Summary

Trump appointed Elon Musk, head of the DOGE, to investigate how a journalist was accidentally added to a Signal chat discussing military operations in Yemen.

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz admitted fault but could not explain how the contact was saved. Trump speculated that the journalist may have added himself.

The investigation will involve Musk’s technical team, the National Security Council, and White House lawyers.

A federal lawsuit challenges the use of Signal for government communication, alleging it violates federal law.

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    5 days ago

    This is actually good news. We knew there was never going to be a valid investigation anyway, so at least this forces the MuskRat to waste at least a portion of his resources on this cover-up. He’ll also certainly violate a few laws while doing it, so when they finally lose power, we can slam him with those charges as well, and lock him up for longer, and fine his estate another several billion in fines and damages.

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      I don’t have any faith whatsoever that, if we can oust the fascists from power, they’ll face any consequences at all. There will be no Nuremberg trials this time. They’re more likely to just get voted back in.

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        5 days ago

        No, not the next time. If we manage to wrest power from them again, it won’t be with the current bunch of weak, spineless weenies that comprise the current Dem leadership, like that fucking scumbag Chuck Schumer.

        Our liberators will be a new guard of Democrats, who are fucking pissed off as Hell, and it will be their pledge to purge MAGA from our government and our country by any means necessary, that gives them power. They will take power knowing they are expected to punish the MAGA Traitors to Hell and back, and they’ll do it.

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    6 days ago

    So next time it will be fucked up all the same, but using X private messages instead of Signal.

    That should do!

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    6 days ago

    He’s unqualified, but at this point I’m surprised they didn’t assign the case to a cactus named detective pokey.

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    6 days ago

    To be a pessimist here: This will be the end of signal. They will move in on the LLC and foundation soon citing national security reasons. Or they may have done so already but kept things under the rugs due to national security laws.

    And to play a conspiracy theorist for once: Maybe that was the plan all along. We all know how much Elmo hates Signal.

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    6 days ago

    Good, waste more millions of dollars having the Musktard “investigate.” Sounds like a perfect plan, you misplanted piece of fucking abortion, Trump.

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    6 days ago

    They should have used something more secure, like an AOL chatroom. Or public IRC.

    “Hey Mr. @BigBrain, can I have an @ on my user name too?”

    @BigBrain “Sure!”

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    “Elon Musk has offered to put his technical experts on this to figure out how this number was inadvertently added to the chat. Again, to take responsibility and ensure this can never happen again.”

    Take responsibility? That would be unprecedented.

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    6 days ago

    Just wait till Leon assigns Big Balls to the case – they’ll get to the bottom of this in a flash

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    6 days ago

    Haha! WTF! It’s a group chat in a messaging app - not some super high tech hacking operation!

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    7 days ago

    I dare say I’m beginning to suspect this Trump fellow may not be as competent as he claims