Starker on 21/3/2025 at 07:35
First they came for the children's football coach, and I did not speak out, because I was not a children's football coach...
baeuchlein on 21/3/2025 at 19:45
Maybe the French scientist should talk to the US vice president and remind him of his "freedom of speech" talk in Munich.
Nicker on 22/3/2025 at 06:21
Reminding MAGAts about their blatant hypocrisy is a fool's errand.
baeuchlein on 24/3/2025 at 10:39
Sorry, I forgot to set irony tags.;)
SD on 24/3/2025 at 14:02
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Maybe the French scientist should talk to the US vice president and remind him of his "freedom of speech" talk in Munich.
If we have any pretensions to fairness, we ought to hear the government's side of the story.
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However, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement Thursday that “any claim that his removal was based on political beliefs is blatantly false.”
“The French researcher in question was in possession of confidential information on his electronic device from Los Alamos National Laboratory — in violation of a non-disclosure agreement — something he admitted to taking without permission and attempted to conceal,” she said.Starker on 24/3/2025 at 22:11
Also, in the interest of fairness, it should be pointed out that this administration lies constantly and blatantly.
Los Alamos National Laboratory is the top secret laboratory in the US. It's the place where the first nuclear bombs were made. If he had really taken confidential information from there (and attempted to conceal it), he would already be in jail under enhanced interrogation, not just denied entry.
Starker on 25/3/2025 at 07:23
Speaking of handling classified information, Clinton's emails are once again turning in their grave:
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https://apnews.com/article/war-plans-trump-hegseth-atlantic-230718a984911dd8663d59edbcb86f2a)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top national security officials for President Donald Trump, including his defense secretary, texted war plans for upcoming military strikes in Yemen to a group chat in a secure messaging app that included the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic, the magazine reported in a story posted online Monday. The National Security Council said the text chain “appears to be authentic.”
Trump initially told reporters he was not aware that the highly sensitive information had been shared, 2 1/2 hours after it was reported. He later appeared to joke about the breach.
The material in the text chain “contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Iran-backed Houthi-rebels in Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing,” editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported.
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Goldberg said he received the Signal invitation from Mike Waltz, Trump’s national security adviser, who was also in the group chat.
Hegseth in his first comments on the matter attacked Goldberg as “deceitful” and a “discredited so-called journalist” while alluding to previous critical reporting of Trump from the publication. He did not shed light on why Signal was being used to discuss the sensitive operation or how Goldberg ended up on the message chain.
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So not only did they leak the plans to a journalist, it was someone they thought was "deceitful", "discredited" and not even someone they thought was a real journalist. And not only did they include him in the plans, they had this kind of person in their contact list to start with. Who else did they share this info with? Iran? The Taliban?
Also, from what was leaked, apparently their main concerns about the operation were that it might raise oil prices and that Europe might benefit from it:
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Vance in the chain of the messages questioned whether Americans would understand the importance of strikes that came with the risk of “a moderate to severe spike in oil prices” and if the timing of the operation might be a “mistake.”
“I am willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself,” Vance argued. “But there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc.”
Vance also made the case that Europe would benefit much more than the U.S. by the action aimed at decimating the Houthis and securing Red Sea shipping lanes.[...]
demagogue on 25/3/2025 at 17:40
The part that struck me is that it wasn't clear that Krasnov had really authorized the strike, or what he had or hadn't authorized; and Stephen Miller just took initiative and said it looked like a green light to him. Krasnov himself wasn't part of the decisionmaking, and they debated it as if his input wasn't even relevant, because of course it wasn't; he has no clue what's going on in foreign affairs unless he personally cashes in (development projects) or it involves a personal vendetta (Zelenskyy).
I saw one commentator correctly note that Krasnov always gives vague instructions or hints like a mob boss, always maintaining plausible deniability that he ever actually ordered or authorized anything.
So when he said he didn't know what reporters were talking about when they questioned him about the breach, it's easily believable. He's largely checked out from his own dictatorship.
Nicker on 25/3/2025 at 20:53
If you need a quick introduction, here's a video about the leaked war plans. And no, they are not the fluids dribbling out of the slack-jawed idiot above.
[video=youtube;tQJdw1i25Yc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQJdw1i25Yc[/video]
