If Hegseth, Vance, Waltz and Rubio are discussing airstrikes against the Houthis on Signal or Whatsapp, you can they've also been chatting about actions towards Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Russia, Ukraine, China and Gaza as well. In ways that every intelligence service can see
Aside of the obvious wtf, I have to wonder if it is common the include journalists in upcoming events. I can imagine there is some sort non written pre inform rule for a select group of reporters. To hand out scoops and keep them friendly to the administration
Taps sign for the first of many times bsky.app/profile/aphc...
The possibility that debates within the Trump administration about US policy towards Southern and Northern neighbours is visible to every intelligence service might also explain why the Canadian and Mexican governments are so nervous at the moment
It also gives them a chance to harden their security and military. Good.
I might fucking enlist. The things being said IN THE OPEN are bad enough, I can't imagine what it is like for insiders🤯
You do mean in the Canadian military, not US. Right? B/c US are the bad guys here. Only reason to enlist in US military would be to assist in a coup against 47.
The US military won’t do a coup, and neither will the US police. They have all the excuses (“Just following orders”) they need to finally live out their fantasies of telling the stupid civilians what to do and the civilians having to listen. (See: All of human history.)
I'm obviously Canadian
Every secret service in the world has multiple assets at Mar-a-Lago. “Nice work on that round of drinks, man. Are you Mossad?” “No, ISI. Ben at table 12 is Mossad.” “Right. He’s dating the GRU girl at reception, right?” “No, they split up. He’s hooking up with Sophie from Paris. That canteen…”
Organising a a series of Air Strikes whilst ordering a McDonald’s and playing Candy Crush is an all time Fall of Rome scenario nobody had thought could happen.
#FireHegseth
"Europas Bull small group"
I think this is not even the biggest issue.. The US government is coordinating itself using off the record communications. A small group controlling government actions with no traces. A literal deep state.
That's probably quite a comforting thought, in some ways.
Is Putin laughing or worried?
Exactly. And his knows what else. And not preserving these records.
I think there is wide acceptance that the signal protocol is safe. However, that cannot be said about all of the Signal client applications ...
It can't be said of the personal devices that they were using Signal on.
We do not know what devices they were using nor do we know if they were running home build versions of the app. If not, then all bets are off. Any any case, one would assume the Atlantic editor didn't have a special device nor app ...
My understanding is that it isn't possible to put Signal on a gov't issued phone. And the whole point of using Signal is to ensure their is no gov't record of their conversation.
bsky.app/profile/exot...
"I may have accidentally sent the CBS weatherman the farm budget and minutes of a meeting on nuking Iran".
Signal is quite secure, you only have to be sure about group members.. I expect them also to be sloppy elsewhere about that
Are they all WFH too?
Wasn't Waltz, who invited Goldberg into the group, supposed to be one of the serious adults? Don't even want to know what the Hegseths and Gabbards are up to.
Cc @ceciliadolago.bsky.social
Top notch security you got there America.
