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Republican senators break ranks to call for investigation of Signal leak scandal
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I was one of the American military who had access to classified information. I knew better than this. I've worked with enlisted members as young as 19 or 20 years old who knew better than this. When the head of the DoD, the National Security Advisor, Director of the CIA, the Vice President, and the Director of National Intelligence do this, it's not because they don't know better. It's because they're trying to hide their communications in violation of the Presidential Records Act, and they know full well what they're doing is wrong. ETA: And they also compromised a military operation putting the lives of American soldiers at risk, which would land me or any of my enlisted colleagues in Fort Leavenworth for an extended stay, so there's that.
I'd love to know what the American military thinks of all this. I'm sure there's a lot of pro Trump in the military, but you'd think brazen violations of opsec should leave you worried about who's putting your lives at risk...
One story about this for you. MI during the first Trump presidency. There was much said in my office when he tweeted top secret satellite imagery in 2019. My chief went around the shop after this and sat with everybody, and made sure they knew what happened, how this leak got an Intel source burned, how much time/money/effort was wasted from that burned source, how much harder it will be for us to keep the boots-on-ground out there safe, etc.
The tone of the workplace was set after that: "We are here to do our job and keep the guys in the field from getting killed. Our leaders have, and will continue, to make that mission difficult."