This story is *wild*

Michael Waltz, Trump's national security advisor, was using Signal to chat with high-up Trump officials like defense secretary Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Stephen Mille, a CIA operative, and JD Vance ...

... to co-ordinate the Mar 15 bombing of Houthi targets

Waltz added -- apparently by mistake -- Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of The Atlantic, to the group

a wild, clownishly self-own of a leak

https://archive.is/JEYep

@clive @Lurkle@mstdn.social So they're definitely following the Federal Records Act of 1950 to the letter, right? /s
@clive Signal is good with keeping text messages encrypted. However, it will not prevent inept users from being inept.

@clive Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck this is mindblowing.

You can read the whole thing if you plug the URL into 12ft (dot) io. And you should.

These guys are CLUELESS on OPSEC.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

The Atlantic
@clive They are going to get us all killed.
@clive What is not being discussed is the possibility that Waltz is a leaker or secret-seller in the administration.
@clive clearn net, who the fuck are you talking to? really .... nebba.fail wow . monero ? who ? cash ok -
@clive Great, great, great. So they made the orange fucktard talk bullshit to declare him unfit for office
@clive You'd think they'd be using gov approved proprietary internal tool and not Signal lol.

@rejzor

yep

as the piece notes, there are *all manner* of legal issues therein

@clive

Wait, let me spell that again…

National
Security
Advisor

🤡

What could possibly go wrong (…)

@clive Perhaps #POSIWID ? As in, some one doesn't want for those who would usually be apprised of military plans to know but as for say the Israelis, Saudis, and Russians - perhaps we want them to know that we are proceeding with the plan agreed to at the "Peace" negotiations in Saudi for Global Kakistocracy.

https://mastodon.social/@Armadillosoft/112017751041137243

@clive
Ratcliffe compromising his own CIA operatives from inside is not how I foresaw the resistance working but then these guys love being disruptive. Anti-imperialists salute you, John!
@clive
Well at least this was probably the first time ever they mistakenly used Signal instead of legal systems, right? I mean they COULDN'T have been doing this since day one, right?! At least now they know and they'll stop. RIGHT?
@mediopocillo
@clive @mediopocillo . . . ok, maybe someone used Signal just ONE other time, and THEN they stopped . . .
@clive @Lurkle@mstdn.social you *know* they must have thought "JG" was Jonathan Greenblatt (ADL) and not Jeffrey Goldberg (editor of The Atlantic).

@clive

What if Waltz is secretly part of the resistance?
What if he built a secret fault into the death star that will bring about its ultimate destruction?

No one could ever know and the plans would have to be smuggled out to someone who could put them in the hands of resistance fighters.

@clive

Thank you for the archive link. I could not read the article otherwise.

Definitely wild for sure.

@clive Well I just checked my Signal to see if I was added too. That would have been a complication for sure.