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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Their War Plans

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  • jon-nycJ Offline
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    jon-nyc
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    #191

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    Only non-witches get due process.

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    • AxtremusA Offline
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      #192

      Hegseth had Signal messaging app installed on an office computer

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/23/hegseth-signal-pentagon-computer/

      The move was intended to circumvent a lack of cellphone service in much of the Pentagon and enable easier communication with other Trump officials, said people familiar with the matter.

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      • 89th8 Offline
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        I mean, thanks for the reporting but of course they used Signal to make it easier to chat with others (officials or not). I is a widely used app in DC (reporters, government officials, intel folks) the difference is folks would never use it for classified conversations, it was always "Let's meet in XYZ SCIF to discuss this". Pure lazy/amateur hour.

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          #194

          https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/hegseth-chief-of-staff-pentagon-leaving-00308721

          Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s controversial chief of staff, who played a central role in a power struggle that gripped the Pentagon, will exit the agency today.

          Joe Kasper was originally expected to transition to another role within the Defense Department, but is now planning to go back to government relations and consulting, he said in an interview.

          He will continue to support and advise the Pentagon, he said, but as a special government employee. This will limit him to performing temporary jobs for just 130 days a year.

          A former longtime chief of staff to indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter, Kasper was a leading figure in the firings of senior adviser Dan Caldwell, Hegseth deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg. The trio were ousted last week in a leak investigation.

          Some officials saw the wave of firings as a bid by Kasper to consolidate power.

          “Kasper did not like that those guys had the secretary’s ear,” a person familiar with the dynamic said. “He did not like that they had walk-in and hanging-out privileges in the office. He wanted them out. It was a knife fight.”

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          • Doctor PhibesD Offline
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            Kasper the unfriendly Ghost?

            I was only joking

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            • MikM Offline
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              “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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              😂
              • jon-nycJ Offline
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                Only non-witches get due process.

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                • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

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                  #198

                  @jon-nyc said in The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Their War Plans:

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                  Yeah, maybe he lost his position, but that doesn't mean he can't be in the group. LOL. After all, Sec Hegseth had is wife and agent in. 😄

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                    #199

                    For those keeping score at home:

                    • Waltz lasted 9.2 Scaramuccis

                    • Waltz’s tenure was almost 5x that of Trump’s first NSA in his first term (Flynn), 101 days vs 22.

                    Only non-witches get due process.

                    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                      #200

                      As much as I wasn’t a fan, I imagine his replacement will be worse. Either someone sinister or of middling competence. Think Lavrov or Witkoff.

                      Only non-witches get due process.

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                        #201

                        I thought Rubio would be the first through the door. I was wrong.

                        I can only hope Witkoff soon follows Waltz through the door.

                        https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/01/trump-officials-alarmed-by-envoys-solo-talks-with-putin-nyp-a88946

                        Elbows up!

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                        • 89th8 Offline
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                          I find it interesting Waltz has left now that the story has slowly died its natural death in the newscycle.

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                          • MikM Offline
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                            Yeah, that occurred to me as well.

                            “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                              He gave up a solid house seat for 100 days of this plus an embarrassing international story.

                              Only non-witches get due process.

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                                Now they’re talking about giving him the UN ambassador role.

                                That would mean a senate hearing where they’d get to wash their dirty signalgate laundry publicly again, but this time with a modicum of respect for the questioners.

                                Only non-witches get due process.

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                                • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                  Now they’re talking about giving him the UN ambassador role.

                                  That would mean a senate hearing where they’d get to wash their dirty signalgate laundry publicly again, but this time with a modicum of respect for the questioners.

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                                  @jon-nyc said in The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Their War Plans:

                                  Now they’re talking about giving him the UN ambassador role.

                                  Would that be a promotion technically? Clearly less influential under normal circumstances.

                                  Only non-witches get due process.

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                                    Maybe Trump thinks it's pronounced the "unambassador" role?

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                                    • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                      @jon-nyc said in The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Their War Plans:

                                      Now they’re talking about giving him the UN ambassador role.

                                      Would that be a promotion technically? Clearly less influential under normal circumstances.

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                                      @jon-nyc said in The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Their War Plans:

                                      @jon-nyc said in The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Their War Plans:

                                      Now they’re talking about giving him the UN ambassador role.

                                      Would that be a promotion technically? Clearly less influential under normal circumstances.

                                      Strictly restricted to information on a need to know basis.

                                      He is banished to the respectable political wilderness of diplomats. Essentially a communications director with the privilege of a holding diplomatic passport. Great opportunity to schmooze.

                                      Elbows up!

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                                      • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                                        https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/hegseth-chief-of-staff-pentagon-leaving-00308721

                                        Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s controversial chief of staff, who played a central role in a power struggle that gripped the Pentagon, will exit the agency today.

                                        Joe Kasper was originally expected to transition to another role within the Defense Department, but is now planning to go back to government relations and consulting, he said in an interview.

                                        He will continue to support and advise the Pentagon, he said, but as a special government employee. This will limit him to performing temporary jobs for just 130 days a year.

                                        A former longtime chief of staff to indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter, Kasper was a leading figure in the firings of senior adviser Dan Caldwell, Hegseth deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg. The trio were ousted last week in a leak investigation.

                                        Some officials saw the wave of firings as a bid by Kasper to consolidate power.

                                        “Kasper did not like that those guys had the secretary’s ear,” a person familiar with the dynamic said. “He did not like that they had walk-in and hanging-out privileges in the office. He wanted them out. It was a knife fight.”

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                                        @taiwan_girl said in The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Their War Plans:

                                        A former longtime chief of staff to indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter, Kasper was a leading figure in the firings of senior adviser Dan Caldwell, Hegseth deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg. The trio were ousted last week in a leak investigation.

                                        Follow up

                                        The White House has lost confidence in a Pentagon leak investigation that Pete Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides last month, after advisers were told that the aides had supposedly been outed by an illegal warrantless National Security Agency (NSA) wiretap.

                                        The extraordinary explanation alarmed the advisers, who also raised it with people close to JD Vance, because such a wiretap would almost certainly be unconstitutional and an even bigger scandal than a number of leaks.

                                        https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/27/hegseth-pentagon-leak-investigation-wiretap

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                                          I was only joking

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