a year ago today
~March 15, 2025~
He totally meant to text that reporter 👍 😅
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These leftist are so screwed
🚨💬 INSURRECTIONISTS FLEEING THE STATE/COUNTRY: A tipster, @bitchuneedsoap messaged some of the people in one of the MN insurrectionist signal chats. The user indicated that he/she intends to flee the state because “WE’RE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE”“We’re all fucked” Skye said… pic.twitter.com/Jk5CHmd7Vy— Cam Higby 🇺🇸 (@camhigby) January 25, 2026
These leftist are so screwed. If Trump, DOJ and the FBI…
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a waterfall is kinda like a melted avalanche if u think about it…………………………………………………..
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Signalgate
So you know how Dustin and Suzy are dating (through long distance) but due to Suzie being Mormon, they can’t talk through telephones?
Because of that they use walkie talkies and Dustin uses a cerebro which requires good signal to talk to the person on the other side. SIGNAL. SIGNALS? HE MENTIONED THAT THEY WERE STAR-CROSSED LOVERS TOO? Forbidden love and signals… reminds me of a certain ship. Now we also know season 5 is using signals as a way to signify love. So look here:
STARTS WITH WILL RECEIVING SIGNALS
Ends with Mike receiving signals. Guys. It doesn’t get anymore obvious than this.
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Pressure grows on ‘reckless’ Hegseth as twin scandals engulf Pentagon chief
Joseph Gedeon at The Guardian:
Pete Hegseth is facing the most serious crisis of his tenure as defense secretary, engulfed by allegations of war crimes in the Caribbean and a blistering inspector general report accusing him of mishandling classified military intelligence. Yet despite the long list of trouble and as lawmakers from both parties call for his resignation, Hegseth shows no signs of stepping down and still holds Donald Trump’s support.
The twin crises have engulfed the former Fox News personality in separate but overlapping allegations that lawmakers, policy experts and former officials say reveal a pattern of dangerous recklessness at the helm of the Pentagon. Democratic legislators have reignited calls for his ouster after revelations that survivors clinging to wreckage from a September boat strike were deliberately killed in a “double-tap” attack, while a defense department investigation released on Thursday concluded he violated Pentagon policies by sharing sensitive details via the Signal messaging app hours before airstrikes in Yemen.
The most recent controversy comes as the Caribbean campaign centers on the Trump administration’s extrajudicial strikes against suspected drug smugglers, which have killed at least 87 people across 22 attacks since September. Trump has justified the operation as essential to combating fentanyl trafficking, claiming each destroyed vessel saves 25,000 American lives, though factcheckers, former officials and drug policy experts have called this figure absurd, noting that fentanyl primarily enters the United States overland from Mexico, not via Caribbean boats from Venezuela.
The legality of the strikes came under intense scrutiny after the public learned that two men who survived the initial 2 September attack could been seen amid the wreckage when a lethal follow-up strike was ordered. While Hegseth initially dismissed the reporting as fabricated, he later confirmed the basic facts during a cabinet meeting this week, saying he acted in the “fog of war” but “didn’t stick around” to observe the rest of the mission.
Senator Patty Murray, the Democratic vice-chair of the Senate appropriations committee, called for Hegseth’s firing following a bipartisan briefing on the incident on Thursday. “Between overseeing this campaign in the Caribbean, risking US servicemembers’ lives by sharing war plans on Signal, and so much else, it could not be more obvious that Secretary Hegseth is unfit for the role, and it is past time for him to go,” Murray said.
The New Democrat Coalition, the largest Democratic caucus in the House with 116 members who describe themselves as fiscally moderate and pro-innovation, issued their own statement calling Hegseth “incompetent, reckless, and a threat to the lives of the men and women who serve in the armed forces”. The Coalition chair, Brad Schneider, and national security working group chair, Gil Cisneros, accused the defense secretary of lying, deflecting and scapegoating subordinates while refusing to take accountability. “Time and time again, the secretary has lied, dodged, deflected, and shockingly scapegoated his subordinates,” they said. “He is a disgrace to the office he holds and should resign immediately before his actions cost American lives.”
The strategic logic of the Caribbean campaign has drawn criticism even from those with experience in the US government’s counter-narcotics efforts. Jake Braun, who served as acting principal deputy national cyber director in the Joe Biden White House and as senior counselor to the secretary of homeland security where he helped design and implement the nation’s first counter-fentanyl strategy, questioned why the administration was focusing military resources in the Caribbean rather than on primary trafficking routes.
“I think the use of military force is justified – it just seems they’re about 2,500 miles away from the primary target in Mexico,” Braun said. “If they want to stop fentanyl, I would focus more on tunnels and drones in Arizona rather than boats in the Caribbean.”
