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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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[–] Sirus@lemm.ee 161 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 76 points 3 days ago (10 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.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 38 points 3 days 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.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Traister101@lemmy.today 16 points 3 days 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."

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[–] NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days 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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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 130 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)
[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 days 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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[–] bingBingBongBong@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago

These are golden, absolutely brilliant

[–] frezik@midwest.social 72 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fascists are surprisingly bad at war.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 55 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] liverbe@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

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

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 58 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 58 points 3 days 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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[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 44 points 3 days ago
[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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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[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 days 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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[–] faberyayo@lemm.ee 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

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

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[–] Archer@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days 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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[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days 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.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago

Good thing they fired everyone who worked in secure communications.

[–] plasmadrone@lemm.ee 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 35 points 3 days 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.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Social media companies just doing the bidding of their owners.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

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

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

They’re just cunts.

[–] Daggity@lemm.ee 23 points 2 days ago

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

[–] kevowej635@lemmy.wtf 19 points 2 days ago

elect fucking russian idiots , be surprised about the results

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 18 points 3 days ago

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

[–] macarthur_park@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago
[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 days ago

Yo what the fuck

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Well, at least it encrypted, unlike trumps bathroom.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think the screenshot removed your link?

[–] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

I think I fixed it

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[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 days ago (9 children)

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

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days 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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[–] NBCooks@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Wow. Just wow.

[–] Trees@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago
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