That's what happens when you refuse to use secure government channels to discuss war plans because you don't want to be constrained by that pesky Presidential Records Act.
That's what happens when you refuse to use secure government channels to discuss war plans because you don't want to be constrained by that pesky Presidential Records Act.
That's what happens when you refuse to use secure government channels to discuss war plans because you don't want to be constrained by that pesky Presidential Records Act.
Love that he said no then ended with "well it was simply a mistake, not an embarrassment. "
If we ever get out of this, I would love to see Ossoff run for office!!
He's literally a Senator...?
Sorry, President
Witkoff was in Moscow on a Russian network when he joined the chat. Russia has already infiltrated Signal & use it against Ukraine. This was a HUGE mistake by our government officials.
Nah. Intentional.
The entire administration is an embarrassment
That’s my Senator!!!
This is why Georgia you want to re-elect Ossoff
I love how he called out 'no apology'. That SHOULD resonate, certainly has in the very recent past.
I would definitely use it in my campaign
They all sit there guilty, like kids in a classroom whose teacher just told them. "We will stay here all day and after school until somebody tells the truth!!” These incompetents are grown adults & they are the top head of the military. Scary days America…
security breach of highest order is more like it
The way Ossoff handled Ratcliffe is the way Democrats Reps. should handle every mistake from Trump's administration. Why? Because it's so strong you can't resist. Even Republicans will have to admit it. Heck: even Maga will. Go strong, go fierce against them!
The way the MAGA filth talks over the congressman shows just how little the Republican party cares about the American people. #Republican
That's what I noticed. And Ossoff didn't let it slip: he continued to talk strong and walked over Ratcliffe. Because *those* guys don't listen, don't admit any error; therefore you have to walk over them and leave them with no space. Silence them without mercy.
As @whatashrinkthinks.com says: PRESENT STRENGTH
*except* adding the member of the press to the chain was the LEAST of the problems here. Far bigger issue is using unsecured comms in the FIRST place. Second to the fact that this record was set to delete (another reason NOT to use non-gov't comms). We only KNOW abt it becuz Goldberg got added.
Right
It seems that nothing sticks on these clowns. The GOP is not what it was.
Hell yeah that’s my sen
Balla busta! Finally! Thank you Senator Ossoff
They have no respect for Congress whatsoever, almost like they know checks and balances no longer exist.
Well Congress doesn’t seem to have respect for itself. The GOP have completely sold their souls to the devil.
GOP members certainly don't, and with their majority, other parties do can only try to get their disdain for and answers from these ppl put on record. The entity is not functioning properly because of all GOP members voting together, even against their district's best intrests.
How can anyone respect Congress? It was that no-longer-sacred chamber that gave the green light to every single imbecile and traitor the Orange guy threw at them! Congress is complicit in this royal fk up!
I respect the members of Congress who voted 'no' on the incompetent nominees. I respect the members of Congress who are questioning and objecting on record to the bs. I respect Congress members who vote in the best intrest of the ppl the represent. I respect TF out of my members of Congress.
You’re right, but Congress is full of numnutz too, so there’s that.
2) Those of us left will need to fix that when this is over.
I wouldn't say that, but I'd say more than half of Congress has agreed to absolute support of the executive branch with no regard for the consequences to the American ppl or even themselves and the entity of congress, and our system of government, cannot function under these circumstances.
They know the TrumpubliCON rubber stamp brigade in Congress, Donny's fatuous fluffers, will protect them from the normal consequences of such a monumental screw-up.
And by the Congressional GOP letting something like this slide, it further proves the nullification of Congress in thos administration. If Congress does not perform the function it is created for, they can get DOGEd. That's $174,000 a year per Congress member that Elmo can add to the $4T tax break
That is exactly the problem. The republicans have given up their Constitutional duty to impose checks and balances on the executive branch. The consequences are going to be tragic.
This part is a pretty massive part of the problem as well. They are running amuk, unchecked and trying to hide their communications from congress and the American people.
The GOP is not a legitimate political party. Every last one is corrupt and complicit, if for nothing else than THEIR SILENCE in the face of egregious failures and incompetency - and their failure to stop fascist oligarchs from dismantling our government to sell for parts to their wealthy donors.
Spot on!
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A conspiracy of dunces
They're soo fucking rude.
Yes, they were.
That lying unprofessional traitor should be dishonorably discharged as soon as possible.
Hey look lying under oath
Shocking 🙄
Has anyone asked Rat-shit what he meant by "it's a good start."? I really want to know.
Ossoff is good.
$5 says Ratcliff is the first to be fired. He is the only one I saw who didn’t hold the party line completely. He admitted to fault on the part of the administration. He will be the fall guy. He should collect his pardon before he leaves. Ask Rudy what it’s like after you’re out.
