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#waltz

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Republicans can't stop making pathetic excuses for war chat fiasco

dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/30

As fury mounts over the Trump administration’s leaking of classified military operations in an unsecure Signal group chat that included a reporter who did not have a security clearance, GOP lawmakers have continued to downplay the seriousness of the situation.

Daily KosRepublicans can't stop making pathetic excuses for war chat fiascoCongressional Cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him—no matter how disgraceful or lawless his actions. ...
#Signal#Trump#Hegseth

Another Senior Republican Endorses Independent Probe Into Signal Chat

newsweek.com/another-senior-re

Oklahoma Senator James Lankford is the latest senior Republican to endorse an independent probe into how President Donald Trump's national security officials ended up discussing military plans with a journalist on the messaging app Signal.

James Lankford
Newsweek · Another Senior Republican Endorses Independent Probe Into Signal ChatBy Giulia Carbonaro

Wollte Trump Waltz rauswerfen – oder nur Zeit schinden?
Vance drängt, Trump zögert.
Was wie Kontrolle aussieht, ist stille Machtverschiebung.
Waltz war nur der Test:
Geht jemand über Bord – oder hält Trump noch das Ruder?
Die Antwort ist unbequem:
Vance räumt auf. Trump hält still.

#Trump#Vance#Waltz
Continued thread

"Buried in the messages between National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other cabinet members is a horrible demonstration of narrative engineering.

"While the legacy media fixates on ‘classified information’, the real story is actually not the incompetence of these people but instead how they casually discussed spinning the bombing of Yemen—an already battered and famine-ravaged nation—into a palatable story for the American and global public. Let’s have a look":
thespectaclemag.substack.com/p by Deaglan O'Mulrooney 🧶

the spectacle · how the Empire sells its massacres.By Deaglan O'Mulrooney

According to CBS News, Mike Waltz is joining the Vance's on their trip to Greenland. The part they didn't say? When Air Force Two lands in Greenland, they will suddenly notice Jeffrey Goldberg was in the plane with them the whole way.

Private data of top security advisers to US President Donald Trump can be accessed online, German news magazine Der Spiegel reported Wednesday, adding to the fallout from embarrassing revelations of security slips by his administration.
#Trump #data #Hegseth #Gabbard #Waltz #Signal #infosec

youtube.com/watch?v=lM1BfWZ21OM

Add this to #signalgate (with a little help from our friends ...):
Pete #Hegseth, Mike #Waltz, Tulsi #Gabbard: Private #Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online

spiegel.de/international/world

> Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including mobile phone numbers, is freely accessible on the internet.