SecDef shares US war Plan in Group chat
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| How much more evidence is needed for people to see that our government has been captured by foreign powers? Other countries realized our politicians and thus our democracy were for sale. Some of them answer to China. Some of them Russia. Most of them to AIPAC. Very few still answer to us. |
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Surely there is someone with a least a half a brain that your kids would love? |
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This psychotic moron went to Princeton?!! |
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geographic DEI, recruited athlete, valedictorian of a middling high school in Minnesota. |
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Besides the national security implications of Signalgate, the text message offer some interesting insight into how policy gets done in this WH. This is one journalist's interpretation.
1. Who holds the power in the Trump administration? The full Signal chat provides some of the most “real” indications of where power lies in the Trump administration and how decision-making happens—and none of it is pretty. The answer is shocking, but perhaps not surprising: Donald Trump isn’t that engaged in the policy of his administration, JD Vance is weak and powerless, and the only one that matters is Stephen Miller. I wrote earlier this week about how fascinating it was to see how none of the senior officials seemed all that clear about what Donald Trump himself had wanted. The subsequent leaks of the full conversation only underscore how Stephen Miller — who, mind you, is not a national security official who would be normally involved in a military strike overseas — is the one who shuts down the debate over whether the action moves ahead: Miller, in fact, is only added to the group after people aren’t sure of the president’s wishes. Is Mike Waltz, the national security advisor, really not in a position to interpret the president’s own orders when it comes to military actions? He needs to call Stephen Miller for help? This is not a smooth functioning organization. Nor one where the president is sweating committing US lives to action or taking lives overseas. https://katiecouric.com/news/opinion/what-is-signalgate-garrett-graff/ 2) This is not a smoothly functioning government. Lost amid the headline-grabbing insanity of the classified details is what the principals were discussing on the group chat. It doesn’t take reading too deeply between the lines to see that the principals weren’t entirely clear on what Trump had ordered — someone, apparently Stephen Miller, says, “as I heard it, the president was clear: green light” — which raises some troubling questions about how much White House staff and Cabinet leaders are interpreting or reading the tea leaves on vague presidential directives or desires. When the president of the United States commits US military forces to operations overseas there shouldn’t be any “as I heard it” ambiguity. Moreover, the principals here were having notably pointed policy discussions in the group chat — which, under a normal functioning government, would be handled at the interagency level by staff and sorted out long before it got a point where the vice president and defense secretary are texting back and forth. The idea that the highest-ranking officials of the US government are just texting each other in the same group chat you use with your college roommates from a decade ago should raise dizzying questions about how policy is being thoughtfully decided and road-tested inside the federal government right now. https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-short-thoughts-on-the-most-insane-trump-story-of-all-time |
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Yeah, I’m not sure how much I would trust that sitter to care for my children. |
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Go Tammy!
“Pete Hegseth is a f‑‑‑ing liar. This is so clearly classified info he recklessly leaked that could’ve gotten our pilots killed. He needs to resign in disgrace immediately,” Duckworth said in a statement. “Hegseth and every other official who was included in this group chat must be subject to an independent investigation. If Republicans won’t join us in holding the Trump Administration accountable, then they are complicit in this dangerous and likely criminal breach of our national security.” |
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/judge-says-he-will-order-trump-administration-to-preserve-signal-chat-about-strikes-in-yemen
Judge Boasberg issued the order. |
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That’s great. Congress needs to act on all the other signal chats, both classified and unclassified that discuss the American people’s business. This is our info and must be preserved. |