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Date: March 26, 2025 at 12:03:18
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: clowns to the right, bozos to the left... |
URL: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/gabbard-signal-government-devices-cybersecurity-00250731 |
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lee must be so proud...
Gabbard says Signal comes ‘pre-installed’ on government devices
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard pointed to guidance issued by CISA in December that recommended “highly targeted individuals,” including government personnel, "use only end-to-end encrypted communications." | J. Scott Applewhite/AP
By Maggie Miller
03/26/2025 12:32 PM EDT
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified to House Intelligence Committee members Wednesday that encrypted messaging app Signal comes “pre-installed” on government devices — a potentially major shift in official communications on the heels of a massive Chinese government-linked hack of U.S. telecommunications networks last year.
Gabbard’s comments are likely to raise further concerns from lawmakers about the security of the transmission of sensitive information after The Atlantic reported that top Trump officials used Signal to help plan a recent strike on the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.
The spy chief pointed to guidance issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in December that recommended “highly targeted individuals,” including government personnel, “use only end-to-end encrypted communications.”
“They named Signal as an app as an example of such an end-to-end encrypted messaging app,” Gabbard told the House Intelligence Committee during the panel’s annual worldwide threats hearing Wednesday morning. This came the day after CIA Director John Ratcliffe testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that Signal was uploaded to his CIA devices within days of his confirmation.
The CISA guidance was issued following the major breach of U.S. telecommunications providers by Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon last year, which allowed hackers to tap into the phones of top U.S. officials, including President Donald Trump and JD Vance.
Spokespeople for CISA and ODNI did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The app has been largely unauthorized for use on government-issued devices in the past. The Defense Department Office of the Inspector General issued multiple reports condemning a top Pentagon official in 2021 for using Signal to communicate, and the National Security Agency reportedly warned employees last month of the vulnerabilities of using Signal, stating that the app was “a high value target to intercept sensitive information.”
Cybersecurity experts told POLITICO earlier this week that the app should not be used to discuss classified information and stressed the need for government officials to use authorized and more secure means of communication. Meanwhile, current and former Pentagon officials have said that details such as the timing of an ongoing battle sequence, as discussed in the Signal chat, are typically “highly classified and protected.”
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Date: March 26, 2025 at 22:29:01
From: The Hierophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: But wait, it get's even better! |
URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/defiant-white-house-switches-to-attack-mode-and-blames-signalgate-on-coordinated-media-campaign/ar-AA1BIzI3?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=9efa3a21534147349c55a2f50249c0fb&ei=18 |
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Because of COURSE they will blame everyone and anyone
other than themselves. Do they REALLY think THAT many
Americans are THAT stupid?
"Defiant White House switches to attack mode and blames
Signalgate on ‘coordinated’ media campaign
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was in
attack mode on Wednesday as she blamed the media,
Democrats, and presumably even some Republicans in the
House and Senate for trying to “sow chaos” in the White
House with their response to the Signal text chain
debacle.
Leavitt spoke at a shortened White House press briefing
where she battled with reporters over whether top
officials including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had
lied about whether the information included in the text
messages published by The Atlantic earlier Wednesday –
which included precise attack timings, targets, and
information about US assets – was or should have been
classified.
During her remarks, she said that the administration’s
critics were collaborating in a “coordinated campaign
to try and sow chaos in the White House.”
“If this story proves anything, it proves that
Democrats and their propagandists in the mainstream
media know how to fabricate, orchestrate, and
disseminate a misinformation campaign quite well. And
there’s arguably no one in the media who loves
manufacturing and pushing hoaxes more than Jeffrey
Goldberg,” claimed Leavitt.
Leavitt repeatedly referred reporters to statements put
out by Hegseth in which he denied that any classified
information was included in the text messages
inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief,
Jeffrey Goldberg, after he was accidentally included in
a group chat on the Signal messaging app where senior
administration figures were discussing the upcoming
bombing of Houthi targets in Yemen.
