White House says it's 'case closed' on the Signal group chat review

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5345865/white-house-signal-group-chat-review

by doener • 1 year ago

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blitzar• 1 year ago

but, their Signal Group.

kacesensitive• 1 year ago

Imagine if this had happened under a Harris presidency.

jncfhnb• 1 year ago

Seems unlikely

joshstrange• 1 year ago

We don't have to? re: "Hillary's Emails"

sorcerer-mar13• 1 year ago

The thing to really emphasize about autocrats is not that they're just big ol' meanie heads, but that they and their teams are generally wildly incompetent at actually operating the systems they control.

These regimes attract the least competent people possible because those people know that so long as they're sufficiently loyal, they'll never be accountable for competence. It's a great opportunity for exactly the people you don't want making important decisions!

ty68538• 1 year ago

The US military bombing Houthis is like squishing an ant, they have no air defense and no risk of meaningful counter attack.

Understand they literally don't care about opsec, nor is there much reason why they should. It's an exercise to continue justifying military budgets and contractor and manufacturer enrichment. Any secrecy at best just is there to hide how thinly veiled the reasoning is, which doesn't need much bother because anyone open to finding out can quickly ascertain. It's just not supposed to be said openly for diplomatic and political reasons.

sorcerer-mar13• 1 year ago

Not only could they obviously evacuate their targets, wasting tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars and dozens of civilian lives on an unsuccessful attack, but it's also literally not true they have no air defenses. They've successfully shot down multiple MQ-9 Reapers very recently (one of the drones used in this attack).

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/houthi-stri...

John23832• 1 year ago

Except that the Houthis have actually shot down US assets.

https://www.defensenews.com/news/your-military/2024/09/16/ho...

So opesec, against all enemies, is important. Not just for diplomatic and political reasons. For OPERATIONAL (the op in opsec) reasons.

dragontamer2• 1 year ago

But Clinton's email servers. /s

itishappy• 1 year ago

OpSec is a "when we feel like it" sorta deal? Vibe national security practices?

lm284692• 1 year ago

Understand they literally don't care about opsec, nor is there much reason why they should.

yeah no that's not how any of this works. You don't get to chose what's going through official channels and what's going through signal based on how you feel about the target capabilities

lesuorac• 1 year ago

This kind of thinking is how the US spend a decade in Vietnam only to give up.

chasemp• 1 year ago

Insightful yet frightening.

red-iron-pine4• 1 year ago

Donald Trump got elected in 2016 -- this is news? He's been surrounded by incompetent Yes Men for ages; the smart ones left, often rapidly.

treetalker• 1 year ago

Mission accomplished!®

frogperson• 1 year ago

It feels like we are living in a powder keg, and articles like this just add more fuel to the pile.

I'm so worried that one initial act of violence is going to erupt into something horrific and uncontrollable.

pjc50• 1 year ago

The US has a surprisingly high tolerance for political violence if and only if it's carried out by gun.

red-iron-pine4• 1 year ago

only if it's aimed at kids, tho.

pull off a luigi and there is no mercy.

nickpeterson• 1 year ago

Maybe they’ll switch their next operation to iMessage.

Can’t wait to see those Memojis issuing kill orders.

Mr_Eri_Atlov• 1 year ago

Idiocracy in action

red-iron-pine4• 1 year ago

"case closed" == we're not going to talk about it more, and there will be no consequences.

these people are wildly incompetent and are a danger to US and international security. I am utterly shocked the US Army, Feds, or basically anyone hasn't stepped up to displace them.

White House says it's 'case closed' on the Signal group chat review

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