Imagine it was the Biden administration did that...🤔
They would loose their friggin mind 🤬🤬🤬
Okay, and once that testimony is measured against the transcript of the chat... then what? What action will they take? That's what we need to see. We KNOW the messed up. We want to know what consequences befall these people, esp. when real intelligence professionals go to prison for shit like this.
Whatever action Democrats take, it will be yet about opportunity for Republicans to show where their loyalties lie. The FBI should also take action, but we know they won't.
The Republican Party and Trump had to lie full time to American citizens to win. They lied all through the Trump campaign. They lie in every interview. They are not in an honest relationship with American citizens. This is not a valid "win". Their power is based on defrauding American citizens.
Coup
20 years ago, they wouldn't have succeeded. This is the true problem. In a country where facts and honesty no longer matter, any crook can wield influence and become powerful.
Yep. By any means necessary to get that sweet job - and then hang onto it all costs. And at all times a corrupt media on the reich wing to protect you.
wait, is he saying it *wasn't* a mistake? which part: having a national security conversation on an insecure platform or including a reporter?
Step down. This is not the time for weak leaders like you who just wank to a fantasy of "norms" and bipartisanship. A fascist coup is taking place. Resign. You have failed everyone. You have betrayed everyone who every supported you (except your wealthy donors) #StepDown #WeakLeader #DietRepublican
AND THEN WHAT? We already know not a damn thing will come of it. Embarrassment? It's actionable!
Just ask the Atlantic for the transcript. Everyone testifying and pontificating is says it wasn’t classified and this is no big deal. Soonish everything
What is the most effective way for us to demand accountability with this breach?
RATCLIFFE TRUMP, HEGSETH, GABBARD, & THE REST ARE LIEING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND MILLITARY.
Don't worry we have your back .......
Ratcliff needs to resign. He doesn't even think endangering our troops is a mistake
Ratcliffe is exactly what his name suggests...A Rat!
Complete lack of respect shown for the questioner. Defensive. Lying. it’s a disaster. I’ll say again. We are not safe.
When my Trump voting friends ask why I am so angry and fearful about the election, I say I am concerned about National Security
Who knows what info has already leaked. How many signal meetings have taken place?
They were trained in how to hold these secret discussions by Project 2025 training videos. They EXPLICITLY trained them how to hide their conspiring by using non-governmental (unsecured) systems. This chain was set to delete after 4 days. They are deliberately doing this.
At the very least everything in the Mar-a-Lago shitter is already released to Russia, North Korea, China, Hungary, Turkey, & any other admired dictator who praised the very stable genius
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Oh God. I just threw up a little. I thought taking Russian in HS during the Soviet Union would have prepared me for this. I just didn't think it would be American pols/cronies/mobsters would be the perps.
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And, what's in the bathroom boxes? Why did he get them back?
Because he is a fucking King who in his administration will stand up to him.
Safe assumption is Putin has it all
And more.
Trump already leaked state secrets before this election, at Mar A Lago, and that case was thrown out even though its a federal felony because the GOP believes that Trump should be a King and have unlimited power. All of this is in ADDITION to that.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxit...
Witkoff was on the chat and he was in RUSSIA at the time!! So, no need to “leak” it!
UFB, Trump’s team was never meant to play in the major leagues, more like “T-ball”.
I said weeks ago that our allies should assume that everything they tell us is immediately available to Putin. The United States under Trump can never be trusted.
Nope. I hope we can recover from this. 250 years down the drain because of RW media and a willfully ignorant electorate that refuses to do any independent reading or critical thinking. I despise the Trump voters that I know.
Seconded. Signed UK.....
Witkoff was in Moscow on a Russian network when he joined the chat. Russia has already infiltrated Signal & use it against Ukraine. This was a HUGE mistake by our government officials.
Apparently timing of his visit indicates he would have been in the Kremlin at that time.
Assume that it's all of it, and tons of them.
I think you are exactly right. think of the worst case and then try to make it worse. That’ll be it.
I mean: the plan, literally, is to destroy the USA. They wrote it in their giant playbook. This is the part about circumventing FOIA.
can’t disagree
And if I remember reading 2025 there are methods on doing just that?
Jeez I don't know.
bsky.app/profile/nafo...
Yes, along with training videos. The violations of oath of office are ASTOUNDING and just right out there for the public to see.
washingtonspectator.org/project-russ...
I know! I just got to that part. I worked with Russians for about a decade (starting long before this debacle), and this is very much in line with what I learned from them about how Putin thinks about USA and the world. The whole decadence bit: YUP.
Holy shitballs. I've read TONS about what's going on here over the last decade, and about the Orange Asshole's Russian connections...but I missed this horrific bit. Thank you for sharing!
