Laying off a ton of federal workers leaves those workers—and in turn, the US—vulnerable to foreign agents offering them jobs in return for access to confidential information.
Kudos to Reuters for doing the legwork on this story. They sent people to visit business addresses in Singapore, to verify that these were phantom companies.
#kakistocracy #fuckElon #badDOGE
“Exclusive: Secretive Chinese network tries to lure fired federal workers, research shows”
Just ICYMI
#TulsiGabbard was also outside of the #UnitedStates while she took part in the #signal group chat.
“Later in the hearing, #Gabbard also said she was overseas during the time the group chat discussions were underway, but [refused] to say whether she participated using her personal phone.”
#USpol #Trump #Signal #SignalGate #NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy #Trump #JDVance #Hegseth #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5213210-national-security-leaders-signal-chat/
#NEW American Oversight is suing #Hegseth, #Gabbard, #Ratcliffe et al, saying their messaging via #Signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.639187/gov.uscourts.nysd.639187.19.0_3.pdf
…former Secretary of State #HillaryClinton, who was dogged by criticism of her use of a private email server while at the #State Dept in the days before the 2016 presidential election that she lost to #Trump… posted on social media:
“You have got to be kidding me.”
#StillWithHer #ButHerEmails #NationalSecurity #law #SignalGate #Signal #idiocracy #kakistocracy #JDVance #Hegseth #TulsiGabbard #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-officials-accidentally-shared-yemen-war-plans-group/story?id=120106043
Asked if his top #NationalSecurity, #intelligence & #military officials shared classified information on #Signal, #Trump just refuses to answer
"Another question please"
#MikeWaltz certainly knows how to handle #Trump -- blame the #media & blow smoke up his ass.
#Trump stood by his #NationalSecurity adviser, #MichaelWaltz, Tues, calling him a “good man” a day after a report that he & other senior admin ofcls used the commercial messaging app #Signal to discuss secret #military plans for Yemen & inadvertently included a journalist in the group chat. During an interview Trump also said Waltz had “learned a lesson.”
Senator #Ossoff’s questioning of #CIA director #Ratcliffe really was quite impressive.
…At least as far back as 2023 a #DoD memo, also seen by NPR, prohibited use of mobile apps for even "controlled unclassified information," which is many degrees less important than information about on-going #military operations.
There's…no precedent for the heads of #Defense, #State, #Intelligence & #NationalSecurity to be sharing such sensitive military intelligence in a forum that was known to be unsecured.
And, of course…
#Pentagon-wide email recently went out warning about #Signal vulnerability
A Pentagon-wide advisory went out one week ago warning against using the messaging app Signal, EVEN FOR UNCLASSIFIED INFORMATION.
"A vulnerability has been identified in the Signal messenger application," begins the department-wide email, dated March 18, obtained by NPR.
#NationalSecurity #idiocracy #kakistocracy #Trump #USIntelligenceAgencies #Hegseth #Gabbard #Ratcliffe #Waltz
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-signal-vulnerability
#Ossoff to #Ratcliffe: We will get the full transcript of this chain & your testimony will be measured carefully against its content.
Senator Jon #Ossoff: “Disagreements between the president & VP about US plans & intentions would be of obvious interest to foreign intelligence services, would it not?
#Ratcliffe: Yes
Ossoff: And they were discussing the timing of sending US aircrews into enemy airspace where they faced an air defense threat.
Ossoff: Director Ratcliffe, this was a huge mistake, correct?
Ratcliffe: No.
Ossoff: This is an embarrassment.
Senator #MarkKelly gets into the details of the #Signal group chat contents:
“Was there any discussion of targets?”
…Weapons?
…Timing?
…Military units?
#Gabbard & #Ratcliffe answer “I don’t recall” to all. From the article (see pics)
Senator #MichaelBennet is going off! on #CIA director #JohnRatcliffe about the #Signal chat group.
#Bennet: “You’re the director of the CIA, and you didn’t check who was in the chat group?”
…
“Did you know the president’s Middle East adviser was in Moscow while on this thread?”
#Ratcliffe: I did not know that. (again, he’s the director of the CIA)
Senator #AngusKing, grilled #Gabbard on why #ClimateChange had been excluded for the first time in the #ThreatAssessment report.
Gabbard again said the only included the highest threats.
King rattled off the MANY effects of Climate Change that threaten security. Migration, famine, poverty, social & political tensions, etc.
Then he directly asked if she ordered that climate threats be excluded. She said no.
The reason 100% is #Trump’s war on “wokeism”
Morbidly postal.
Ordinarily, someone as malicious and incompetent as Louis DeJoy resigning as the Postmaster General would be an occasion to celebrate.
Taking into account the current administrations determined efforts to appoint only the most awful people to every post, I think I'll just quietly assume that the deterioration of rural mail service will continue at it's current pace (or perhaps even hasten.)
Source: https://apnews.com/article/postmaster-general-louis-dejoy-resigned-738d373d5f6cc1b24d2cd536359c9727
#Trump openly admits he is uninformed about his administration’s planning for strikes on #Houthis. Apparently he doesn’t get looped-in on #US #WarPlans.
Trump asked about his Cabinet officials including #JeffreyGoldberg on a secret war plan #Signal exchange:
"I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of the Atlantic. …You’re telling me about it for the first time.”
The White House has confirmed there was an ‘inadvertent’ leak involving top Trump officials
The Atlantic reported that its top editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally added to a group chat where #Trump’s *#NationalSecurity* team plotted attacking #Yemen.
#idiocracy #kakistocracy #USpol #law #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/24/trump-leak-signal-jeffrey-goldberg-atlantic/