Hegseth, meanwhile, dodged a reporter’s question about
whether he had gone through the formal procedure to
declassify any of the information before sending them
to other principles.
The message chain was formed on the day of the attack,
March 15, and involved a detailed discussion about US
efforts to combat Houthi aggression against US vessels
and merchant ships in the Red Sea, including
deliberations over Europe’s role in the conflict.
Messages sent by Hegseth contained a detailed timeline
of when U.S. forces would strike Houthi targets in
Yemen, while one sent by Waltz in the moments
afterwards described a “collapsed” apartment building
belonging to a girlfriend of one of the targets.
Leavitt would go on to ask reporters and viewers
whether they “trusted” the word of the secretary of
Defense over Goldberg’s, in response to a question
about why precise details about an imminent US strike
would not be classified — a sign that the White House
plans to lean on an old favorite strategy, attacking
the media, while completely ignoring the criticism from
experts including current and former officials as well
as top Republicans and Democrats on various committees
dealing with the intelligence community and armed
services.
And at one point, the press secretary grew visibly
frustrated about questions over whether the president
would hold his national security adviser or secretary
of Defense accountable for what many experts outside of
the administration are calling an unprecedented intel
breach.
“If anybody has another question, there's a lot of
different things going on in the world,” an annoyed
Leavitt suggested.
“Those are some really s****y war plans,” the secretary
wrote Wednesday on Twitter. “This only proves one
thing: Jeff Goldberg has never seen a war plan or an
“attack plan” (as he now calls it). Not even close. As
I type this, my team and I are traveling the [Indo-
Pacific Command] region, meeting w/ Commanders (the
guys who make REAL “war plans”) and talking to troops.
“We will continue to do our job, while the media does
what it does best: peddle hoaxes,” added the secretary,
whose previous employer settled for hundreds of
millions of dollars after being accused of knowingly
peddling false narratives about the 2020 election.
The Defense chief is now facing resounding calls for
his resignation from Democrats, who argue that the
sharing of such information in the minutes before a
strike took place directly put US service members’
lives in danger.
Trumpworld, meanwhile, is circling the wagons while
voices on the anti-interventionist right rally in his
defense. Some have attempted to center blame on Michael
Waltz, the national security adviser to Donald Trump
who is seen as a neoconservative by some of Trump’s
populist supporters; Waltz was the official who
initially set up the group chat in which Hegseth shared
the allegedly classified information."
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Date: March 26, 2025 at 12:20:02
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: clowns to the right, bozos to the left... |
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i have been watching and laughing. i disagree with
dfems who say the y should be fired. i'd rather the4
stay so we know what we arte dealking with.,
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Date: March 27, 2025 at 10:47:16
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: clowns to the right, bozos to the left... |
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so, you are rooting for the release of classified
conversation to the press?
Just want to make sure I understand you.
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Date: March 26, 2025 at 16:56:21
From: ao, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: clowns to the right, bozos to the left... |
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I agree Chas.. in fairytales it’s always so cool how.. we’ll, you know, how
no matter how many times good ol’ Wile E goes over that cliff he’s always
right back at giving that frickin’ beep beep grief…
But this ain’t a fairytale.. and these jokers need to go splat when they do
like that.. otherwise Boris and Natasha gonna give all of us what for! And
I’m telling you Chas nobody like deal with Boris.. and Natasha? well, that
chick is more than trouble… way more!
No, Chas, for my money all these clowns gotta go.
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Date: March 27, 2025 at 07:29:02
From: chaskuchar@stcharlesmo, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: clowns to the right, bozos to the left... |
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Pray, children of Our King and Lord Jesus Christ, pray:
death will come to a world leader.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putin-
will-die-soon-34940106
when Zelinski said this i thought of this message.
http://www.earthboppin.net/talkshop/cbibrel/messages/259
88.html
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Date: March 26, 2025 at 12:56:55
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: clowns to the right, bozos to the left... |
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we already know what we are dealing with...IDIOTS! they all need to be locked up...right up to and including their boss, the chief orange turd...
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