Yup. It's basically a matter of public record FROM various intelligence apparatus, that the Orange Asshole is a Russian tool. The whole thing is INSANE.
You have nazi supporters for friends?
No just people that don't engage in critical thinking or independent reading. We just retired to Florida so we had to take what we got. I have been making some changes.
They’re too dumb and uninformed to grasp any of this. Our media doesn’t ever communicate cause and effect to these low literacy people. They seriously know NOTHING about anything.
And they are in very large numbers. Look at the literacy rates. trump loves the uneducated
These people are still your friends?
Not really. Neighbors so I can't always avoid them.
I can see how hard it might be to live by so many hateful people
Actually they are just WILLFULLY ignorant.
unfortunately many are also racist
Willfully ignorant, hateful, and evil.
worry about aipac and u wont have to worry about the rest. They are the plague.
you need new friends
I have made some. I can't stand the willful ignorance. We are retired, we all have time.
I’m beginning to believe the only way we get our country back is by massive peaceful demonstrations. IMHO we need huge turnouts at state capitols, the White House and demand this administration resign. April 5th is a start.
and peaceful general strikes. Those won’t solve the SCOTUS issue but a start. But if this latest massive law breaking by senior cabinet members is not dealt with then I fear greatly as all semblance of following laws and keeping the nation safe is gone
I agree. At what point will Americans finally be done with this craziness and corruption. If the tRump administration f’cks with our SS and Medicare, that might be the breaking point. And I believe it’s just a matter of time.
Countries are selling US bonds. Investors don’t see much growth in US stocks so are going elsewhere. Trump waffling on tariffs again because he has no idea. Inflation climbing. Unemployment increasing. A recession might do it but I even doubt that.
I found this article extremely interesting. You might too. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
absolutely should be investigated. But where is the will. If i’m a sitting senator from a blue I have the DNC form a committee to investigate blue state secession. Exploratory, of course. Then i believe the numbers and facts will speak for themselves.
It seems like the only legal and most peaceful way to do it. Otherwise, we’re dead as a country. Currently I honestly don’t think we’re going to have anything left when Trump is done.
i said a while ago it will take 100 days for cracks to appear. Social security is being cut. Inflation is going to hit 8% or so but I saw he may change calculations of economic indicators. And unemployment will rise. Opec voted for a production cut so gas prices will rise. Maga feel the pain.
They had better.
Ive been concerned since the docs in the bathroom!
I assume trump has given or sold a lot of information
How happy does this make them?
Our military sons and daughters are not safe! Put these morons on the front lines fighting for Russia they love Putin so much. Bet you they would run and hide such lying cowards!
Yes this is probably the tip of the iceberg.
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We’re really not. We’re in decline and our fellow citizens aided in their own demise.
Thank you for actually showing some fight! You and a few of your colleagues made us proud today
All allies, like Canada who incidentally noticed a change in tone today, are wondering what more was said about us. What's the US really planning against us? What is the price? You could have allowed us time before you betrayed us America. We are rising to this challenge. History is being made.
My guess, and it’s only a guess, is that as global climate change wreaks havoc on the lower latitudes it will make the higher latitudes more temperate and more productive. Summers without arctic sea ice will make shipping cheaper between North America and Eurasia, hence the desire for control.
We were allies. You could have worked with us. Canada was no threat.
Preaching to the choir, I hate the fucking new Nazis and everything they stand for.
I understand. Just having a rant at the other fools in your country.
Rant away, I do a fair amount myself. We need millions in the streets. Thousands isn’t going to get the job done.
This. Momentum is building.
Thankfully they’re incompetent as well as cruel.
Good. Do it, and frequently. We deserve every bit of it. In the meantime we actual American patriots despise Trümp and his MAGAts.
“An extraordinary breach of U.S. security is stunning security and intelligence veterans, after a journalist was added to a Trump administration group chat on Signal, where senior leaders discussed plans for a military strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen…”
what does that fool mean, 'no'? Like, it wasn't a mistake to accidentally loop a journalist into top secret military discussions, on an insecure group chat app, that deletes all the data so there's no record of who said what? 0_0
The fact that Republican never get they make mistakes and just project onto others for their faults never ceases to amaze me. It's like you never get integrity if you are Republican. The fact you can report to an outside source WAR PLANS YOURSELF. Then attempt to blame others, just mind blowing.
#SignalChat 1- Who is responsible of creating the group and inviting or adding the 18 members? 2- Who approved this group on this platform and why? 3- Who participated actively in the group chat? 4- Did the one person visiting Russia signed in the group chat while in Moscow? 5- But her emails?
