Working the playbook. Step 1: Deny
this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2025
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Having complete morons in charge does confer particular tactical advantages.
downs entire glass of whiskey "wasn't me"
Pete blames it on his wife who he's going to beat later on. She should have told him that journalists can take screenshots.
Even if everyone in the chat had a need-to-know, you do not use insecure 3rd-party software for classified communications. Secure networks already exist for this.
Not to mention why they are using it in the first place... so they can't be FOIA'd
Doesn't protect from FOIA, if you use your phone for official communication and it stores records, your phone can be FOIA'd.
Isn't the issue that Signal messages aren't stored on the phone and can be set to auto delete after some time? So there's no tracking of official federal business? Or am I thinking about this the wrong way?
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He's going with the Shaggy defense? "It wasn't me". I mean, it works for them. It will probably all blow over because no one is going to do anything. But this should absolutely destroy him.
🎵Journalist caught me on Signal (It wasn't me)
He saw me schemin' on Yemen (It wasn't me)
Even list of ordinance (It wasn't me)
He even caught me on a screenshot (It wasn't me)
He saw the bombs dropping on Sanaa (It wasn't me)
Heard the words the CIA told me (It wasn't me)
Late night host laughter getting louder (It wasn't me)
Shouldn't have drunk that vodka!🎶
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"Uh, wasn't me." -Sec Def
"You're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again...This is a guy who peddles in garbage.
Hegseth then added, "oh wait, that's me."
You dumb fuck, there are screenshots of all of it, plus your own people admitted it
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Don't forget Tuli was on the chat too, I sure do feel safe with our inept leaders.
Definitely showing her whole anti war schtick was always bullshit. JD Vance was the only one pushing back in that thread, and not for the right reasons.
Oops
Prove that the sender of that message doesn't match the cryptographic fingerprint of Hegseth. If he didn't send it, then it wont match.
Signal allows you to verify all your contacts in the group chat.
This is so easy to solve. Jfc
The journalist just has to show the safety number of the person who sent it, and hegseth has to verify it with his device. They're obviously already in each others contacts, or at least are aware of each other's presence in the group chat. Its pretty hard to ignore some random journalist entering the chat since it alerts the entire group.
What makes signal great is, yes, privacy, but also the authentication of your contacts. You know you can't possibly be talking to someone else's device if you have verified their safety number.