Summary
Trump appointed Elon Musk, head of the DOGE, to investigate how a journalist was accidentally added to a Signal chat discussing military operations in Yemen.
National Security Adviser Mike Waltz admitted fault but could not explain how the contact was saved. Trump speculated that the journalist may have added himself.
The investigation will involve Musk’s technical team, the National Security Council, and White House lawyers.
A federal lawsuit challenges the use of Signal for government communication, alleging it violates federal law.
“Elon Musk has offered to put his technical experts on this to figure out how this number was inadvertently added to the chat. Again, to take responsibility and ensure this can never happen again.”
Take responsibility? That would be unprecedented.
We can all sleep better knowing Shitler is on the case.
How about investigating why they were using signal and not all in prison for it.
Huh, as it turns out, that group chat had about 10 million people that were over 150 years old.
OK… so you want to say he added himself… which let’s ignore that you can’t do that, but say you can. Then why are they using this app? Basically saying national security measures out in the public. That’s not a better look.
Unrelated, though what’s with Musk, perhaps other MAGAts, wearing the MAGA hat like that in the thumbnail: barely touching their head, so much that a slight breeze would knock it off.
Is it some sort of literal ‘big brain’ show off thing?
lmao what’s to investigate other than what dumb pieces of shit these are?
This is going to turn into a privacy issue with signal not Zapp Brannigan giving the codes away.
I dare say I’m beginning to suspect this Trump fellow may not be as competent as he claims
No! Rilly?
Elon is turning into the Jared Lushner of this second term.
Like any idiot who doesn’t want to take account for doing something idiotic, you need to send five people after the “true cause”, when everybody knows exactly what it is already.
- It’s illegal to use commercial means to discuss national security matter or military engagement
- You typed “J G” into a fucking app and shared said secrets with someone who wasn’t cleared.
Finding different ways to explain it isn’t going to distract from point #1, and only further explain how fucking dumb you all are.
Idiots.
It will tho. This will 100% work. Musk will say there was some backdoor hacking bull crap going on and the journalist snuck into the meeting and then made it seem like he was invited by accident to make them look bad. It will be played off as a nasty attack that was only meant to make the Republican heroes of this country look bad while also risking national security and the lives of those in the military.
And they will eat it up like pigs. God I hope I’m wrong.
I think you are wrong, but only in the you’re not thinking about the big picture.
Elon “I traced the DDOS to Ukrainian terrorists” Musk is in charge of this. Someone on Twitter (probably his alt) is going to post a conspiracy on Twitter about Ukrainian or Canadian hackers being behind it, and he’s going to retweet it with some plausibly deniable bullshit like “not far off,” and rally up his cult of reactionary prokaryots to demand a economic or military response. It’s yet another golden opportunity for the crony collective to sweep their own incompetence under the rug while simultaneously scapegoating another country to push their unspoken-but-obvious agenda.
I hate that I read this and immediately went “yup, that’s how it’ll go” without a hint of irony.
Its probably just pretext to arrest the editor, and charge him with treason .
You investigate the massive security breach with an even bigger security breach?
Tom Clancys Rotating Coffin Turbine Power Generation - may he rotate in peace - is going to need to upgrade the lines.
“We have investigated ourselves and discovered nothing happened.”