Answers: 1- Mike Waltz 2- Nobody 3- More than half of them 4- Sure did 5- This was only a glitch
Brilliant. The gaslighting from this group is so old and tired. America deserves way better! So does the world.
Did anyone read the texts?!?
Also will this happen again? How many times has it already happened that we don’t know about? Grill them, they’re gonna do it again.
...6. And how many more group chats are currently going on about global high level security?
And illegally shipping people to international prisons, etc
Love it!
What's going on here? Doesn't JG's article says the texts included weapons, day, time, location of the attack? If that's true, then that is classified information. Are these misfits going to say that information is not classified or a war plan?
Yup.
So, what's happening here is, they're lying through their teeth like the cowardly morons they are.
Where are the resignations
We are witnessing the formation of a regime. The Signal leak is more than a glimpse, it’s a blueprint. Trump’s playbook isn’t chaos, it’s control: crush the press, bury diversity, reward obedience, punish defiance. Where loyalty replaces law and truth is whatever power says it is.
Love this!
Oh yeah…this is how it’s done, Democrats! Take note.
NO, while he sheepishly looks guilty as hell!
Buddy blow... body blow... Finish him..... Man I love this dude
sounds like checks and balances
Ossoff, after consideration, "No mistake was made? So, you'd say this could all happen again, and you'd be fine with that?"
This whole administration are bumbling idiots that will go to their grave, supporting the most asinine, immature, incompetent, lazy actions. I cannot believe that we have to put up with this bullshit
It’s so much MORE than just an embarrassment!
Loving it @ossoff.bsky.social!
Same!!
Go get him, @ossoff.senate.gov
They will all lie under oath. They are an absolute disgrace.
Thanks Senator Ossoff💙🔥💙
Wow
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Ossoff is great like Buttigieg he will not allow any pathetic Republican to shout him down .. D’s need leaders and leadership like these two add Warnock to that list ….. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Yaaaaas!! 👏👏👏
Love them both!
This is the way!
There needs to be immediate resignations across the board.
Agreed. But the only people holding them accountable are the Dems. The idiots involved haven't even acknowledged what they did and are blaming the journo. I feel like I'm in Bizarro World.
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You know it was a mistake because they didn't charge $5 million for the group chat include.
My fucking god and he has the gall to not shut up. The audacity is insane
I've been waiting for ratcliffe to get his karma for at least 8 years. He's an embarrassment to humanity on top of being embarrassing for the regime.
His full surname is Ratfuckliffe, as I recall from the first Trump administration.
Wow… 😳
If it wasn't classified then publish them....they won't and refuse to even answer the question.
bsky.app/profile/thet...
Don’t say she and her it helps enemies narrow in on cia undercover person.
I would agree except that the heads of trump's national security, intelligence & DoD are saying nothing classified was in that chain.🙄
My thought EXACTLY! Duh!
I thought the same when he said it. I think he was a little flustered and wasn’t expecting the line of questioning from Tim.
They mention her on purpose, to betray her, to set her up?
So does releasing her actual name and AOO. And if no one gets hammered for this its going to keep happening. What happens when they add a rando with connections to an enemy state? Besides gender is the LEAST identifying piece of information they could use. Focus on the real issue.
They used an unsecured, commercial app while one of them was literally in Moscow. Pretty sure her name is known to Russian intelligence now.
Yes likely just felt Goldberg might want to keep it more neutral but certainly can’t undo this damage already. I guess I was just hoping they may be able to be protected still. It’s all awful.
Could also be a double fake.
True
l.smartnews.com/p-jQB2XR6/YM...
Is there anyway to read this without downloading a whole other app?
The cat is out of the bag now and will be everywhere
I believe you can still read it on the smart news app and don’t have to download it but it is a free app and a great app for news.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
They don’t think it was a mistake because their objective is to hide from government oversight. They’re trying to open channels of communication that aren’t part of the public record so nobody will ever know if a crime was committed or not.
Ratcliffe should be fired. If his judgement is so piss poor that he can’t see the gravity of this situation he is incapable of making informed intelligent decisions and needs to go! This is white “supremacy” at its best, lying and obfuscating while scapegoating others for their own actions.
I’ll say it again. Gaslighting and denial is the way of the white American patriarchy. Bonus points for delivering it with a narcissistic smirk.
I’m betting he’s perjured himself.
And why not? Trump's DOJ won't prosecute, and if they did he would pardon.
This is the crux. When criminals are in charge, of everything.
Yup. It's not an administration, it is a crime syndicate.
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And a transnational one at that!
They all need to be fired . Is JD VANCE at this BBQ?
