Trump leadership team accidentally invites Atlantic editor to highly classified Signal war-planning channel (1 Viewer)

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    This needs a thread of its own - we can pull the posts out of Misc Trump. This story is (1) absolutely mindblowing and (2) not mindblowing at all because Trump has never really understood the value of high-caliber professionals and has surrounded himself with dramatically unqualified dolts.

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    I accepted the connection request, hoping that this was the actual national security adviser, and that he wanted to chat about Ukraine, or Iran, or some other important matter.

    Two days later—Thursday—at 4:28 p.m., I received a notice that I was to be included in a Signal chat group. It was called the “Houthi PC small group.”

    A message to the group, from “Michael Waltz,” read as follows: “Team – establishing a principles [sic] group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours. My deputy Alex Wong is pulling together a tiger team at deputies/agency Chief of Staff level following up from the meeting in the Sit Room this morning for action items and will be sending that out later this evening.”

    The message continued, “Pls provide the best staff POC from your team for us to coordinate with over the next couple days and over the weekend. Thx.”

    The term principals committee generally refers to a group of the senior-most national-security officials, including the secretaries of defense, state, and the treasury, as well as the director of the CIA. It should go without saying—but I’ll say it anyway—that I have never been invited to a White House principals-committee meeting, and that, in my many years of reporting on national-security matters, I had never heard of one being convened over a commercial messaging app.

    One minute later, a person identified only as “MAR”—the secretary of state is Marco Antonio Rubio—wrote, “Mike Needham for State,” apparently designating the current counselor of the State Department as his representative. At that same moment, a Signal user identified as “JD Vance” wrote, “Andy baker for VP.” One minute after that, “TG” (presumably Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, or someone masquerading as her) wrote, “Joe Kent for DNI.” Nine minutes later, “Scott B”—apparently Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, or someone spoofing his identity, wrote, “Dan Katz for Treasury.” At 4:53 p.m., a user called “Pete Hegseth” wrote, “Dan Caldwell for DoD.” And at 6:34 p.m., “Brian” wrote “Brian McCormack for NSC.” One more person responded: “John Ratcliffe” wrote at 5:24 p.m. with the name of a CIA official to be included in the group. I am not publishing that name, because that person is an active intelligence officer.

    The principals had apparently assembled. In all, 18 individuals were listed as members of this group, including various National Security Council officials; Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s Middle East and Ukraine negotiator; Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff; and someone identified only as “S M,” which I took to stand for Stephen Miller. I appeared on my own screen only as “JG.”

    That was the end of the Thursday text chain.
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    full story: https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/
     
    Incumbent said:
    After canceling subscriptions to other outlets, I had already been contemplating subscribing to The Atlantic. At a time when too many people and organizations are capitulating to this administration, they chose duty and integrity. I’m a subscriber, as of today, and would encourage anybody else to consider showing their support, as well. We need courage and accountability in the media now more than ever.
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    Agreed. I cancelled both WaPo and NYT, but kept The Atlantic.
     
    efil4 said:
    Wouldn't that raise issue in the sense of unequal (discriminitory) punishment?

    Legally I mean. Or does something like this fall under the guise of employers rights? ( like an "at will" law )
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    I don't know but I doubt it. Federal employment is full of all sorts of law and regulation but I don't think there's a rule that says that rank and file employees can't be disciplined if a Senate-confirmed political official isn't punished for doing the same thing. Senate-confirmed appointments get a lot of leeway. But I dunno.
     
    You do something terrible, the media says how terrible it is so therefore you’ve got nothing to worry about?
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    New York Times reporter Maggie Habermansaid she believes that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and other officials embroiled in the Signalgate security breach will not be fired.

    Haberman, known for regularly breaking stories about the Trump administration, told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Thursday that President Donald Trump will resist firing Waltz because he doesn’t want to be seen as “giving in to Trump the media.”

    “Trump is very clear that, according to a number of people I’ve spoken to, he does not want to fire someone because he sees that as giving in to the media,” Haberman, who also serves as a political analyst for CNN, explained.

    “People around him see that as weak and I think you will hear that for a while. Whether this is sustainable for them is another story.”…….

    www.independent.co.uk

    New York Times reporter reveals reason Trump won’t fire Mike Waltz

    White House Correspondent Maggie Haberman tells CNN that Trump ‘does not want to fire’ officials involved in the Signal group chat leak
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
     

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