Trump Officials Discussed Secret Yemen Strike Plans on Signal, Accidentally Added Journalist

[candide]

About accountability..... 🙂

 

“Accountability is coming, because everybody in this room knows, if you’re a rifleman and you lose your rifle, they’re throwing the book at you. But if you’re a general who loses a war, you get a promotion,” Hegseth said, at a hearing memorable for warnings by Democrats that he lacked the experience for the job. “Everyone from the top, from the most senior general to the most lowly private, (we) will ensure that they’re treated fairly.”

 

The White House says the Yemen security breach is a hoax. Here’s why it’s not

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/27/politics/yemen-security-breach-trump-hegseth-waltz

[jerrymahoney]

17 hours ago, pomchop said:

maga are twisting themselves into pretzels trying to somehow deflect or blame biden or clinton or jfk or taylor swift or anyone or anything rather than stand up for once and admit that dear leader and his devoted band of incompetent boot lickers screwed up and should be fired or resign.

Look on the bright side: If Hegseth were to resign, there could be an opening for Matt Gaetz.

[SiSePuede419]

Goldberg, however, repeatedly reached out to the White House before and after publication to gain additional context on the Signal chat and ensure that publishing the full texts would not cause harm. In a response, Goldberg reported Wednesday, Leavitt described some of the information as sensitive and said the White House would prefer it not be published.

 

Dear Sir or Madam,

We prefer you not publish the 

Highly classified sensitive information 

We accidentally sent to you 

Because we're incompetent boobs

Who f'up and included a journalist on an illegal Signal Group chat. 

We never regret the error.

But cut us a break 

We're new at this treason

for no reason stuff 😆

[candide]

3 hours ago, Presnock said:

Yeah, IF and I emphasize IF the congress and IG's do a valid investigation not only of this chat call but how many chat calls like this have occurred since these amateurs took over their posts.  But seeing as how they blatantly lied before the Congressional hearing until it forced the magazine to publish even more of the chat and shows just how uncaring and no feelings of wrong doing by this crowd and Trump.  These people are a really dangerous crowd for Americans IMHO and since they all have money they couldn't care less than they do now.  Even if kicked out, how would they suffer?  Not at all.  Unless some heads roll then it will only get worse in my opinion.  I hope the original classification put on the military strike by the pentagon is revealed so that we can see just how terrible this breadh was.  I am  sure the local offices of Russia and China are sorry this happened as they will now lose this source.  But then again, since Trump is the President, he will probably just continue to pooh pooh it.  I did notice that some of the administration said "well  Biden and his folks used SIGNAL, but then some lower level folks left over from his administration clarified that no classified was allowed by the Biden folks on this type signal.  Scary for sure.  Even if the Russians or China saw the info, they most likely would not alert the Huti folks as it would mean that this SIGNAL chat line was compromised and the IDIOTS might begin using a really secure means of communication.

You are raising a critical issue. We know about this one because they got caught, but how many other Signal group chats occured? On  which subject?  Ukraine war? Negotiations with Russia? Iran? Gaza?

They all seemed familiar with using Signal for discussing classified 🙂 information.

[LosLobo]

13 minutes ago, candide said:

Not to me tion the fact that Witkoff was in Russia with his own phone, connected to the chat.

Witkoff says he did not have access to his phone when he was in Russia at the time of the chat.

Obviously, he left it in his Moscow accommodation for the FSB and intended to use Putin's office phone for a secure call home to report cease fire progress.

[SiSePuede419]

CIA Director Flips Out When Asked if Hegseth Was Drunk in Group Chat

 

Some salt,a twist of lime and 100% Triple sec, I mean Opsec, sir. 🫡

[MadAtMatrix]

21 hours ago, LosLobo said:

 

Vance's comment is pure nonsense.
 

A U.S.-led coalition of over 20 countries is already in play, formed to protect Red Sea shipping from attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels.
 

This initiative, launched under Biden, is similar to the post-9/11 "coalition of the willing" that rallied behind the U.S. in the past.
 

Notably, Vance had no complaints about Putin, who is doing nothing to help.
 

I wonder if the clown show texted the allies to warn them to take cover?

No need to tell Putin, Envoy Witkoff was in Russia with him when he got the text on his phone.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/pentagon-aware-of-attacks-claimed-by-houthis-on-ships-in-red-sea

 

How about you go read this story

 

 

[sqwakvfr]

42 minutes ago, candide said:

Not to mention the fact that Witkoff was in Russia with his own phone, connected to the chat.

When one is granted a security clearance all this is covered. 