Vance should be one of the MOST responsible people. Tulsi Gabbard has something in her ear, she was being coached. Watch her stumble over if she was using her own personal phone or not, then as if listening to an earpiece she declined to answer. (Let me help her, it was her own personal phone) FFS
Yes, she paused long enough to question, was she thinking or listening. They should not be allowed to have earpods or phones.
Yes, possibly being coached, but really does it matter? When they do answer they just lie. So?
How stupid she is to need coaching to answer with the same deflection of lies
That’s the kind of thing a punk would do. Using an earpiece because it would make them giggle as if getting one over on the committee. It’s sneaky kind of garbage. If only these traitors to the country tried this hard to carry out a covert military operation.
For fucks sake
Exactly. The Republicans are so used to their idiot base that believe all of their lying they seem to forget most of the country and the world can see through their pathetic cowardly lying.
Firing squad
Our military folks should show Ratcliffe how easy it is to hit a target, when given the intel
Well, when a full chain of managers in a company are incompetent and dangerous, you start firing the boss who selected them
Yep. Top down corruption and incompetence. No one would run a company like the tool in the WH is running our country, government.
Bravo! Very well-said!👍
All but Patel. His body language is ever so slightly different. Bordering in defiance with the one hand above the table, but not quite there yet. Either that or he has no idea why he's there.
Kash always look like he's terrified they'll eventually notice he's the one that's not like the others.
So pathetic and aggravating that these fools are not being held to account by the Oval Office and that their primary regret for their grave error in using a commercial chat platform and violating national security standards is that they were busted.
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Only a mistake because they got caught in their eyes And now lying their way out
Their guilty faces... like dogs who just chewed up a couch.
They know the mistake was they got caught and now we know they are hiding untraceable info about overthrowing our gov on these apps as well. And there if nobody to watch them. Every one of them is committing treason.
Clowns in a fascist circus. And this is our current reality. Absolutely fu_€ing mind boggling.
Wait. Is that Alex jones in the upper right?
they look like kids caught playing hooky! 🤣
They are children. The mental maturity of 12 year olds
They need to be spoken to like they're children.
Was just gonna say this, look like kids getting sent to principal’s office. Now they’re gonna get sent home, and they’re worried about what they’re parents gonna say.
Make them sit in the corner and no TV, video games and/or cell phones for a month.
More like getting caught smoking grass behind the school!
Huffing glue
More like the kids that get caught eating Tide pods.
....oooor in the hallway right in front of the principal's office🤔
nah they're not cool enough 🙃
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After looking at this picture I suddenly realized I haven’t seen The Bride of Frankenstein in ages.
Hilarious. However, it is an insult to Gene Wilder and His Brilliant mind and a Monumental and Epic film:-)
Madeline Khan certainly did a fun recreation of the character originally played by Elsa Lancaster. Madeline Khan/Elsa Lancaster
Or The Graduate
Absolutely unf*%kingbelievable.
Scumbag liars.
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I hope he gets re-elected
This is a shame and embarrassing. Giving a political party whose entire belief system and platform was trampled and stomped into the earth by a landslide election defeat should never happen.
The mascara is spreading like wildfire through the republican party.
All they need to do is get it from Jeffrey Goldberg.
In a normal world, their devices would already have been seized.
Remember when the Secret Service wiped all the data off their cell phones after January 6th? I do.
Betting Warner already had it in hand.
Ratcliffe, it was a HUGE mistake. Mistakes don't discriminate. A mistake isn't something that only "the radical left" can make when the same EXACT thing done by you is considered "no big deal." Your mistakes may cause the same harm to a Republican constituent as it would a Democratic constituent.
Push that RAT over the CLIFF! 😏
And all the other buboes on the call.
LET’S GOOOO!!! Put their ugly mug in it.
Evert Trumper on that chain has to be indicted and be ousted from their position. Every single one. Including Vance.
Well they won’t be. There are never any consequences because our Congress is majority compromised fascists.
Yup. I was in the military. You cannot have communication apps on secure phones which every one of them is supposed to use. The had to be on their private phones-also illegal. And using a commo app to discuss what has to be extremely sensitive intel. RWNJ’s that said anything about Hillary’ email🤬
There's nothing worse than lack of professionalism.
I'm hearing they use FarmVille 2 as their backup.
Ossoff is a rising Star 🌟
You might want to look at his voting record.
It oh. Not good?
On cabinet nominees, 4 abstentions and 4 Yes.
#LockHimUp
Not even a “thank you”
Get roasted bitch.
Well, if they're entitled to the information, there's somebody at the Atlantic could let them look at it right now
Yes Ossoff!
Rock star!
But her emails. Amirite? 😳
The real horror of this epically reckless error is that this fascist regime & their boot lickers will refuse to accept that this is a grievously serious problem… It’s all cavalier excuses, dismissing it & of course ridiculous finger pointing. Their refusal to take responsibility is Frightening!
