"The fundamental issue is that 18 high-ranking individuals were happy discussing extremely sensitive material on a private messaging app, highlighting the administration’s extraordinary amateurishness, recklessness and unaccountability.
The visceral hostility to Europe spelt out again by the vice-president, JD Vance, was glaring."
~ The Guardian
#Trump #Vance #Hegseth #NationalSecurity #Europe #incompetence #ClownShow
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"So was the indifference to the potential civilian cost of the strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, designed to curb attacks on Red Sea shipping. The Houthi-run health ministry said that 53 people including five children and two women were killed. The response by the national security adviser, Michael Waltz, to the attacks was to post emojis: a fist, an American flag and fire."
#Trump #Vance #Hegseth #NationalSecurity #Europe #incompetence #ClownShow
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"The lack of contrition for this security breach is also telling. Individually and together, these are far more than a 'glitch', in Donald Trump’s words. They are features of his administration."
#Trump #Vance #Hegseth #NationalSecurity #Europe #incompetence #ClownShow
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"The National Security Agency sent out an operational security special bulletin to its employees in February 2025 warning them of vulnerabilities in using the encrypted messaging application Signal, according to internal NSA documents obtained by CBS News."
~ CBS
#Trump #Hegseth #NationalSecurity #Europe #incompetence #ClownShow
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nsa-signal-app-vulnerabilities-before-houthi-strike-chat/
@wdlindsy The NSA should send out a notice that none of these messaging applications should be "operatin by das dumkopfen!"