4/1/2025

10 Responses to “White House Says Signalgate Breach of Security Matter Closed”

1. Hello.

   Dana (294cda) — 4/1/2025 @ 5:30 am

   
   

2. These are drunk monkeys playing with nuclear weapons. In almost every position, stupid Hitler picked the least qualified person possible. Fundamentally stupid, lazy, and arrogant, always the worst choice.

   Is that by design, by chance, or a strategy, and by who? If he was a foreign asset, his handlers would be telling him to chill.

   Colonel Klink (ret) (96f56a) — 4/1/2025 @ 10:00 am

   
   

3. With regard to the guilt of the administration, the tell here is that all the players – from Trump down the line are trying to push this under the carpet. By announcing it’s a closed case and nothing to see here, we see what’s happening. Obviously this was a major screwup that could have terrible implications for the United States and members of the military. So to see how fast and hard they’re calling it a hoax, denying that there was nothing classified being relayed, and nothing to see here, actually says it all.

   Dana (04c75e) — 4/1/2025 @ 10:19 am

   
   

4. This is my shocked face.

   Kevin M (a9545f) — 4/1/2025 @ 11:22 am

   
   

5. I would not sell Waltz appointment insurance.

   Kevin M (a9545f) — 4/1/2025 @ 11:23 am

   
   

6. #5

   Depending on the election tonight, the GOP might need Waltz to come back and run for his House seat in 2026.

   Appalled (f0dcf0) — 4/1/2025 @ 12:00 pm

   
   

7. @3

   With regard to the guilt of the administration, the tell here is that all the players – from Trump down the line are trying to push this under the carpet. By announcing it’s a closed case and nothing to see here, we see what’s happening. Obviously this was a major screwup that could have terrible implications for the United States and members of the military. So to see how fast and hard they’re calling it a hoax, denying that there was nothing classified being relayed, and nothing to see here, actually says it all.

   Dana (04c75e) — 4/1/2025 @ 10:19 am

   I’m confident that it won’t happen again. Or, at least on Hegseth’s case. (dunno about the other yahoos and I hope they took lessons).

   But, in this political climate, there’s no point of the administration to admitting fault when the opposition is looking for a scalp.

   Don’t know what needs to happen to change this dynamic, as of course we’d want any administration to step up and admit faults, and confidently assure the public that it won’t happen again.

   But, asking for Hegseth or Walz to be fired, after years of HRC’s email saga and routine classified info leaks to Congress and Press being largely ignored is a tall ask.

   whembly (b7cc46) — 4/1/2025 @ 12:31 pm

   
   

8. As long as the Republican Congress remains supportive of President Trump on this, it will remain closed.

   Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 4/1/2025 @ 12:46 pm

   
   

9. Drip drip drip…….

   Members of President Donald Trump’s National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and interviews with three U.S. officials.

   The use of Gmail, a far less secure method of communication than the encrypted messaging app Signal, is the latest example of questionable data security practices by top national security officials already under fire for the mistaken inclusion of a journalist in a group chat about high-level planning for military operations in Yemen.

   A senior Waltz aide used the commercial email service for highly technical conversations with colleagues at other government agencies involving sensitive military positions and powerful weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict, according to emails reviewed by The Post. While the NSC official used his Gmail account, his interagency colleagues used government-issued accounts, headers from the email correspondence show.

   Waltz has had less sensitive, but potentially exploitable information sent to his Gmail, such as his schedule and other work documents, said officials, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe what they viewed as problematic handling of information. The officials said Waltz would sometimes copy and paste from his schedule into Signal to coordinate meetings and discussions.

   The use of personal email, even for unclassified materials, is risky given the premium value foreign intelligence services place on the communications and schedules of senior government officials, such as the national security adviser, experts say.
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   Data security experts have expressed alarm that U.S. national security professionals are not more readily using the government’s suite of secure encrypted systems for work communications such as JWICS, the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System.

   Most concerning, however, is the use of personal email, which is widely acknowledged to be susceptible to hacking, spearfishing and other types of digital compromise.

   “Unless you are using GPG, email is not end-to-end encrypted, and the contents of a message can be intercepted and read at many points, including on Google’s email servers,” said Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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   U.S. officials say Trump is much more upset about the inclusion of a liberal journalist on a confidential group chat than he is about exposing secrets to foreign adversaries. But White House officials have found Waltz’s denials increasingly hard to believe.
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   “The one thing saving his job is that Trump doesn’t want to give Jeff Goldberg a scalp,” said a second administration official. “Despite all of Trump’s attacks on the ‘fake news,’ he still reads the papers, and he doesn’t like seeing this stuff.”
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   Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 4/1/2025 @ 3:33 pm

   
   

10. Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 4/1/2025 @ 3:33 pm

    More:

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    Two U.S. officials also said that Waltz has created and hosted multiple other sensitive national-security conversations on Signal with cabinet members, including separate threads on how to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine as well as military operations. They declined to address if any classified information was posted in those chats.

    Even before the most recent episode, Waltz had annoyed many of his colleagues by seeming imperious and expressing views that were out of line with Trump’s agenda, two administration officials said.
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    Trump’s anger at Waltz persists, even as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe also appeared to have posted classified information into the Signal thread.

    Waltz’s ideological adversaries are pursuing an internal campaign to remind the president that Waltz wasn’t always aligned with him, by pointing out that Waltz opposed the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan and Syria, supported America’s defense of Ukraine, and worked on national security legislation with then-Rep. Liz Cheney, a House Republican from Wyoming who opposed Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

    Some administration officials also began circulating clips on Friday of Waltz making particularly critical comments of Trump in the past. One was a 2016 video of Waltz criticizing Trump for not serving in the Vietnam War and urging voters to “stop Trump now.”
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    Rip Murdock (d2a2a8) — 4/1/2025 @ 3:41 pm