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In the court battle today, the report said, "The White House singled out six stories published by POLITICO, including a June 2026 article that cited a 'senior administration official' who put the odds of the U.S. striking a deal with Iran to end the war at between 80 and 85 percent." This was characterized as some sort of leak that endangered national security.

However, according to Status, that "senior administration official" was Vance, who was "speaking on a background call with reporters authorized by the White House," and had been granted anonymity by the press pool.

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 31 points 15 hours ago

This is the reason Fox joined the walk-out. They know what happened, and that it’ll happen to them, too.

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 89 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

So, was this intentional? Vance gives out some "anonymous" information, and then when it inevitably gets published, they accuse the media of "leaking" national security details, in order to justify punishment?

[–] RidgeDweller@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 hours ago

Seems that way!

Dude, all this shit is so exhaustingly childish. I know it's part of their strategy, and it's pretty effective tbh. Their moral compass is so foreign to mine that we might as well be different species. Out of this world even.

That said, I think they might actually be starting to find out after fucking around for so long. They've fucked up pretty bad.

And THAT said, we can't fuck around with holding them accountable if they actually lose power. We did that last time and we've found out, though I think anyone with at least two functioning braincells could foresee the consequences at the time. Trump and his underlings have caused crimes against humanity and we really can't afford to be squeamish about punishing accordingly.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 points 6 hours ago

Of course. They used the unofficial mechanisms in place to leak info they want leaked to the press, to setup that same press.

[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 19 points 11 hours ago

This sounds exactly like something a traitor would do.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 5 points 9 hours ago

Of course it's intentional.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 52 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

sigh

I’m rooting for a small asteroid to hit the White House.

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I was hoping for a grouping to hit most of the state capitals, the supreme court, and congress too. Is there any way we can make that happen? Like I should pray to some pagan god for that maybe.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Is a grouping like the name for a school of groupers? Still hung up on that word in your comment..

[–] DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.world 26 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

A small asteroid the size of a large asteroid.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 13 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Sorry, they mean a kilobaguette.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Can we just request a full blown alien abduction already???

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago

There is a tiny chance the aliens would think these assholes are representative of our species. US citizens might have voted for these monsters to represent them, but I for one, don't want that.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 1 points 16 hours ago

We can build another one later. Done it before. It's already a mess. The smell has to be terrible now.

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 21 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

If you're waiting for any of this to make sense you're waiting in vain.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

US is a troll country at this point. Just fucking shit up and then exploiting the chaos. Historically, death of an empire looks like this btw.

[–] trebach@sh.itjust.works 25 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

You can tell a pattern.

  1. They want to do something unconstitutional/illegal but want a reason to try to justify it.
  2. They do a false flag operation to cause a relevant problem or point to something tangential to the problem.
  3. They use Step 2 as the reason and do the thing in Step 1.
  4. Pretend Step 2 is a real problem and/or they didn't do it themselves until proven otherwise to anyone with a functioning brain.
  5. Refuse to undo Step 3 unless forced to by Congress or the courts.
[–] TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

As we've seen today with the Politico drama, they don't give a shit about being forced by the courts either

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

They won't comply with the courts, but others do. It all depends on how far away the sub org is from Trump and gang. Anything that was formerly independent usually complies, like the recent USPS thing.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Not a false flag. They're just lying. Nothing about that statement endangered National Security at all. They're just straight up lying. They don't have to do a false flag

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

No need to play 5D Chess when you can just play Tic-Tac-Toe.

Especially given that, as the situation in Iran shows, they don't even have the intellectual capability to play 2D Chess.

[–] LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com 4 points 9 hours ago

They’re too stupid to understand that, which is actually a good thing. Think of the level of incompetence; to plant details for a story you’re going to then use to bar them and the details you planted don’t even endanger National Security.

It’s not the idiotic puppet show out front we need to be watching, it’s the people in the shadows pulling the strings.

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

That's conservatism. It's just fascism for morons.