting what we're owed, we continue to get lies and attacks from the administration. We The People continue to get lies and pointed fingers at others. Jennifer Bowers Bahney (RAW STORY) reports:
Secretary
of Defense Pete Hegseth, who's in the middle of the Signal messaging
app scandal that inadvertently revealed an impending military strike to a
journalist, made an angry post on social media Wednesday once again
denying that "war plans" were revealed.
"So, let’s me get this straight," Hegseth began on Wednesday.
"The
Atlantic released the so-called 'war plans' and those 'plans' include:
No names. No targets. No locations. No units. No routes. No sources. No
methods. And no classified information. Those are some really s----y war
plans."
We've got a serious problem here.
Is he drunk? Seriously, is he drunk?
If
not, he's either the worst liar or the dumbest person on the face of
the planet. You are texting the time that strike will occur, shortly
before it is carried out. That is top secret, that is considered
classified at that time. At the time, pay attention and put down the
shot glass, you texted, the mission hadn't been carried out yet. As
Tammy Duckworth explained to Rachel Maddow on Wednesday, that could have
led to American's flying the bombing mission getting targeted. The
details revealed also threaten whomever was the Intel asset on this.
Stream the video below.
This
is not minor though Hegseth continues to act as though it is. This
goes not just to the fact that he's not qualified for this position, it
also goes to the reality that he's not mature enough for the position.
On
the latter, that should have been obvious to all, when he was trying to
get confirmed and, in a desperate big like no one has ever tried
before, Little Petey enlisted his mother to fight his confirmation battle. From December 9th, Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Mama Hegseth"
Back in December, that was the clue to America but few wanted to grab it. When
you're a grown ass man of 44 years (45 in June) and you can't get
through your own confirmation hearing without sending Mommy on a media
blitz, you're not mature enough to hold the office. Little Petey
demonstrates his lack of immaturity right now by lying about what went
down, by attacking journalists Jeffrey Goldberg and by acting as though
this security breach is the fault of everyone else except for him.
Brian
and Penelope Hegseth, you failed in raising your son. And that would
be your own damn business and I wouldn't comment but your son is the
Secretary of Defense and your failure puts us all at risk.
The security breach is a very serious issue. Senator Martin Heinrich's office issued the following:
Heinrich slams Trump Administration intelligence officials for lying under oath: “Incredibly disappointing”
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich
(D-N.M.), member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
appeared on MSNBC with Jen Psaki yesterday, where he reacted to Trump
Administration intelligence officials lying under oath to his question during Tuesday’s hearing on whether intelligence officials’ Signal group chat included precise information on weapons packages, targets, or timing.
Jen Psaki: Senator, I know you’ve been living this,
trying to get more information, trying to ask very valid legitimate
questions. But you hadn’t seen those text messages until this morning.
Senator Heinrich: Nope, just like everyone else.
Psaki: What did you think when you read them?
Heinrich: Well, I thought, how can you come and
testify in front of Congress, and not think, given everything that's
gone on, that the details would come out? When you have the Director of
the CIA, when you have the DNI, just brazenly lying to Congress, how
could they not think that this wasn't going to come out at some point,
or that we wouldn't get to the bottom of it? It is deeply disappointing.
On Trump Administration officials lying under oath to Heinrich’s question about contents of Signal chat:
Psaki: Secretary Hegseth also lied about this. They
[Directors Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe] weren't the only people
lying about it. They were sitting there under oath testifying in
Congress.
Heinrich: Yes.
Psaki: It was a text chain they were on. Hard to imagine they didn't remember those details. Did they lie to you?
Heinrich: Yeah, they did lie to us. It's hard to
imagine for me that they didn't all go over the text chain the night
before. Or in the run up to even the morning, knowing that this was in
the news already. So, it's incredibly disappointing to see how
cavalierly they misrepresented this. And obviously I hadn't seen those
parts of the text chain at that point. But I suspected, and what we
would normally really be concerned about showing up outside of what we
call the high side, the secure communications infrastructure that we
use. Are these operational details? Because that is what can put service
members at risk, and this is a case where real lives are on the line.
