From #WarPlans to #WarCrimes—what a career
#uspol #politics #SignalGate #WhiskeyLeaks #HouthiPCSmallGroup #DefenseTeamHuddle #TMSGNL #ice_mass_text #VenezuelanBoatAttack #VenezuelanBoatSinking #PeteHegseth #PeteHegsethIllegalOrders #PeteHegsethWarCrimes #TrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2025 #SecondTrumpAdministration #Project2024 #MAGA
This is the same argument #Trump made about the #ClassifiedDocuments he took Mar-a-Lago after his first term & then refused to return. He said because he was president he could just think that they were declassified, & suddenly the documents would be. Like some “I Dream of Jeannie” shit.
#Hegseth #SignalGate #law #MilitaryLaw #military #OpSec #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Signal #HouthiPCsmallGroup #Pentagon #Defense #DoD #idiocracy #kakistocracy
3) #Hegseth said he had taken “‘non-specific general details’ that he determined, as an original classification authority, were either not #classified or that he could safely declassify & use to create an ‘unclassified summary’ to provide to the #Signal chat participants.”
#Trump #SignalGate #law #MilitaryLaw #military #OpSec #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #HouthiPCsmallGroup #Pentagon #Defense #DoD #idiocracy #kakistocracy
That meant the #InspectorGeneral had to rely in part on a transcript of those messages published by #TheAtlantic magazine. The second major obstacle was Hegseth’s refusal to be interviewed in person. Instead, #Hegseth submitted a written response to questions in July, months after the incident.
#Trump #SignalGate #law #MilitaryLaw #military #OpSec #NationalSecurity #InfoSec #Signal #HouthiPCsmallGroup #Pentagon #Defense #DoD #idiocracy #kakistocracy #USpol
For nearly 9 months, #Trump admin officials have defended top #NationalSecurity leaders who shared information in a #Signal chat about #US strikes in #Yemen, first reported by #TheAtlantic’s editor in chief, #JeffreyGoldberg, who was inadvertently included in the group. Officials played down the severity of the breach & insisted that the information wasn’t #classified.
#law #MilitaryLaw #military #OpSec #SignalGate #HouthiPCSmallGroup #Hegseth #DoD #Pentagon #Defense #idiocracy #kakistocracy
Here is coverage of the #InspectorGeneral report from #TheAtlantic who originally broke the #HouthiPCSmallGroup #Signal story
#Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages
An inspector-general report finds that the #defense secretary violated his own department’s policies.
#law #MilitaryLaw #OpSec #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #Trump #DoD #Pentagon #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2025/12/hegseth-signalgate-trump-defense-pentagon/684997/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxTIcgKrqBOvn__3F2rOVnNM
"If you put something in [a] group chat, assume, some scumbag is gonna leak it in an effort to cause you harm."
#JDVance insults #MikeWaltz
#uspol #politics #SignalGate #JeffreyGoldberg #TheAtlantic #WhiskeyLeaks #HouthiPCSmallGroup #DefenseTeamHuddle #TMSGNL #ice_mass_text
What #DonaldTrump hasn't heard of:
❌ #SignalGate/ #WhiskeyLeaks I ( #HouthiPCSmallGroup)
❌ SignalGate II ( #DefenseTeamHuddle)
❌ SignalGate III ( #TMSGNL)
❌ Lesotho
❌ #TerryMoran
❌ What #JDVance just publicly said
❌ #Project2025
What #Trump has heard of:
✅ #WhiteSupremacist conspiracy theories about white South African farmers being killed en masse
✅ Immigrants eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio
#uspol #politics #SecondTrumpAdministration #TrumpAdministration2025
Weekly output: Signal war-plans chat, AT&T limits autopay discount, Google travel search, my Washington Post origin story
I had a roughly four-and-a-half-day workweek, thanks to my taking Thursday afternoon off to see the Nats home opener–and then spending Thursday night seeing one of Arlington’s finest punk-rock bands, Tsunami, play a set at the Black Cat with co-headliners Ida. I’d last set foot in that venue on 14th Street in 2007 for a show by another great local indie-rock outfit, the Dismemberment Plan, and it was great to be back there.
Patreon readers got an extra post this week, a review of the book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter that examined how Musk’s disruption and destruction of government functions seems to follow the script he improvised in that disastrous takeover of Twitter.
3/24/2025: Trump Officials Accidentally Add Atlantic Editor to Signal Chat About War Plans, PCMag
I had to write about Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg’s recount of being added by mistake to a Signal chat about plans to strike Houthi militants–and I was glad I could include a disapproving quote in this post from an information-security expert and West Point grad I know.
3/26/2025: AT&T’s Full Autopay Discount Will Soon Require Your Bank Details, PCMag
Seeing AT&T suggest that subscribers get its credit card if they don’t want to allow direct withdrawals from their bank accounts but still want some kind of autopay discount made me think of how airlines now push their own credit cards.
3/27/2025: Need to Get Away? Google’s Travel Search Can Now Track Hotel Prices, PCMag
I thought the hotel rate tracking was the most useful part of this announcement, so it was interesting to see Ars Technica’s Ryan Whitwham lead with the screenshot-analysis part of the company’s news–and surface some details I hadn’t gotten.
3/28/2025: My First Byline: Rob Pegoraro, Your First Byline
I’ve enjoyed reading the how-I-got-started testimony of journalists on Ryan Teague Beckwith’s newsletter, so I couldn’t resist excavating some old e-mails and memos to write my own recollection.
#ATTAutopay #autopayDiscount #GoogleHotelSearch #GoogleTravelSearch #HouthiPCSmallGroup #JeffreyGoldberg #MikeWaltz #originStory #RyanTeagueBeckwith #Signal #SignalChat #TheAtlantic #TrumpInfosec #YourFirstByline
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