Emily Tripp, executive director of Airwars, a civilian harms watchdog that monitors military conflicts, called on the administration to be more transparent about the strike, saying the organization would like to know “what considerations are made around shipwrecked survivors, and why the use of force was chosen over search and rescue when as far as we understand the targets here are the drugs, not the people on board”.
The Pentagon mixed up its talking points, and struggled to provide clear answers about the chain of command for the strikes. While the White House initially suggested Adm Frank Bradley, commander of Southern Command special operations, ordered the follow-up strike in self-defense, Hegseth later said Bradley made the call with his authorization but had complete authority to act independently. Trump claimed to know nothing about the operational details, and even suggested he would not have wanted the second strike.
Compounding Hegseth’s bad week, the defense department inspector general report released on Thursday concluded that he violated Pentagon policies by using Signal to share precise details about upcoming airstrikes in Yemen, including the quantity and strike times of manned US aircraft over hostile territory, approximately two to four hours before the missions were executed on 15 March.
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Despite the inspector general’s findings, Hegseth claimed he was vindicated on social media, posting from his personal account that there was “no classified information. Total exoneration. Case closed.”
Senator Roger Wicker, Republican chair of the Senate armed services committee, defended Hegseth’s actions as within his authority and called for better communications tools for national security leaders to share classified information in real time.
While the vast majority of calls for Hegseth’s resignation have come from Democrats, some Republicans have expressed their own concerns. Senator Rand Paul suggested Hegseth had lied about the September boat attack, saying the defense secretary either “was lying to us or he’s incompetent and didn’t know it had happened”. The Republican congressman Don Bacon told CNN he had “seen enough” to conclude Hegseth was not the right leader for the Pentagon.
Hegseth’s tenure has also been marked by severe dysfunction inside the Pentagon itself, where his own aides earlier this year have been leaking against one another and informing on colleagues in what multiple officials describe as a paranoid and chaotic atmosphere. The defense secretary used a leak investigation – which the White House had reportedly lost confidence in – to purge three top advisers in the spring, with claims they were identified through what would amount to an illegal warrantless NSA wiretap. The episode raised fresh questions about Hegseth’s judgment and his ability to manage the department.
Still, despite the twin controversies creating what those lawmakers have described as an untenable situation for the secretary, Trump has continued to back Hegseth publicly, with the White House expressing “the utmost confidence” in its national security team. Since the Senate is controlled by Republicans and Trump is maintaining his support, Hegseth is unlikely to face meaningful consequences.
Pete Hegseth is under the microscope, as he is facing twin scandals that could see his time leading The Pentagon cut short.
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Signalgate report says Hegseth created a risk to national security with cellphone messages • Idaho Capital Sun
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Pentagon Report: Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages
Shane Harris, Nancy A. Youssef, Missy Ryan, Vivian Salama, and Sarah Fitzpatrick at The Atlantic:
For nearly nine months, Trump-administration officials have defended top national-security leaders who shared information in a Signal chat about U.S. strikes in Yemen, first reported by The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, who was inadvertently included in the group. Officials played down the severity of the breach and insisted that the information wasn’t classified.
Now the Pentagon’s top watchdog has concluded that the information Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared in the chat could have put the mission, U.S. personnel, and national security at risk had it fallen into the wrong hands. The information Hegseth shared included the precise times that fighter pilots would attack their targets, the sort of information ordinarily shared only on secure platforms. If Houthi militants had learned those details in advance, they might have been able to shoot down American planes or better defend their positions.
The Defense Department inspector general found that while the mission ultimately was not jeopardized, Hegseth violated his department’s own policies when he used Signal, a commercial messaging app that is not approved for sharing classified information. The IG’s report, scheduled to be published on Thursday, was described to us by numerous U.S. officials familiar with its findings.
The Pentagon and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Neither did an attorney for Hegseth.
Senator Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat who sits on the Armed Services Committee, said that the report found Hegseth was in violation of Pentagon regulations. “They very clearly stated he should not be using his cellphone and putting this kind of information on an unclassified system,” he told reporters on Capitol Hill.
The report also found that the information Hegseth shared was classified at the time he received it. (Trump administration officials had tried publicly to argue otherwise.) Battlefield information like what Hegseth shared is routinely classified because of the risk it would pose to U.S. forces were it exposed. U.S. Central Command, which is responsible for military operations in the Middle East, had classified the information about the air strike as secret, according to defense officials who spoke with us on the condition of anonymity.
But the report also found that Hegseth, as the secretary, had the authority to declassify information, Kelly noted. Less clear is why Hegseth thought it was appropriate or necessary to do so.
The inspector general’s office, led by acting director Steven Stebbins, also noted that Hegseth is hardly the only official to have used the encrypted messaging app.