There were intelligence details in these exchanges that may well have
put peoples' lives at risk.
Psaki: Yeah, the General is making this point that
they're still at risk now. And this now gives the Houthis a better
understanding of how these communications happen.
Heinrich: That’s exactly right.
On an expedited Inspector General investigation into the situation:
Psaki: Let me ask you: Senator Roger Wicker said
today that the Senate Armed Services Committee is seeking an expedited
IG investigation. He's a Republican senator. We haven't heard that from a
lot of other Republican senators or any others that I'm aware of
publicly at this point, but you talk to them privately. Do you think
more could come out? Is there more who might call for that?
Heinrich: I hope. I really hope more [Republican
senators] do come out, because the private conversations are: People
know this was wrong. People know that it was reckless. No one wants to
defend this in the public. Even if you watch the Worldwide Annual Threat
Assessment hearing in its totality, you didn't hear Republicans coming
to the defense of this kind of recklessness. We'll just have to see. You
know, there's this palpable fear of saying anything critical of Team
Trump. And to his credit, I think Roger Wicker did what anyone would
normally do in this situation, which is just to say, “Let's get to the
bottom of it.”
Psaki: That's what IGs are supposed to do. Hence why
it's so problematic that a number of them were fired. Senator, thank
you so much, and thank you for continuing to press on this issue. I know
there's many, many more questions out there.
Heinrich: We're not done yet.
A recap of Tuesday’s hearing on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence can be found here.
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Of course, not everyone is taking it seriously -- such as the White House -- such as the White House spokesperson. She's
not lying to save herself so who knows why she's lying but the porcine
spokesperson for the White House is stomping her hooves and digging in
with the lies.
White
House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt raged against The Wall Street
Journal on Wednesday, first in a social media post and then at an
afternoon press briefing.
In an editorial over the leaked Signal groupchat
in which senior Trump administration officials discussed plans for an
attack on Yemen’s Houthi rebels, the Journal took aim at peace envoy
Steve Witkoff.
“A real
security scandal is that the Signal chat apparently included Steve
Witkoff, Mr. Trump’s envoy to wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Press
reports say Mr. Witkoff was receiving these messages on the commercial
app while in Moscow,” observed the Journal. “This is security
malpractice. Russian intelligence services must be listening to Mr.
Witkoff’s every eyebrow flutter. This adds to the building perception
that Mr. Witkoff, the President’s friend from New York, is out of his
depth in dealing with world crises.”
The
editorial also singled out Vice President JD Vance for criticism,
arguing that his position in the chat will lead American allies to
believe “hat officials at the top of the Trump Administration think the
U.S. relationship isn’t based on common interests or values,” but is
instead “closer to a protection racket.”
On Wednesday morning, Leavitt took to X to dispute the Journal‘s characterization of Witkoff’s actions.
Fat
Piggy then oinked-oinked that this was "fake news." Fake news?
Karoline, fake news is your reported weight. Maybe that spooked her?
The thought that they'd make her go on the record about her actual
weight? Something spooked the liar and she fled:
White
House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt unexpectedly ended a news
conference Wednesday after fielding tough questions about the government
Houthi attack plan leak for the first time.
Leavitt,
who gave a surprise glimpse into her family life, lost her temper and
snapped at CNN's Kaitlan Collins during a volatile press conference.
[. . .]
The
conference, which was the first held since the massive Signal war plans
scandal, lasted slightly under 25 minutes. She spoke for under 10
minutes before answering a handful of questions from reporters then
abruptly leaving.
A handful of viewers noticed her sudden departure on X.
"Karoline
Leavitt got scared and just ran off the stage after getting grilled by
reporters about the signal chat," one user wrote.
Another added: "Karoline Leavitt practically ran out of that press conference after getting hammered by reporters."
She
just fled, on a swinish tear, she just fled from the bright lights and
cameras. Remember, the media's part of the "sunlight [that] is said to
be the best of disinfectants" against government corruption as cited by
former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandies.
Next
question in the chamber for Karoline: Did she marry a man 32 years
older in the hopes that age would have blurred his vision and softened
her hoggish looks?