Frightening, Ignorant, and Dangerous is the Hallmark of this pathetically ignorant Administration
They love when we freak out. Anything to scare us. If it scares us then they're all for it. Simple as that.
Yeah. Call your senator(s) if they voted to confirm Hegseth/Gabbard, then move on to the next action. (One of which is supporting Susan Crawford in WI SC election on April 1.) Venting/having fun with this on SM is okay (it can boost morale) but it shouldn't distract from the next action.
Call my senators and reps every day. Goes straight to voicemail every time.
That's ok. Keep on keeping on. If you're able to visit a local office, that is even better, but if not, keep with the calls. We can't let the call volume drop, or they'll think we've given up.
No? then he tries to talk over Ossoff. This guys incompetence in this role is just beyond belief.
They should have cut his mic. He thinks a one word answer is adequate then hold him to that.
That's the vibe that the Democrats need. That right there. Made this regime's demise be swift and certain.
Yes good to see that there are some political leaders who still have integrity.
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Thank you @ossoff.bsky.social!
Now they’re perjuring themselves on top of violating the Espionage Act on two counts (negligence, failure to report breach) and conspiring to break federal records laws. But the perjury is small beer, a reminder that the old Beltway saw is precisely backwards: it’s the crime, not the coverup.
Nice watching Ossoff roast this guy. Who ironically is one of the less incompetent administration officials, but still feels compelled to never admit an error. Because if you do, then you immediately become the "enemy" of our insecure Orange Julius.
This fuckface military man up there lying his ass off. What a bunch of whiny little cowards! They were sworn to uphold the Constitution. They need to go!
All MAGA wipe their asses with that document 🥲
I wish Ossoff would have looked him square in the eye and said, "tread carefully, you're talking to your boss."
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Sorry. Just. Not. Tough. Enough. Where is the fire? Calling this a mistake is so lame. Wanting an apology is shallow and makes me feel like I am babysitting a kindergartener. And why didn't Osoff just tell him to shut it while he kept speaking over him? Dems are soft.
The unspoken word is Perjury.
Now I know why Ossoff gets voter support. He’s got some beast in him. 💪
Can't wait till they find out, they lied under oath.
The probably did. But what happens then? It seems these folks could get away with murder.
Probably not much but I would like to see them called out.
Do oaths mean anything to these people?
Nope
Democrats need to go after them anyway.
Nah.
Um...no.
Not a damn thing. 🤬
Why would they? No one is getting punished for breaking them. These people need to be incarcerated for violating their obligations, it’s just sickening.
Yes, it is, but go after them. Let them hear it
They vacillate between active and willing threat to democracy and unwitting morons playing into enemy nations hands. I feel like my position is fairly clear. Now its time to find those in law enforcement willing to fight for the oaths they swore to. But a not insignificant number are traitors too.
No
The disrespect to a sitting US Senator, no matter which party, is astounding-even after everything, it still jolts me seeing something like this.
If the full transcript comes out will it include all of the dick pics? 🍿
Would we notice if they did?
I have a loop.
Good God I hope not
You can take screen shots of Signal chats. I wonder how many of those are floating around. Maybe ask Putin?
Anonymous has warned they are watching and seeing carelessness all over the place...if they needed more motivation...will they continue to use apps so that the info disappears? I would think the hacker groups would be watching all of them...
Which can easily be faked and therefore unverifiable.
wouldn't they verify it by the data on the device?
There’s no data left on any of the phones to check it against because of the self deleting feature and end to end encryption.
They can easily be verified to have been doctored or not.
Congress can get the actual transcripts and I believe that they should be published to the public.
Not from an end to end encryption service like signal. That’s 90% of why this is an issue, it’s not recoverable data.
Good thing Goldman has the receipts.
I, like you, are accepting those on faith. However it still hasn’t been forensically demonstrated to be true because it can’t.
This is an enormous breach of security precisely BECAUSE the receipts can’t be verified with 100% accuracy. Journalistic integrity (a hell of a lot of it I might add) is all this story has.
Is Signal set up to be untraceable? If so, that, alone makes it an illegal platform for anyone in the government to use for official communication. I'm terrified about what will have to happen for Americans to revolt.
That’s exactly what signal is. Military grade end to end encryption with self deleting logs. And yea, it’s very illegal to use for official communications. It’s meant for civilians and journalists in private use.
And for the revolt part, we need more liberals to wake up and realize they are complicit and move further left. Socialism is the cure to are looking for.
Not a mistake means it’s intentional and the way they are doing business.
I guess the only silver lining here is that they have some fear of these communications being retained?
It’s less fear and more deliberate hiding of the nefarious things they’re doing. The coup will continue on unabated.
