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Journalist publishes every damning text from war plans leak

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New Texts Prove Hegseth Leaked ‘Court-Martial’ Level Secrets

Summary

The Atlantic has published unredacted attack plans (non-paywall link) shared in a Signal group chat of senior Trump officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and DNI Tulsi Gabbard.

Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg released the full texts after officials denied sharing war plans or classified information, arguing transparency was necessary amid accusations of dishonesty.

The leaked messages detailed U.S. military strikes targeting Houthis in Yemen.

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A CIA spokesperson asked us to withhold the name of John Ratcliffe’s chief of staff, which Ratcliffe had shared in the Signal chain, because CIA intelligence officers are traditionally not publicly identified. Ratcliffe had testified earlier yesterday that the officer is not undercover and said it was “completely appropriate” to share their name in the Signal conversation. We will continue to withhold the name of the officer. Otherwise, the messages are unredacted.
The news outlet these fucktards accidentally leaked their detailed operational plan and timeline to...
... is still excersizing better OPSEC than the actual head of the CIA.
EDIT:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_2sODSpJo2A
Watch this clip of Mark Kelly with some pretty on point questions for Gabbard and Ratcliffe, listen to their responses, and go read through the full text chat.
Watch more of the hearings.
I think there's a pretty decent case Tulsi actually fucked up enough in her testimony that she actually did a perjury, Ratcliffe however, was both a bit more conciliatory and ever so slightly more honest, and also a bit better at just giving 'I don't recall' answers.
- I have been in fucking EVE Online corporations with better OPSEC than these guys.
  This would be hilarious if I didn't fucking live here.
  
  Oh yeah absolutely.
  I never partook in any of that myself, but yeah I've watched/listened to some hours of youtube videos doing their best to recount some of the more insane history of subterfuge, sabotage, getting rival clan members installed as spies, as CEOs and masters of coin in their enemy's corps, draining all their funds and liquidating an entire clan after a 3 year long deep undercover op with the spies regularly being on voicechats of some kind, and then just doing the deed and ghosting everyone ...
  ...fucking bonkers shit for a video game clans... but yeah, many of those kinds of stories show people with better understanding of spycraft and opsec than... the literal, actual, current heads of the CIA, DoD, etc.
  absolute clown world.
  
  i'm not even educated in opsec or sysadmin work and i have better fucking security lmao.
- "I don't recall" = "I plead the fifth"
  
  Exactly.
  Gabbard tried to be more clever than she actually is.
  
  Man, I miss old school Chappelle... Ever since he brought Elon Musk on stage I've just been hoping he'd go the fuck away.
  
  Same. Half Baked is one of my favourite stoner movies, this shit has been so disappointing.
- I don't understand. If they don't recall why can't they just open up their personal phone and check?
  
  ... So, the angle they are going with now is that this was a very serious offensive and nefarious act perpetrated against Mike Waltz, the guy who created the group chat.
  M Waltz is saying that well hey maybe this piece of shit Goldberg guy (the journalist) hacked his way into the chat? Maybe it was an inside job, or an outside cyberattack, and somebody swapped out Goldberg's phone number with another one of my contacts, so that when I tried to add a legit person who should have been in that group chat, it tricked me and added Goldberg!
  ... Yeah. These idiots are unfortunately in charge of investigating themselves, and at least Mike Waltz seems to be saying 'no it is utterly impossible that I accidentally added the wrong guy to the chat, I was clearly the victim of some kind of hack!'
  https://youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2gxzPEzjU
  Yes, Mike Waltz 'takes full responsibility'... by positing an inconsistent mess of possible cyberattacks/manipulation techniques that could have been used against him, absolutely no way he fat fingered a contact add, nope.
  
  Did they leave out some high ranking general with the same name? In their frantic CYA narrative isn't there some key person missing from the chat, and if so why not name them?
  
  I mean, you nailed it right there, if it was that, then they could just say who had the similar name.
  ... but that isn',t possible when everyone involved is a sentient piece of ratshit molded into the form of a human, that has absolutely no ability to ever admit any fault or take responsibility for anything, ever.
  These people are all completely unqualified, sociopathic opportunists with moral fiber composed of fucking anti matter, they'd instantly explode if they ever attempted to flex those moral muscles and develop any actual principles.
  I have, entirely seriously, known multiple meth/fentanyl addicts (in the process of detoxing) with better moral character, sense of responsibility for their actions, honesty, loyalty, and principles they strive to live by.
  
  Turns out that the current administration was just a bunch of DUI hires.
- When is the last time that a non-poor has ever gotten tried and convicted for perjury?
  It is the silent threat to keep poor people honest in court while allowing rich people and lawyers to lie their hearts out and use it for publicity because "they wouldn't lie under oath"
  https://daily.jstor.org/why-is-perjury-so-rarely-prosecuted/

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