The
scandal continues and actually enlarges due to the administration's
refusal to address it. Had Chump, for example, announced two days ago,
"Hegseth has given me his resignation letter," the intensity of the
scandal might have faded. But the inaction just makes it continue to
grow. It was wrong and lies from the administration do not erase that.
In fact, the lies only inflame people because even someone with no
knowledge of classified or top secret grasps that you do not give out
the target and the time of a target for an impending strike in a
non-secure chat. Everyone grasps that.
In
the British Parliament, the Signal group chat controversy prompted a
hard question on Wednesday for the U.K. leader from opposition lawmaker
Ed Davey: Can Britain still trust America with its secrets?
"Will
the prime minister make it clear that he will order an urgent review
into the security of the intelligence that we share with the United
States?" Davey asked during a session in the House of Commons.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer pushed back.
"We
work with the United States on a daily basis," Starmer said. "Unpicking
our relations with the U.S. for defense and security is neither
responsible nor serious."
Newspaper and news website headlines across the continent, however, have not.
Chump looks like an idiot on the global stage because that's what he is.
The
security breach has not been addressed. All these days after it was
revealed. And remember it was revealed by Jeffrey Goldberg who was
brought in on the chat. If he hadn't revealed it, would the
administration know about it even now?
Probably not.
And day after day, no action has been taken.
When you hear the phrase "fiddling while Rome burns," this is what they're talking about.
Chump looks as ineffective and as indecisive as Emperor Nero.
He's made himself a joke.
The security breach took place March 13th,
March 14th and March 15th. Grasp that Jeffrey Goldberg was wrongly
included on all of those group texts and that the Intel people had no
clue.
Chump's
administration should have never let it happen. Having allowed it to
happen via gross negligence, they didn't realize it. Three days they
kept Goldberg 'in the loop,' so to speak, on conversations no one
outside the government should have been in on. And then they didn't
even realize it for days and days. March 24th, he published his account
in THE ATLANTIC. All these days later, it has still not been address.
This
was a breach of security. It was also an intelligence failure because
whatever you call the discussions -- top secret, classified, extra
butter on the pop corn -- the White House does not want to be having
conversations that they include the press on without the knowledge of
the administration.
This was an intelligence failure.
What if Goldberg hadn't written the story? Think about that. He might still be in the group chat and hearing who knows what.
This security breach and Intel failure is something that the administration should have discovered all on their own.
Yesterday, Senator Jack Reed's office issued the following:
WASHINGTON, DC -- Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI) sent a letter to the Acting Inspector General of the Department of Defense
regarding their bipartisan concern and interest about the Signal group
chat involving senior members of the Trump Administration.
U.S. Department of Defense – Office of Inspector General
4800 Mark Center Drive
Alexandria, VA 22350-1500
Dear Mr. Stebbins,
On March 11, 2025, Jeffrey Goldberg, the Editor-in-chief of The
Atlantic, was reportedly included on a group chat on the commercially
available communications application called Signal, which included
members of the National Security Council. This chat was alleged to have
included classified information pertaining to sensitive military actions
in Yemen. If true, this reporting raises questions as to the use of
unclassified networks to discuss sensitive and classified information,
as well as the sharing of such information with those who do not have
proper clearance and need to know.
Accordingly, we ask that you conduct an inquiry into, and provide us with an assessment of, the following:
1. The facts and circumstances surrounding the above referenced
Signal chat incident, including an accounting of what was communicated
and any remedial actions taken as a result;
2. Department of Defense (DOD) policies and adherence to policies
relating to government officers and employees sharing sensitive and
classified information on non-government networks and electronic
applications;
3. An assessment of DOD classification and declassification
policies and processes and whether these policies and processes were
adhered to;
4. How the policies of the White House, Department of Defense,
the intelligence community, and other Departments and agencies
represented on the National Security Council on this subject differ, if
at all;
5. An assessment of whether any individuals transferred
classified information, including operational details, from classified
systems to unclassified systems, and if so, how;
6. Any recommendations to address potential issues identified.
Please include a classified annex to these responses as needed.
The Senate Armed Services Committee will work with you to schedule a
briefing immediately upon completion of your review.
