Trump Officials Accidentally Text Journalist War Plans
... What do you think?“We should be okay as long as terrorists don’t have the internet.”“A president’s cabinet is only as good as its drunkest member.”“So all of a sudden a journalist doesn’t want to know things?”
Private contact details of the most important security advisers to U.S. President Donald Trump can be found on the internet. DER SPIEGEL reporters were able to find mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to the top officials.
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To do so, the reporters used commercial people search engines along with hacked customer data that has been published on the web. Those affected by the leaks include National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use, with some of them linked to profiles on social media platforms like Instagram and LinkedIn. They were used to create Dropbox accounts and profiles in apps that track running data. There are also WhatsApp profiles for the respective phone numbers and even Signal accounts in some cases
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DER SPIEGEL reporting has demonstrated, though, that privately used and publicly accessible telephone numbers belonging to her and Waltz are, in fact, linked to Signal accounts.
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DER SPIEGEL sent the provider a link to Hegseth’s LinkedIn profile and received a Gmail address and a mobile phone number in return, in addition to other information. A search of leaked user data revealed that the email address and, in some cases, even the password associated with it, could be found in over 20 publicly accessible leaks. Using publicly available information, it was possible to verify that the email address was used just a few days ago.
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Waltz’s mobile number and email address could be found using the same service provider. The mobile phone number could even be found using a people search engine popular in the U.S. DER SPIEGEL reporters were also able to find several passwords for Waltz’s email address in leaked databases. The information also led to Waltz’s profiles for Microsoft Teams, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Signal.
The Russians, Chinese, Israelis, North Koreans and likely other states already know this. They're probably pissed at the DER SPIEGEL revelations. Sloppiest national security edifice ever. AMATEURS!Whack9 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 4:46 pmPrivate email addresses, phone numbers, passwords for top US officials found online:
https://www.spiegel.de/international/wo ... b705521fb7
Article Lots more at the link.How do you explain this you drunk bastard?
Obedient parrots:White House Dismisses The Atlantic's War Plan Revelations By Criticizing Headline
The magazine published the Signal group chat texts detailing the Yemen airstrikes, but the Trump administration seized on the phrase "attack plans."
... Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Goldberg said it was not clear what she is arguing.
“They’re talking about attacking and killing terrorists using various weapon systems,” he said. “She’s just playing some sort of weird semantic game. I don’t understand.”
Others in the White House picked up Leavitt’s theme....
... Jesse Watters also downplayed the blunder, likening it to someone’s Aunt Mary being accidentally invited to a group chat and ending up knowing “all your raunchy plans for your bachelor party.”
Watters then tried to discredit Goldberg as “not a good reporter” and “one of the biggest hoax artists around” who’d “heard some things he probably shouldn’t have” but ultimately it was just “a wee bit of a security breach.”
It's way worse than just Waltz. PINO's entire national security team broke the law and endangered America by using Signal.Jasmine wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 7:28 pmThe conservative media downplaying this group chat fiasco is just embarrassing. It’s hypocrisy at its absolute worst.
Every time a Biden appointee or official committed an egregious error or act, the same pundits would erupt in anger and demand that the culprit be fired. In fact, one of the common criticisms they’d level at Biden is, “He doesn’t fire anyone.”
I actually heard one pundit praise Tump for having empathy for that group chat guy. Disgusting.
What this group chat guy did may have been a mistake, but it is an unacceptable one to make. He should be axed.
It is completely unsurprising that they reacted that way.Jasmine wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 7:28 pmThe conservative media downplaying this group chat fiasco is just embarrassing. It’s hypocrisy at its absolute worst.
Every time a Biden appointee or official committed an egregious error or act, the same pundits would erupt in anger and demand that the culprit be fired. In fact, one of the common criticisms they’d level at Biden is, “He doesn’t fire anyone.”
I actually heard one pundit praise Tump for having empathy for that group chat guy. Disgusting.
What this group chat guy did may have been a mistake, but it is an unacceptable one to make. He should be axed.
• Hacking. Mr. Obama presided over the biggest data breach in the federal government’s history, at the Office of Personnel Management. The hack exposed the personnel files of millions of federal employees and may end up being used for everything from identity theft to blackmail and espionage. OPM Director Katherine Archuleta, the president’s former political director, had been warned repeatedly about security deficiencies but took no steps to fix them.
O Really wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 10:17 amI saw a Republican squirrel once. We had a round patio table on our deck that got covered in ice. A squirrel, used to finding sunflower seeds or something around, leapt from a nearby branch onto the table and started skidding toward the edge, all the while backpedaling as fast as he could before sliding off the table and landing not on his feet on the deck. A normal squirrel would have said "opps, didn't see that ice" but this Republican squirrel got up acted like "yeah, that's exactly what I wanted to do'" and probably told his friends he never skidded because there never was any ice and besides the dog moved the table.
(true story, except maybe the part about he squirrel talking to his friends)
We've got bunches here.
neoplacebo wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 5:00 pmSurviving a second trump term is not what will happen. I've already given it a year and then revised it to less than a year about a week ago. I think they're gonna pull out all the stops before the mid term elections in an effort to avert them altogether. They are out of control and wobbling at ever increasing intensity.
Anyway, I noticed this story and as I read it I realized that I knew guys like what the author is talking about. The story is about how the participants in the war plans chat group resemble the guys in a boys group chat.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/knew-signal- ... 00394.html
I agree, hominy. 
The leftist squirrel was under the table playing with his nuts, collecting data. A republican elephant walked by and stomped that shit out.O Really wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 10:17 amI saw a Republican squirrel once. We had a round patio table on our deck that got covered in ice. A squirrel, used to finding sunflower seeds or something around, leapt from a nearby branch onto the table and started skidding toward the edge, all the while backpedaling as fast as he could before sliding off the table and landing not on his feet on the deck. A normal squirrel would have said "opps, didn't see that ice" but this Republican squirrel got up acted like "yeah, that's exactly what I wanted to do'" and probably told his friends he never skidded because there never was any ice and besides the dog moved the table.
(true story, except maybe the part about he squirrel talking to his friends)
What's to leak when everything they're doing openly is so ugly and incompetent?GoCubsGo wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 1:36 pmThe current DonOld Whitehouse has been remarkably leak free compared to the first one.
Gotta feeling as more shit goes south, that'll change.
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/19 ... 7141754322
Taxpayers' Tab For Trump's Second-Term Golf Excursions Crosses $26 Million Mark
He has now traveled to one of his golf resorts on nine of the ten weekends since taking office in January. It is his seventh trip to his Palm Beach, Florida, country club.
... It is his 14th day at that course and 18th day on one of his courses since his Jan. 20 inauguration, meaning he has spent more than a quarter of his 69 days in office in his second term playing golf....
That more than $26 million figure is based on 2017 costs, which are almost certainly higher today.
During his first term, Trump’s insistence on playing golf at his own resorts cost taxpayers a total of $151.5 million, with Trump spending 293 days on one of his courses over those four years.
Plus, he makes money from each trip by renting services to aides and SS. There's always a grift. 
Even the creepy, unqualified PINO team should be better than this.