Damn you’re right
Terrifying, isn't it?
Ossoff needs watch Judge Judy to get tips on how to deal with someone talking over the judge.
Thats how to talk to these unqualified assholes
no talk, just guillotine.
YES. WASTE THEM ALL! Pitchforks and torches.
Half length of rope. Family can pull the ankles to speed things up.
He said "no" with his whole chest 😭😂
Even shaking his head as he was leaning into the mic to say it. 😂
LOL, but only after he wet & sharted in his drawers and then squirmed in his seat.
When they make a major error, it's 'No Big Deal'.
Tell Radcliff to shut the fuck up and listen to the adults.
It's what we all need to say when they try to talk over us, as they always do. Rudeness is their only defense. It's what they are taught in how to be a republican and not answer questions 101 . Verbal class so the Boebert , Moscow marge, and Matt Gaetz pelafile can still comprehend. Fucking idiots
These people (and I use the term loosely) can be looking at an elephant and swear blind to you that we’re looking at a cat - parallel universe stuff
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White men only make small mistakes. Huge mistakes are made by women and people of other races.
Mistake or not, it does not matter. You put people at risk. What do you think they would do at a construction site if you put lives at risk?
Ratcliffe has a punchable face
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Stop talking over each othet!!
Just the fact that he and the others refuse to own it shows a total lack of leadership and accountability. Taking responsibility is the absolute bedrock quality of leadership.
I disagree. This was not a mistake. It was an intentional act, it was illegal, it was dangerous, and it was highly unprofessional. The entire group on this Signal chat needs to be held accountable.
I disagree. These are a bunch of unqualified mofos that got their cabinet positions based on how far up trump’s ass they were able to go. They are too stupid for an intentional act. I’m sure Tulsi already notified her other boss in Moscow about the plans.
Both statements can be true. They are unqualified and this was intentional. Any classified government action must be recorded and archived. This was an intentional violation of that law.
Obviously they intended to be on that chat in Signal, but it is not an intentional violation of the law if government allows Signal to be used.
The law does not allow it. You can bet the farm that this was not the first time these fools have illegally used Signal in order to keep a conversation out of government records. It is far more likely that this is an ongoing disaster than that it was a one-off.
The law does not allow to have this type of conversation on an unsecured device. Signal was used during Biden admin but for organizational correspondence. We are dealing now with a bunch of incompetent creatures, a Russian asset, an alcoholic, who think they are untouchable.
And that is the point. It is against the law, and they use it intentionally to subvert having any breadcrumb trail that can lead to them. The law was created for a reason.
Gotta LOVE a PISSED OFF DEM! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 More of this!
They keep lying and digging a deeper hole. Fire all those on the chat.
"There has been no recognition of the gravity of this error." That goes for everything they fuck up.
Push blame and act like it wasn’t that big of a deal.
How does he know if he says he don’t remember or he doesn’t know?!
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Ratcliff: Well, OK. Maybe it was a tiny mistake..... Oh. And my cousin was also in the chat for some reason...
DANG!!!
Best line of 2025, so far.
Yes!!
bsky.app/profile/kati...
Sen. Ossoff was great at this hearing.
I didn’t realize he has a history in just this topic. Very interesting.
It is a major security error to use a commercial application for these types of communications. They should only be held in a SCIF. Most people with a top secret clearance would likely be fired for an error like this. It would be virtually impossible to pretend it was an accident
youtu.be/g1eUIK9CihA?...
Exactly.
But President Obama was given all kinds of hell for just wanting to use a Blackberry! Those were the better days.Now they may as well use etch a sketch and slinkies to run the government. Oh wait.....
“These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.” — Timothy Snyder
On purpose.
🤭 lol
Hegseth is “unfit for duty.”
Crack house. The perfect description.
He drops the bombs that remind him of the good times, He drops the bombs that remind him of the better times Doooonnnn’t cry for meeeee, Tulsi Gabbarrrrrrrrd Hegseth’s a clown Did he get drunk again? He copied all the war plans down (Repeat) [Sorry, you *were* channeling Chumbawumba, yes?]
Beat me to it by 44min 👍
And anyone caught lying to the American people will get their ass booted out of Dodge.
It wasn't a huge mistake because he did it on purpose. It was a test. It was a tactic to set precedent for future top secret information being texted to the highest foreign bidders.
Gabbert also seems to have a very sketchy memory.
no apology! this! they never own the fuck up.
They learnt from the best.
Mistake?! No, this was treason! Sharing WAR PLANS and information on CIA operatives is TREASON n demands imprisonment! Copying any confidential sensitive military information is AGAINST THE LAW! Ppl know how Signal works right?
