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Nonilex Mar 26, 2025

Here Are the Attack Plans That #Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

The admin has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to #TheAtlantic’s editor in chief.

#law #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #Signal #idiocracy #kakistocracy #intelligence #USIntelligenceAgencies #JDVance #Hegseth #TulsiGabbard #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxdIP7nj6nZG7D9Wu-KWAI6M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to <em>The Atlantic</em>’s editor in chief.

The Atlantic

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Nonilex Mar 26, 2025

So, about that #Signal chat.

On Monday, shortly after we published a story about a massive #Trump-admin #security breach, a reporter asked the secretary of #defense, #PeteHegseth, why he had shared plans about a forthcoming attack on #Yemen on the Signal messaging app. He answered, “Nobody was texting war plans. And that’s all I have to say about that.”

#law #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #idiocracy #kakistocracy #intelligence #JeffreyGoldberg #TheAtlantic

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Nonilex Mar 26, 2025

At a Senate hearing yesterday, the director of national #intelligence, #TulsiGabbard, and the director of the #CIA, John #Ratcliffe, were both asked about the #Signal chat, to which #JeffreyGoldberg, the editor in chief of #TheAtlantic, was inadvertently invited by #NationalSecurity Adviser #MikeWaltz. “There was no #classified material that was shared in that Signal group,” Gabbard told members of the #Senate Intelligence Cmte.

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Nonilex Mar 26, 2025

#Ratcliffe said much the same: “My communications, to be clear, in the #Signal message group were entirely permissible & lawful & did not include classified information.”

#Trump, asked yesterday afternoon…, said, “It wasn’t #classified information.”

These stmnts presented us w/a dilemma. In #TheAtlantic’s initial story about the Signal chat—the “Houthi PC small group,” as it was named by #MikeWaltz—we withheld specific info related to weapons & to the timing of attacks…in certain texts.

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Nonilex Mar 26, 2025

As a general rule, we do not publish info about #military ops if that info could possibly jeopardize lives of #US personnel. That is why we chose to characterize the nature of the info being shared, not specific details about attacks.

The stmnts by #Hegseth, #Gabbard, #Ratcliffe, & #Trump—combined w/the assertions made by numerous admin ofcls that we are lying about the content of the #Signal texts—have led us to believe that people should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.

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Nonilex Mar 26, 2025

Here are screenshots of the chat:

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Nonilex Mar 26, 2025

More screenshots

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Nonilex Mar 26, 2025

🚨🚨🚨And here are screenshots of the OBVIOUSLY CLASSIFIED INFORMATION texts:

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Nonilex Mar 26, 2025

Then there’s a bunch of self-congratulating & a ridiculous number of emojis.

#TheAtlantic’s #JefferyGoldberg also published all 18 #Trump officials who participated in this #Signal group chat (19 members with Goldberg counted).

#law #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #idiocracy #kakistocracy #intelligence #USIntelligenceAgencies #JDVance #Hegseth #TulsiGabbard #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller

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Anonomouse13

@Nonilex

Another fun observation; personal AKA not secure, phones?
If it was government issued, wouldn't it be something like "USVicePres" and "USDoDSecDef" not "J D Vance" and "Hegseth"?

At this point, I realize it could have been - worse -
- a Hegseth, but not - thee - DoD Hegseth
- a JD Vance, but not - thee - US VP Vance
- a "private" Twitter chat room.
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