An under-reported part of this whole thing. Trump was planning to extort $ from Europe for clearing the navigation lanes for them. Even though the US was not requested to do so. From what I hear US products account for only 3% of the traffic thru the Suez.
This was addressed in the chat: (hmm, image links borken now, so click the article below)
"30% container, 15% of global traffic, hard to break that down to US-specific because..."
Needs to be chanted by everyone over and over like we all had to hear "Benghazi"
There were 10 congressional hearings with hundreds of hours of testimony from Hillary Clinton over Benghazi (some of it justified). I look forward to this republic congress applying the same level of scrutiny.
In typical fashion, team Trump looks to change the conversation by focusing on the mistake instead of the crime. Let's not talk about the stupidity of the cabinet members...let's focus on the lower level "doer" who we can pin this on.
As is also typical of the group in way over their head....they spent a full day saying "we didn't share what he said we did"...only to be confronted today with more detailed facts. They really are idiots.
It looks like it was set up by Alex Wong. Seems like a good career guy; expect him to get thrown under the bus soon. There's a small but nonzero chance he added the reporter on purpose, knowing the Signals chat was illegal. edit: OR Waltz was pre-blaming him here.
In typical fashion, team Trump looks to change the conversation by focusing on the mistake instead of the crime. Let's not talk about the stupidity of the cabinet members...let's focus on the lower level "doer" who we can pin this on.
As is also typical of the group in way over their head....they spent a full day saying "we didn't share what he said we did"...only to be confronted today with more detailed facts. They really are idiots.
For f*cks sake someone should be fired for this. Musk is firing tens of thousands of people for no reason. This at least is a damn good reason that somebody has got to go.
Needs to be chanted by everyone over and over like we all had to hear "Benghazi"
It looks like it was set up by Alex Wong. Seems like a good career guy; expect him to get thrown under the bus soon. There's a small but nonzero chance he added the reporter on purpose, knowing the Signals chat was illegal. edit: OR Waltz was pre-blaming him here.
For f*cks sake someone should be fired for this. Musk is firing tens of thousands of people for no reason. This at least is a damn good reason that somebody has got to go.
Besides, of course, the big-ticket breach of national security items, striking to me was the discussion initiated by Vance as to how US strikes against the Houthis might become another example of our European allies taking advantage of us. Yes, pathetic.
An under-reported part of this whole thing. Trump was planning to extort $ from Europe for clearing the navigation lanes for them. Even though the US was not requested to do so. From what I hear US products account for only 3% of the traffic thru the Suez. Just a big publicity stunt to show American Strength and European weakness. And like Israel in Gaza, they probably killed 2 Houthi terrorists but managed to wipe out 50 women and children.
I've learned a bit about the app "Signal" since this occurred. It seems pretty difficult to add someone to a chat "accidentally". What sort of an op was this, really?
It looks like it was set up by Alex Wong. Seems like a good career guy; expect him to get thrown under the bus soon. There's a small but nonzero chance he added the reporter on purpose, knowing the Signals chat was illegal. edit: OR Waltz was pre-blaming him here.
I've learned a bit about the app "Signal" since this occurred. It seems pretty difficult to add someone to a chat "accidentally". What sort of an op was this, really?
Don't attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. 4D chess is their excuse.
I've learned a bit about the app "Signal" since this occurred. It seems pretty difficult to add someone to a chat "accidentally". What sort of an op was this, really?