They are using signal to avoid any official records. They are planning attacks online to depersonalize their humanity. These are soulless people.
Wow, these people really don’t have any standards at all. I guess the shocking part is that they’re willing to admit it on TV. You got what you paid for, America .
Given what I pay in taxes? I expect WAY FUCKING better.
No, we got what musk paid for.
I sincerely hope that they will hold these people accountable.
We are a laughing stock around the world. Diversity has saved us over the years.
This is what it looks like to hold people accountable. It’s so unfortunate that the republicans trump’s helpful idiots have forgotten who they work for. When you hire trump loyalists don’t expect men and women to do their jobs they’re only working for one not all! So pathetic, weak and dangerous.
Ossoff (a younger Senator) showing the older Dems how to be the grown-ups in the room. He’s good.
They are already tying up loose ends...like this person with lots of confidential knowledge about Russian cybercriminals... www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
One would almost think she could have “accidentally” thrown from a window
The rude, disrespectful display by Ratcliffe will be watched carefully over the months ahead. He will continue to bend the knee for those who do not care about protecting Americans, protecting our security, our privacy or our jobs & futures. They're all the same fabric.
Disaster. We are all doomed. Thanks magets.
Ahhh but did they say ‘thank you’?
Get the popcorn. Nothing will get done.
Yeah because chatting to MAGAts in a committee is working really well; is that y’all back in control of your country now? 🤡
Twist their nuts clean off. It’s the only way to deal with fascist, white supremacist scum.
No respect, no humility, no accountability. This shows how the whole administration believe themselves to be untouchable. He might as well have flipped the bird and put his feet up.
Remember all the secret service agents who deleted their texts after Jan 6?
Ossoff should be the Dem being groomed for a 2028 run.
One to consider for sure.
🤬🤬They are trying to sweep the gravity of mediocre white man texts with frat boy drunken texts 🙄🙄🙄
Let him admit that it was purposeful.
This was a huge mistake No So a reporter was added to the military planning group chat on purpose?
LOLOL
I find it interesting that they showed up. It's not a secret that Trump et al arrogantly think they're above the law. (And Republicans are happy to let them be). It means even Republicans can't pretend this will just go away.
This hearing had long been scheduled and was presumably just supposed to be a circle jerk session for praising the regime....awkward
I think they were there for other purposes.
It's very hot in China now. Could this prompt them to take action that effects our national security? Did DNI watch project 2025 training film to eliminate all references to climate from all government reports
We want Hegeseth fired. No apology needed.
Get him a big ole costco sized bottle of vodka and tell him to kick rocks.
Weird that Hegseth missed this. www.npr.org/2025/03/25/n...
He would have to READ.
He was probably too pissed to noticed..
It’s Happy Hour somewhere!
In American-English, he was too "SMASHED" (or blotto, or shitfaced or...choose your favorite black-out-drunk descriptor here) to have read the memo.
Hmm... I like shitfaced..speaks volumes!
who the hell is that shit head in the witness chair.
"We will get the full transcript of this chain and your testimony will be measured carefully against its content" is fancy code for "liar liar pants on fire"
I accidentally checked the ‘Make in Monthly’ box when I contributed $300 to candidate Ossoff. Today I so am glad I did. 
Thank you, Randy. 🙏
I volunteered on his campaign the first time he ran. I like him.
I've decided to pop an extra 10 bucks over to him every time an algorithm brings MTG across my feeds. She's always acting up and her trashy behavior just funds his campaign even more. 😂
Which Democrat Senators voted for this arrogant ahole?
Quite a few. He was confirmed 74-25-1
Those are the ones we should be calling.
Goldberg better have taken screenshots.
Oh he absolutely did. And sent them to his attorneys
@ossoff.bsky.social
What a muppet.
Love Jon Ossoff!
Mistake or not it was sharing classified intelligence over an unsecured channel - why are they missing the whole point
Clowns from top to bottom. Worst president ever.
Only one way to deal with this .... cut off the head. Physically.
How can a general sit there with these fascist clowns?
Except it was held on Signal specifically to keep the transcript from falling into Congressional hands. The only one likely to pass along the transcript is a journalist, and if I were him, I'd keep away from tall windows for the next few decades.
Signal, contrary to common belief, is not secure. Krasnov is trying to BS his way through it. There is NO absolutely secure digital technology in the civil domain and probably not in military domain either. All you can do is make it so difficult that by time its "viewable" its no use.
Elon is making damn sure there is no secure digital technology in DC.
so he's saying that they didn't make a mistake, no "oops we didn't know better" (they very well did). They very deliberately use non-secure channels to do government business, whether classified or not, which is illegal. He's admitting to a criminal act by all involved.
Will always love this Ossoff guy. Good work electing him Georgia.