How relatable. He who hasn’t ever accidentally shared classified information about military strikes with a random journalist using a commercial chat app on a private phone, let him first cast a stone at them.
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I mean, I haven’t, but that’s because I don’t play Warthunder.
(Signal isn’t a commercial app. It’s free as in freedom, free as in beer, and free as in “there’s no data kept on you to possibly sell”. The Signal Foundation is a 501©(3) non-profit, and the Signal app’s development and running costs are funded through the Signal Foundation. Please stop using this “commercial app” line.)
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We have not all done this. We are not all breaking the law and trying to hide our government actions in a group chat.
I have definitely never sent a text or Signal message to the wrong person or group as well. It’s actually not hard to simply look at the recipient(s) before you compose a message. You even have the opportunity to double-check the message recipient(s) before you hit Send.
I’m gonna be an age-bigot for a moment and say this is mostly a problem for Boomers and Zoomers.
Agreed. I’m in my 40’s, and in my life I couldn’t do anything wrong. When I was five, I took batteries from a Blockbuster on accident and cried until I returned them in fear of doing something wrong. I can’t understand the idea of not being blunt/honest and spending the extra time to deceive anyone.
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Way to normalize a massive failure of leadership and criminal act, USA Today.
Well, the newspaper is certainly living up to its name.
Trying to fucking normalize this, complicit media bitch. What a shit article.
uh no i’ve never accidentally added a journalist to a group chat while laughing about bombing people in the middle east.
You gotta admit, though, that 11-year-old boy might make a good Secretary of Defense after this one.
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Except my chats are not subject to public records act laws for oversight and public information, so if I choose to keep them off record it’s not illegal.
!That’s why the Trump administration’s Signalgate blunder was all anyone could talk about on news shows and social media, in workplaces, even in schools, said New York University psychology professor Tessa West.
Even West’s 11-year-old son came home from school Monday and confessed that he, too, had once added the wrong person to a group chat. “Mommy I did that, I did exactly what those Trump people did,” he told her.
“For 11-year-old boys, this is the most relatable thing that the Trump administration has done, which just shows you just how ubiquitous this experience is from Slack channels to group chats,” West said. “We’ve all done this.”!<
What a trash article. It reads like propaganda. This kind of reporting is frustrating. Framing a serious security breach—like the Trump administration’s Signal group chat blunder—as relatable because “even an 11-year-old has done it” feels disingenuous at best. Using a child’s anecdote to soften the impact of a significant government mistake trivializes the issue and distracts from the consequences of the breach.
We’re not talking about accidentally texting the wrong person in a school group chat. We’re talking about high-level officials mistakenly including someone in a discussion tied to sensitive military operations. That’s not “relatable”—that’s a failure in operational security, and it deserves scrutiny, not spin.
We’re also talking about high-level people illegally using a non-qualified app to avoid federal record keeping laws.
It’s nothing, just a little bit of light treason.
Those are balls.
signalgate blunder
Can we fucking not add “-gate” to the end of everything that happens? It’s so overused that it diminishes the importance of actually-dangerous events like this one.
It all started with that Watergategate scandal.
What happens if we have a scandal about water?
Hydrogate
Rolls off the tongue better than aquagate would, that’s for sure.
Avoiding hackneyed terms would literally be a Game Changer!
It’s true, I accidently share top secret information about bombing apartments every now and again. Whoopsie daisy.
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I might even bomb Yemen next month… I mean I’m not going to tell a reporter about it, though, I’m not as stupid as an 11-year-old boy.
umm, no. I use work chats for work, and personal chats for personal. I might accidentally add the wrong colleague to a work chat, or wrong friend to a personal chat, but I’m never going to accidentally add a friend to a work chat because I don’t mix work and personal chats.
This article goes to great lengths to make it appear as if something hugely important really isn’t that big a deal. No, it’s not “relatable”. No, it isn’t “something we’ve all done”. This is treason.
They broke countless laws, protocols, and regulations that were put in place for good reason, by people who were clearly much more careful and intelligent than them. Still, even these stupid, arrogant assholes should have known better.
I will never read this MAGA apologist garbage again.
The secretary of defense is the one who decides what’s classified as he is the head of the DoD.
With that being said I think it is kind of expected that the secretary of defense is not the point of weakness.