[Walker88]

14 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Not sure why this anti American traitor from fake news outlet Atlantic isnt in Gitmo getting "questioned" on why he tries attacking his country and helping the terrorists in Yemen?

Wasnt it the same fools that concocted the suckers & losers hoax and others?

Disgusting they still walk free.

 

Edit to add, according to the forum left as the US is at war with Yemen we must cancel elections indefinitely like their bastion of democracy Ukraine. Or was that another insincere narrative?😅

How very fascist of you to blame the messenger! A pair of those snazzy MAGA golden sneakers and an autographed copy of Two Corinthians for you!

 

The "best people" (sic) effed up. They put serving US military in danger by posting battle plans, weapons and attack timing on a public social media platform. Goldberg was merely the recipient of their abject idiocy, which is to say their MAGAism. SIGNAL has been hacked by many countries.

 

So you want to torture (your thinly veiled "questioned" says torture) a guy just because Hegseth, Walz et al are incompetent amateur buffoons?

 

Yet more proof MAGA = fascist (as well as dumb).

 

In WWII there was a famous saying: Loose lips sink ships.

 

Hegseth's incompetence could have led to attacks on ships, shooting down of fighter aircraft, lots mayhem. Goldberg did the US a favor by noting it---AFTER the fact. Of course, a competent and responsible government would hold the erring parties accountable plus mandate rules for handling classified material, but this clownshow of an Administration is doing what you weakly tried to do: blame anybody but themselves.

 

It would be interesting to ask veterans and serving soldiers how much confidence they now have in a Sec Def who posts battle plans on a hackable social media platform.

 

Oh, and one of the chat participants was in Russia at the time of the conversation. Walz and Hegseth might as well have used a payphone.

[pomchop]

25 minutes ago, jerrymahoney said:

Look on the bright side: If Hegseth were to resign, there could be an opening for Matt Gaetz.

 

or just turn it all over to one of musks teenage mutant ninjas...they have probably played some war video games so likely more qualified than hegseth...

[bamnutsak]

What a Goat Rodeo.

 

Just admit you screwed up - Mike Waltz - maybe offer to resign, then trump can decide whether to accept the resignation.

 

Have an investigation.

 

Issue rules re: using personal devices, and non-secure third-party open source apps.

 

Simple steps that a barely competent administration should be able to handle.

 

I am curious about what other groups within the administration, are discussing on Signal. Bet more than a few are just as bad, maybe worse.

 

 

[xylophone]

26 minutes ago, candide said:

The White House says the Yemen security breach is a hoax. Here’s why it’s not......

 

Well they would say that wouldn't they......!!

 

And it would appear that the MAGA cronies just cannot stop lying, even when the female blonde White House spokesperson (forget her name now) publicly stated that everything they were going to hear from her on that podium was the truth, and immediately told a very large "porky pie" by suggesting that billions of dollars was given to Hamas to buy condoms.........which was later disproved and retracted.

 

Talk about "egg on your face", well this latest stuff up and the efforts to cover it up by lying, have also fallen flat because the US magazine the Atlantic on Wednesday published the full exchange of leaked messages between officials laying out plans for an attack on Yemen, as the White House fought fiercely to defend itself over the slip-up.

Details including the times of strikes and types of planes used were shown in screenshots of the chat between President Donald Trump’s top officials on the commercial Signal messaging app.

The White House reacted defiantly, launching a coordinated attack in which it slammed the magazine’s journalists as “scumbags” and dismissed the story as a “hoax”.

So more lies were told to cover up the previous lies, and lies seem to be the mainstay of this useless bunch of dipsticks, they would have difficulty running a kindergarten, let alone the White House/USA.

One last point regarding the remarks by Hegseth and Vance about bailing out the Europeans and their freeloading because of the actions taken by the Americans, it is worthwhile pointing out that: –
There was no official request from European Union officials that the United States carry out the strike in Yemen – they were simply informed, said a European diplomat and a European official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss diplomatic conversations. 

 

It looks like the main qualification to be on trump's team is the ability to lie, lie and lie again and it is neverending....."After the Atlantic published the full texts, Tulsi Gabbard was confronted on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered".

 

And she said it with a straight face........dipsticks all of them, and some.
 

[pomchop]

14 hours ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

Not sure why this anti American traitor from fake news outlet Atlantic isnt in Gitmo getting "questioned" on why he tries attacking his country and helping the terrorists in Yemen?

Wasnt it the same fools that concocted the suckers & losers hoax and others?

Disgusting they still walk free.

