... They used a hotels printer to print sensitive documents???
Brother in Christ. Yes, good, network printers are a bastion of security.
Little old me could have legitimately intercepted that if they printed it while connected to a hotel wifi.
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Don't copiers have hdds that copy everything scans and printed into them?
Many do have internal memory. Agencies that need to copy sensitive documents will have them removed. If that is not possible, copyer goes on a list when it is procured so that when it is sold or trashed someone has to go take the drive out and shred it.
Opsec so clean you could defund your public media
The level of ineptitude is almost as great as the level of corruption.
Look, I'm frankly shocked that the ONLY thing of real sensitive value left there was names and numbers of members there.
This is the group that accidentally brought a rando in on a secret channel for a military strike, at this point I would have been less shocked if the printer had a stack of F-35 blueprints.
Exceedingly competent work, as always.
“in honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin.”
Lovely.
There's gotta be someone working at that hotel that could off Putin, how hard could it be?
Say there were one person willing, and able to do it. Would it have been beneficial for the state of the world? This is a genuine question
Like, yes, obviously it likely would have been beneficial for Ukraine and possibly even the Russian people (in the long run), but it would also break the promise of diplomatic safety, and would that lead to better outcomes for the world long term?
"it would be so embarrassing to say my boss' name wrong."
Is the silent “h” necessary in the phonetic pronunciation of Poo-tin’s name?
Here's my prediction of what will happen
- This will slowly (or rapidly) make its waves through the papers until it's being brought up and sensationalized by Instagram and TikTok influencers. Some girl will go viral talking about it overlayed over a shitty screenshot of the article.
- The comments will be full of people continuing to shout about Epstein and Gaza in the comments (not that I necessarily disagree), mixed in with right wing bots calling it a lunch menu (private accounts with thousands of followers, generic pictures, and Jesus captions)
- Trump will boast about how we have THE BESTEST national security
- The federal government will devote all their energy into finding out who this guest is, down to subpoenas and/or extortion, assuming the hotel doesn't immediately capitulate
- By this point half the population will have forgotten about it, but Trump won't be happy until everyone is silent. He will do something big to distract from this + the Epstein files, like sending the military into Mexico
- Rinse and repeat
Something something buttery males
Clowns gonna clown, right?
People get arrested for less than this.
We can just stop pretending we hold our government leaders and law enforcement to any standard of professionalism at all.