What is known is that Hegseth’s communications included the precise times that U.S. fighter planes would attack their targets, the sort of information ordinarily shared only on secure platforms. Signal, an open-source encrypted messaging service, is popular with journalists and others who seek more privacy than other text-messaging services are capable of delivering. Current and former government officials have told us that if lower-level employees shared such sensitive information on a commercial platform, they would certainly be fired and possibly be prosecuted.
The inspector general’s conclusions seem likely to create an impression among the military rank and file that there are two sets of rules: one for the Defense Department’s presidentially appointed leadership, and one for everyone else.
The inspector general’s findings may also compound the criticism that Hegseth has been facing since he assumed office. Critics—including people within the Trump administration—have complained about his chaotic management, which has been marred by infighting among senior aides, and they say that Hegseth has spent more time focused on personnel issues and physical-fitness standards than running the world’s most advanced military. A number of Democrats and at least one Republican have called for him to resign. And now two congressional committees led by Republicans have said that they will investigate a report in The Washington Post that Hegseth gave a verbal order to leave no survivors in a September military strike on an alleged drug boat, leading the United States to conduct a follow-up strike that killed two people who survived the initial attack. Some legal experts have said that such an order could be a war crime. During a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Hegseth said that he “did not personally see survivors” clinging to the boat after a first strike, and he has denied knowing that a second strike could have hit them.
Signalgate became a shorthand for ineptitude at the highest reaches of the administration. Foreign allies told us that they felt justified in their earlier reluctance to share their secrets with the United States, given President Donald Trump’s long history of mishandling classified information. Interspersed in the chat—along with questions about the wisdom of conducting the Yemen strike and details about weapons packages, targets, and timing—were emoji, exclamation points, acronyms, and several words in all caps. “PATHETIC,” Hegseth wrote to describe Europe’s response to threats to a key shipping lane.
Signal is not approved by the government for sharing classified information, which is normally transmitted over approved, secure government systems. Indeed, inside much of the Pentagon, personnel are not even allowed to bring their cellphones into their office; instead, they have to keep them outside their door in storage lockers.
When officials want to discuss military activity, they customarily go into a specially designed space known as a sensitive compartmented information facility, or SCIF—most Cabinet-level national-security officials have one installed in their home—or they communicate only on approved government equipment.
The Signal group chat concerning Yemen turned out to be just one of at least a dozen such groups that administration officials had used to conduct government business, former and current officials told us.
The inspector general’s report examined only Hegseth, not other senior officials in the Signal chat whose actions aren’t under the Pentagon’s jurisdiction, including CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Vice President J. D. Vance, and then–National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, now the ambassador to the United Nations. Waltz set up the “Houthi PC small group” chat in the first place and inadvertently added Goldberg. There are no comparable reviews planned for these officials or other members of the chat.
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Hegseth, a former National Guard soldier and Fox News host, has faced other questions about his professional and personal judgment since his nomination last fall. During his confirmation process, he defended himself against allegations of heavy drinking and sexual assault, which he denied. Since taking office, scrutiny has intensified as he has summarily fired scores of senior military officers without cause, focused on personnel issues such as service members’ weight and hair, and departed from precedent by launching sharp partisan attacks.
The Signal chat also revealed disagreement at the highest levels of the administration about the wisdom of the strikes and—more broadly—how the Trump administration should employ the military and when it should leave the world’s problems to others. Trump and members of his administration have emphasized that the attack itself was a success despite the security breach.
The Pentagon report reveals that DoD Secretary Pete Kegsbreath (Hegseth) endangered the troops and national security by using Signal to chat about the strikes in Yemen.
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The GOP is Losing Patience with Pete Hegseth over “Signalgate”
Washington is buzzing. It’s not just Democrats anymore—top Republicans are privately questioning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s judgment. A new Pentagon watchdog report reveals a serious protocol violation involving the “Signal” app, and it’s shaking confidence in the Pentagon’s leadership. Is this the beginning of the end for his tenure?
🔥 Read the full exclusive story here: 👉 https://truthstreamusanews.blogspot.com/2025/12/gop-frustration-mounts-defense.html
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the idea that mike has been/is going to send “signals” to will that he reciprocates his feelings, like robin describes in vol1
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y’all im cooking up a ficlet for #signalgate please keep an eye out and remain calm
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‘He Should Have Resigned After Signalgate’: Retired Generals Slam Hegseth’s ‘Cringeworthy’ Speech to Top Brass
‘He Should Have Resigned After Signalgate’: Retired Generals Slam Hegseth’s ‘Cringeworthy’ Speech to Top Brass
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Fox News gave new classified email revelation in Hegseth Signal scandal just 40 seconds of airtime
Fox News is doing its best to shield viewers from ongoing revelations about President Donald Trump and his old pal Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in federal prison awaiting trial for charges of sexually trafficking dozens of underage girls as young as 14. But Trump isn’t the only beneficiary of the network’s see-no-Republican-evil ethos: Fox has almost entirely ignored new reporting that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared classified information about a forthcoming military strike over an unsecured channel.
