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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 157 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 75 points 1 year ago

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 37 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Traister101@lemmy.today 16 points 1 year 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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[-] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 129 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[This article reads like satire]

[-] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] frezik@midwest.social 72 points 1 year ago

Fascists are surprisingly bad at war.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 year ago

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

[-] liverbe@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

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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[-] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago
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[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 year ago
[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“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 1 year ago

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

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 1 year ago

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

[-] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Good thing they fired everyone who worked in secure communications.

[-] Archer@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

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 32 points 1 year 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.

[-] plasmadrone@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

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

[-] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

Social media companies just doing the bidding of their owners.

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[-] Daggity@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

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

[-] kevowej635@lemmy.wtf 19 points 1 year ago

elect fucking russian idiots , be surprised about the results

[-] archonet@lemy.lol 18 points 1 year ago

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

[-] macarthur_park@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago
[-] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Yo what the fuck

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
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[-] can@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

I think the screenshot removed your link?

[-] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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

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[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year 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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[-] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Well, at least it encrypted, unlike trumps bathroom.

[-] NBCooks@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Wow. Just wow.

[-] Trees@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago
[-] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago
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