 

Edit to add, according to the forum left as the US is at war with Yemen we must cancel elections indefinitely like their bastion of democracy Ukraine. Or was that another insincere narrative?😅

1. So if this reporter was such a worthless scumbag tratitor why was he added to this group chat by waltz?

     Seems just maybe a national security advisor would not be buddy buddy with an anti american traitor            and a fake news outlet?  What other chats did the national security invite antiamerican traitors to view...did he also invite fox "news" and maybe the National Enquirer to take a look?

 

2.  Reminds me of all thos antifa thugs who repubs claimed attacked the capitol on jan 6 which begs the question why if they were antifa thugs as repubs lied over and over did trump pardon them?

 

3.  How sad that cult members can see no evil hear no evil and for once tell the simple truth and admit that dear leader and his minions screwed up and say we screwed up and apologize and it will not happen again?

[pomchop]

5 hours ago, Tug said:

Ditto and what happened to the felons YOUR FIRED mantra now’s a good time to use it.

He hires only the best and brightest as well as those who are very good at licking various body parts.

[candide]

15 minutes ago, pomchop said:

1. So if this reporter was such a worthless scumbag tratitor why was he added to this group chat by waltz?

     Seems just maybe a national security advisor would not be buddy buddy with an anti american traitor            and a fake news outlet?  What other chats did the national security invite antiamerican traitors to view...did he also invite fox "news" and maybe the National Enquirer to take a look?

 

2.  Reminds me of all thos antifa thugs who repubs claimed attacked the capitol on jan 6 which begs the question why if they were antifa thugs as repubs lied over and over did trump pardon them?

 

3.  How sad that cult members can see no evil hear no evil and for once tell the simple truth and admit that dear leader and his minions screwed up and say we screwed up and apologize and it will not happen again?

One MAGA poster already described it as a smart move to send an indirect message to Europe! 🤣

[pomchop]

1 minute ago, candide said:

One MAGA posters already described it as a smart move to send an indirect message to Europe! 🤣

Was the message don't trust us to blab like a high school kid and post secrets on FB? 

 

No doubt that will make europe and other countries very anxious to share intelligence re threats with the USA so our crackerjack team can share them and then claim oh it was no big deal...just specific details of what exact time bombs will drop.

[BLMFem]

6 minutes ago, candide said:

One MAGA posters already described it as a smart move to send an indirect message to Europe! 🤣

While another very active (and now quite desperate) apologist has come out and said "move along, nothing to see here".

And the clown show continues.

[Patong2021]

The Trump team has been caught in some serious lies. The hypocrisy and double standard of the USA is on display for all to see. The character assassination failed because the victim called their bluff. 

 

Because most of the US population is unaware of the event , and others  are ok with the dishonesty, this event will go away. However, the USA is in serious trouble. Another reason for other countries not to trust the USA.

 

In defence of Trump though, he relied on these idiots and they dropped the ball.  He was misled too. They lied to Trump in their coverup. Yes, he appointed them, but he often gives people a chance. That is one of his qualities, where he provides opportunity to people who would otherwise not get it. Whether or not this is an appropriate strategy for key roles is a different issue.

 

Trump is doing what any President would do and that is to try to minimize and downplay. Sure there is lots of blame to go around, Waltz Hegseth, Tulsi, but the one who  really screwed up is Vance. He was the senior person in the call. He should have shut it down as soon as they started using an unapproved channel that is open to hacking by Russia and China. As soon as Hegseth blundered with the release of classified military info, Vance  should have ended it. Hegseth is a real idiot and let his boss down.

[Walker88]

28 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Well they would say that wouldn't they......!!

 

And it would appear that the MAGA cronies just cannot stop lying, even when the female blonde White House spokesperson (forget her name now) publicly stated that everything they were going to hear from her on that podium was the truth, and immediately told a very large "porky pie" by suggesting that billions of dollars was given to Hamas to buy condoms.........which was later disproved and retracted.

 

 

MAGAs are pretty bad at lying, despite all the practice they get. They need to go for an advanced degree in Mendacity at POTUS fake university.

 

The original condom lie was, I think, $100 million. POTUS made it 'a couple hundred million', and then some MAGA congressman claimed it was $50 million to the Taliban for condoms. Now PressSec Leavitt has used some of POTUS inflation and made it billions.

 

Given how both Hamas and the Taliban are enemies, one would think MAGAs would praise Biden for giving birth control to enemies. When a bald face lie leads to cognitive dissonance, as the condom lie most surely does, you know you stepped across the border in MAGAstan.