“The Pentagon’s independent watchdog has received evidence that messages from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Signal account previewing a U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen were derived from a classified email labeled ‘SECRET/NOFORN,’ people familiar with the matter said,” The Washington Post reported Wednesday. “The revelation appears to contradict long-standing claims by the Trump administration that no classified information was divulged in unclassified group chats that critics have called a significant security breach.” CNN confirmed the story later that day.
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Notably, Fox chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has amplified posts about the CNN and Post articles but has yet to report on the story in her own right.
When the story of Hegseth’s Signal texts broke in March, she reported that her sources had told her the information in them was “clearly classified” and that sharing it in an unclassified setting “would be considered a breach in national security.” Last month, Hegseth harshly criticized her reporting on the U.S. military strikes on Iran during a press conference.
Fox’s propagandists have ignored, downplayed, and excused a string of damning reports about their former colleague’s leadership of the Defense Department.
Fox “News” downplays yet another Signal scandal from Defense Secretary and former employee Pete Hegseth.
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Pentagon watchdog investigates if Hegseth’s staff were told to delete Signal messages
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Jun 6, 2025 10:29 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s watchdog is looking into whether any of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s aides were asked to delete Signal messages that may have shared sensitive military information with a reporter, according to two people familiar with the investigation and documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
The inspector general’s request focuses on…
Pentagon watchdog investigates if Hegseth’s staff were told to delete Signal messages
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Welche Daten brauchen welchen Schutz?
Schon vor 2 Monaten hat wire.com zusammengefasst, was man aus dem Desaster bei der Kommunkation hoher US-Regierungsvertreter mit der Signal App lernen kann. Und das lag nicht an der App, die für ihre Ende-zu-Ende Verschlüsselung gelobt wird, sondern größtenteils an der Unfähigkeit der handelnden Personen.
- Jede Organisation oder Gruppe hat „geheime“ Daten.
Die Aussage “Ich habe nichts zu verbergen” war, ist und bleibt auf ewig Unsinn. Behandle deine Daten genauso wie den Goldschatz in Fort Knox. - Messaging-Apps für Verbraucher sind für die Nutzung durch Unternehmen oder Behörden ungeeignet.
Diese Apps sollen (allen) Menschen die Möglichkeit geben überhaupt einmal einfach verschlüsselt zu kommunizieren. Für diese Apps gibt es (deshalb) keine organisatorischen Vorgaben, Regeln und Schutzvorkehrungen, weil dies ihre (freie) Verbreitung einschränken würde. Jede/r kann Mitglieder zu einer Gruppe hinzufügen oder entfernen. - Übliche Collaboration-Suiten sind sogar in mancher Hinsicht noch schlechter.
Verlässt man sich auf gängige Produkte, wie Microsoft Teams oder Slack, ist man noch schlechter aufgestellt, da wegen der proprietären Software völlig unklar ist, wer aus dem Unternehmen und dem Netzwerk Zugang zu den geteilten Daten haben könnte. Wire.com führt dazu 2 Beispiele an: “Disney hat mehr als 1 TB seiner sensibelsten Daten über Slack verloren. Und Microsoft Teams ist mit klaffenden Sicherheitslücken gespickt, die Sie ernsthaften Risiken aussetzen.” - Einfachheit und Benutzerfreundlichkeit sind der Schlüssel zu sicherer Kommunikation.
Für beides ist Apple berühmt und dadurch reich geworden. Doch diese Einfachheit darf nicht dazu führen, dass die Sicherheitsfeatures sich nicht mehr beim Nutzer “melden”, wenn ihre Funktion ignoriert oder übersehen wird. So muss z.B. das Hinzufügen oder Entfernen von Gruppenmitgliedern für alle anderen deutlich sichtbar sein und ihre Bestätigung (Verletzung der Einfachheit) verlangen. - Gebrochene Admin-Privilegien zerstören die Sicherheit von Produkten für „sichere Kommunikation“.
Auch das Einrichten hierarchischer Strukturen kann die Sicherheit mehr gefährden als verbessern. Bietet die Kommunikationssoftware eine Admin-Funktion für die Gruppe, der kryptografische Schlüssel und Benutzerdaten speichert oder sichert so schafft man damit den Single Point of Failure. Dieser Administrator mit fast gottähnlichen Privilegien hat die Schlüssel zur Kommunikation und von ihm hängt ab, wer diese Daten einsehen oder stehlen kann.
Fazit: Vor dem Einsatz einer Softwarelösung muss mit allen Beteiligten darüber entschieden werden, welche Daten in einer Gruppe oder einem Unternehmen welchen Schutz durch eine sichere Kommunikation verdienen.
Mehr dazu bei https://wire.com/en/blog/lessons-from-the-signalgate-crisis
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