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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

By Jeffrey Goldberg

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[–] [email protected] 161 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Didn't they try to charge Hilary Clinton for using an insecure private server?

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago (8 children)

This would matter if Republicans and their voters gave a shit about being hypocrites. That is not a new thing. Newt Gingrich went after Clinton for having an affair while he himself was having one for instance.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Gingrich was worse. His wife at the time had cancer and he served her divorce papers while in the hospital and then left her and their child pennyless.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Genuinely. I had a discussion with somebody at work which boiled down to "Yeah but Trump stored the top secret documents in an unused bathroom while Hillary had emails in a private server which ended up being poorly secured so Hillary is actually the much worse security violation."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Newt Gingrich went after Clinton for having an affair...

I don't want to disagree with your main point, I just want to say that this is a misstatement of what happened with Clinton. He was being sued for sexual harassment by Paula Jones in civil court. He was impeached for lying under oath and obstruction during that investigation.

The hinky part of it is that Kenneth Starr was originally supposed to be investigating whether the Clintons had participated in fraudulent real estate dealings. When that investigation turned up nothing, he was directed to look into Clinton's testimony about his relationship with Lewinsky, which had nothing to do with the original investigation. It was a massive fishing expedition. At one point they had the FBI working with Lewinsky's friend to secretly record her talking about the relationship.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn’t they tank her presidential bid on this? How she was unprofessional and unfit for office for this? And his Perfect Ukraine Call, his hacked emails, his every other lapse of OPSEC or security clearance issues… weren’t disqualifying? Or was it just what she had in her pants, same with Kamala.

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[–] [email protected] 130 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

[This article reads like satire]

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The one with Big Bird is backwards. I feel like the reporter was the only adult in the room.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

These are golden, absolutely brilliant

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fascists are surprisingly bad at war.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're bad at lots of things. Stupidity is a highly transferable skill.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

#1 thing they are bad at: running a government. Kinda hard to when you don't actually believe in it. 🤷‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fascism is literally all about doing what's best for the IN Crowd, in other words Cronyism, the very opposite of Merit.

If your selection criteria for people supposed to manage anything is who is mates with whom, what's their skin color, what's their gender and what's their sexual orientation, rather than, you know, managerial qualities, it's only natural that they suck at managing things.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Just a reminder that they chose to use Signal for a reason, and those are also reasons we normal citizens should use Signal too! At least try and talk your closest relatives into dumping WhatsApp for it.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

“Powerful start”?

Of course.

This - the abhorrent security alone - should be like, 24/7 on every channel invasion of Iraq TV, but no.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pete Hegseth is smart enough to use Signal, but not enough to not add Jack Daniels to the group chat.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean, signal literally has the same UI as whatsapp. My 87 year old grandma somewhat manages to use whatsapp.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You actually can't make this shit up. WTF!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I wonder if there's a Simpson's episode on this or even an Onion article.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Trump administration is so close to making the greatest post of all time on the War Thunder forums

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

Good thing they fired everyone who worked in secure communications.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

Even my work has better OPSEC on a random stupid meeting with nothing interesting. They review every attendee to make sure no one unexpected is in the chat.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Post is constantly being deleted on Reddit. What is going on?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah. Both on r/worldnews and r/europe. Not in smaller national subreddits though, where people are up in arms about the Europe comments. I don't understand why Reddit would seek to censor these leaks, as they are already disseminated across the MSM everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Social media companies just doing the bidding of their owners.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Usually it's due to many many many duplicate posts.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

They’re just cunts.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Next week: the trump administration accidentally texted its war plans on my Minecraft server.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

jesus christ they're dumber than they look, and this administration already regularly looks like morons.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

elect fucking russian idiots , be surprised about the results

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Yo what the fuck

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It geniuely concerns me that this type of stuff doesn't warrant a meeting or encrypted messaging.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (9 children)

The messaging was encrypted, they where using Signal. The dumb fuck just "accidentally" added the reporter to the group chat 😆

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Locks are just as effective as the people wielding the keys.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Well, see, the thing is that it 100% absolutely positively no-questions-about-it does warrant a meeting and government approved, Internet-disconnected communications methods.

The fact that Trump's entire fucking cabinet apparently disagrees is what concerns me.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Well, at least it encrypted, unlike trumps bathroom.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think the screenshot removed your link?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh I think it did as well. Sorry about that!

I think I fixed it

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Wow. Just wow.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
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