[Inderpland]

10 hours ago, frank83628 said:

Oooh look who's  back, you stayed away since that immense loss on the 5th

Igor, is that you? Bloody hell tovaritch, Putin must be paying you buckets of rubles for you to still be peddling his lies!

[Walker88]

31 minutes ago, pomchop said:

1. So if this reporter was such a worthless scumbag tratitor why was he added to this group chat by waltz?

     Seems just maybe a national security advisor would not be buddy buddy with an anti american traitor            and a fake news outlet?  What other chats did the national security invite antiamerican traitors to view...did he also invite fox "news" and maybe the National Enquirer to take a look?

 

2.  Reminds me of all thos antifa thugs who repubs claimed attacked the capitol on jan 6 which begs the question why if they were antifa thugs as repubs lied over and over did trump pardon them?

 

3.  How sad that cult members can see no evil hear no evil and for once tell the simple truth and admit that dear leader and his minions screwed up and say we screwed up and apologize and it will not happen again?

Don't you think the boy you quoted deserves an extra crispy KFC bucket and a diet Coke for fitting so many MAGAisms into his opening impotent salvo?

 

"anti American traitor from fake news outlet". He later adds "hoax", which is the lie MAGAs try to put out when caught with their tiny mushroom showing.

 

The incompetence of the SIGNAL chat is bad enough, but the incompetence of the attempted cover up is even worse. POTUS first called it a "hoax", but Goldberg then posted the actual messages. Whoops!  And member of another weird cult Tulsi Gabbard lied to Congress about the nature of the messages, and then Goldberg outed her by posting her own messages. If she "misremembered" something from last Friday, then she's clearly suffering from dementia, which should get her removed.

 

Foreign liaison services were already hesitant to share intel with the US, after 45's theft of hundreds of highly classified documents and haphazard storage at his wedding planner facility. Now that they know senior officials discuss battle plans on public social media platforms they know are hackable, it's all over for liaison sharing.

 

The amount of idiocy and incompetence shown in just two months of this Presidential disaster is beyond the pale. Batten down the hatches, because they're just getting started.

 

The US is now the laughing stock of the world. You can be damn sure Iran has now given the Houtis the secrets to hacking SIGNAL, WhatsApp and all the other 'encrypted' platforms Iran hackers can breach. The only person probably angrier at Goldberg than Hegseth is Kim Jong-un, because he's likely been enjoying reading Hegseth et als SIGNAL chats, and now---maybe, just maybe---it might stop.

[Mavideol]

what we know and what we may never know because of the cover up and lying, Tul Gabbard and Ratcliffe should be locked up for lying and had the face to deny it, maga's are trying to defend the indefensible

The Signal attack plan messages: What we do (and don't) know

https://www.yahoo.com/news/signal-attack-plan-messages-dont-231910889.html

[LosLobo]

45 minutes ago, MadAtMatrix said:

 

How about you go read this story

 

That article only echos the rhetorical propaganda of a cult leader.

Vance et alia's take on Europe here is still nonsense.
 

A U.S.-led coalition of 20+ nations is already securing the Red Sea—launched under Biden, not Trump. Europe isn’t freeloading; they’re involved.

MAGA has swallowed the blue pill—stuck in their own propaganda, bashing allies while excusing enemies like Russia. Pathetic.
 

PS: Why you mad, Matrix? It’s obvious you were never offered the red.

[Mavideol]

if this had happened during democrats government, the maga's would be jumping and claiming cover ups and we all know how much more they would be finger pointing and etc....... we all know, but here the maga's did it, got caught, one of them claims taking full responsibility for the leak and walks away free and smiling, senile orange man is just talk nothing else

Maddow Blog | ‘But her emails’: Trump White House scandal puts Hillary Clinton’s server in a new light

https://www.yahoo.com/news/maddow-blog-her-emails-trump-190829182.html

[Walker88]

3 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Nice. They fopund their issue.

 

What are they gonna say when the real facts come out.

 

BTW, what about that chat was classified. Seems more like a play by play for someone maybe watching.

Are you purposely moronic, or is it natural?

 

Battle plans in real time. Perhaps you don't know, but even F-18s do not move at the speed of light. Ordering their launch would give adversaries time to prepare a defense, if they were privy to the SIGNAL chat.

 

US forces were put into harm's way due to the idiocy and incompetence of the Secretary of Defense.

 

You never served, and no doubt soldiers are just "suckers and losers" to you anyway, so you wouldn't care.

 

Real patriots do care.

[candide]

34 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

The Trump team has been caught in some serious lies. The hypocrisy and double standard of the USA is on display for all to see. The character assassination failed because the victim called their bluff. 

