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neohippie

(1,226 posts)
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 01:43 PM Mar 24

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

Source: The Atlantic

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen.

I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.

This is going to require some explaining.



Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151



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Just wow, but her emails

Trump security team clearly violating operational security and likely the records act using Signal app and setting messages to self delete
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Walleye

(39,776 posts)
1. Wow, 11 o'clock in the morning and drunk already.I guess. He was so drunk he couldn't sweat the small stuff.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 01:47 PM
Mar 24

Like top security war plans. How’s that Nuclear arsenal doing, drunken Pete?

unblock

(55,031 posts)
6. "Accidentally" is hardly the right word for what is, at best, staggeringly gross negligence.
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 02:38 PM
Mar 24

mdbl

(6,284 posts)
8. Trump's administration is leakier than a colander
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 03:20 PM
Mar 24

Their filing system probably consists of the cabinet's bathrooms.

Torchlight

(4,554 posts)
9. "incompetence, thy name is trump'
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 03:29 PM
Mar 24

His will go down as the most head-up-its-own-ass administration in the history of history. And it's only the third month.

Karasu

(1,000 posts)
13. This is EXACTLY the level of competence anyone should have expected from a man who talks at the level of a 4th grader
Mon Mar 24, 2025, 07:06 PM
Mar 24

and goes out of his way to fill his cabinet with the most unqualified people possible.

Rhiannon12866

(232,826 posts)
15. I can't help suspecting he did that on purpose, but then I doubt he knows the competent people
Tue Mar 25, 2025, 05:38 AM
Mar 25

He only chose "loyalists," those he knew personally, either friends of relatives, his attorneys or those he saw on Fox TV.

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