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by nappy-doo 442 days ago
Well, it's clear this was leaked so they can throw Waltz to the wolves. "He was a rogue employee, and he is the only one who did this."

I am not conspiratorially minded, but I bet this was because Waltz had Jeffrey Goldberg's number. I bet Waltz leaked things to Goldberg in the past, and this is the Trump administration cutting ties with him in the most "sleep with the fishes" way possible.
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Cpoll 442 days ago
> throw Waltz to the wolves.

Except they forgot to actually throw him to the wolves? Or will that come later somehow?

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mdhb 442 days ago
That theory really doesn’t work. It’s not a situation where one person went rouge and did something. The thing about a group chat is that it’s literally by definition a group activity and that particular group now includes:

1. The head of the CIA

2. The secretary of defence

3. The vice president

4. The director of national intelligence

5. The White House chief of staff

6. Chief of Staff for the Secretary of the Treasury

7. Acting Chief of Staff for the Director of National Intelligence, and nominee for National Counterterrorism Center Director.

8. The Secretary of State

Plus a bunch of others including random trump political allies like Steven miller and witkoff, a journalist and an as yet unidentified person known only as “Jacob”.

But they collectively got together, and decided repeatedly to do this over 30 different occasions in just this story alone.

But don’t let anyone try to convince you this was some single persons problem, this was the absolute textbook definition of a conspiracy at the highest levels of government to knowingly and repeatedly violate the law with regards to both handling classified information and around government record keeping laws.

And this line they are trying to spin about signal was somehow approved for use is here in black and white proven to be wrong with the NSA making it clear there was a known vulnerability in the platform and it wasn’t even approved for unclassified but official use communications as recently as February 2025: https://www.scribd.com/document/843124910/NSA-full

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nappy-doo 442 days ago
Does this administration need to make sense?
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