 

Because most of the US population is unaware of the event , and others  are ok with the dishonesty, this event will go away. However, the USA is in serious trouble. Another reason for other countries not to trust the USA.

 

In defence of Trump though, he relied on these idiots and they dropped the ball.  He was misled too. They lied to Trump in their coverup. Yes, he appointed them, but he often gives people a chance. That is one of his qualities, where he provides opportunity to people who would otherwise not get it. Whether or not this is an appropriate strategy for key roles is a different issue.

 

Trump is doing what any President would do and that is to try to minimize and downplay. Sure there is lots of blame to go around, Waltz Hegseth, Tulsi, but the one who  really screwed up is Vance. He was the senior person in the call. He should have shut it down as soon as they started using an unapproved channel that is open to hacking by Russia and China. As soon as Hegseth blundered with the release of classified military info, Vance  should have ended it. Hegseth is a real idiot and let his boss down.

Don't worry about Vance. He will pray and his prayer will be heard! 🤣

[frank83628]

29 minutes ago, Inderpland said:

Igor, is that you? Bloody hell tovaritch, Putin must be paying you buckets of rubles for you to still be peddling his lies!

Switched to Bitcoin these days. 

[Mavideol]

the guy doesn't know shxxxxxt and is not kept informed because he's too busy playing golf and that's much more important then running the country and taking care of its citizens

 

Trump claims he knows nothing about the four US soldiers missing in Lithuania hours after search was announced

 

https://au.news.yahoo.com/trump-claims-knows-nothing-four-035427460.html

[BLMFem]

8 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

Don't you think the boy you quoted deserves an extra crispy KFC bucket and a diet Coke for fitting so many MAGAisms into his opening impotent salvo?

 

"anti American traitor from fake news outlet". He later adds "hoax", which is the lie MAGAs try to put out when caught with their tiny mushroom showing.

 

The incompetence of the SIGNAL chat is bad enough, but the incompetence of the attempted cover up is even worse. POTUS first called it a "hoax", but Goldberg then posted the actual messages. Whoops!  And member of another weird cult Tulsi Gabbard lied to Congress about the nature of the messages, and then Goldberg outed her by posting her own messages. If she "misremembered" something from last Friday, then she's clearly suffering from dementia, which should get her removed.

 

Foreign liaison services were already hesitant to share intel with the US, after 45's theft of hundreds of highly classified documents and haphazard storage at his wedding planner facility. Now that they know senior officials discuss battle plans on public social media platforms they know are hackable, it's all over for liaison sharing.

 

The amount of idiocy and incompetence shown in just two months of this Presidential disaster is beyond the pale. Batten down the hatches, because they're just getting started.

 

The US is now the laughing stock of the world. You can be damn sure Iran has now given the Houtis the secrets to hacking SIGNAL, WhatsApp and all the other 'encrypted' platforms Iran hackers can breach. The only person probably angrier at Goldberg than Hegseth is Kim Jong-un, because he's likely been enjoying reading Hegseth et als SIGNAL chats, and now---maybe, just maybe---it might stop.

Given the bunch of utter clowns Trump has placed in the most sensitive positions of government would you be completely surprised if the exact same thing happened again?

Another thing to consider is that this came to light just because they effed up and added a journalist to the group chat (because that's what clowns do!)

How many other instances have they used the Signal chat where no journos but the Russians, Iranians, Chinese etc were privy to the conversation?

Who knows, but the one thing that is clear is that the whole bunch of chat members should be in jail awaiting trial.

[Walker88]

The coverup lies just continue to get worse, and Goldberg stuffs each lie back in their faces.

 

Now it's the Pentagon Spokesman, Sean Parnell, who said:

 

“hoax-peddlers at the Atlantic have already abandoned their ‘war plans’ claim” and that the Signal messages “confirm there were no classified materials or war plans shared. The Secretary was merely updating the group on a plan that was underway and had already been briefed through official channels.”

 

Whoops! Not only did The Atlantic not abandon the war plans claim, they published the chat, which directly noted the war plans. Also, claiming "already underway" is a lie, since Goldberg has time stamps from the convo, and the actual strike orders issued by Hegseth. Had it been hacked, the Houthis could have taken steps against the attackers.

 

Like their messiah, MAGAs are incapable of owning up to their incompetence or guilt.

 

Even Waltz, who "took full responsibility" both called Goldberg "scum" and claimed a staff member was responsible for including Goldberg. In MAGAstan, the term "full responsibility" has an odd meaning.