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When you get to a certain level, you believe the rules don't apply to you. There are many examples of this, but I won't list any for fear of promoting false equivalencies.
In the Trump Whitehouse, not only do you believe the rules don't apply to you, but actually the rules don't apply to you.
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most people generally agreed with them but they also tried to pick people of talent and courage who might disagree on a number of issues. Trump doesn't care about any of that
Donald Trump "is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."
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CISA explicitly promoted Signal for use by top level government officials. The fact that an outsider was invited to a conversation they didn't belong in is troubling, but basically nothing else about this seems to be outside of recommended policy. The administration is also claiming that there was no confidential information in the conversation, which I think is certainly debatable, but the rest of the story seems ov…
Is this false? I see it's being downvoted, leading me to believe people question its veracity
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It’s Trump’s one true talent. He got the Supreme Court and the judiciary leaning his way in his first term. Congress is controlled by either his Republican primary candidates, or Republicans who are too afraid to cross him. Now he’s purging from the federal branch anyone who is not completely ideologically loyal to him. That is the true purpose of Doge.
For years I've been taught that US political system is based on checks and balances. Now I see that just like in any other country it was based on morals of people: voters, elected, and appointed.
People demanded this and they got it eventually.
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> Most pundits feel like this administration is trying to keep things out of FOIA and discoverability reach which has its own problems. I don't think we need to ponder so hard about this. This administration is headed by a man who kept stolen TS/SCI national secrets in a bathroom at his house. A fish rots from the head.
Keeps*. He took them back some weeks ago
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18 USC 793(f) seems to apply here: "Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing ... through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust ... and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer— Shall be fined under this title or imp…
Gabbard confirmed that no classified information was contained in the conversation.
I began my career in a classified environment working on government satellite programs. In my first week on the job, I was told, explicitly, that if I shared Classified or Controlled Unclassified information over unapproved channels, I would be reprimanded—likely fired, or less likely, prosecuted. It was also made clear that safeguarding the nation's secrets from the carelessness of others was my responsibility, too.…
Was any classified information shared on Signal?
From TFA.
The discussion itself wasn't transacting classified documents as such. But as Goldberg makes clear, information of both general sensitivity and immediate tactical significance was disclosed.
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You should read the release that CISA put out [0]. The use of Signal for classified discussions is not a suggested use. True, it's not explicitly forbidden, but people entrusted with that access should know better. Saying that CISA approved Signal (and, in right-wing sources, saying "Biden administration CISA") is an attempt to minimize and distract. They shouldn't have been texting classified information. Full stop.…
What classified info was in the chat? The only reference I saw to classified info was explicit references to getting out of that medium to discuss classified info
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Also, Steve Witkoff was in Moscow during the Signal text chain.
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Like what is wrong with you that this is your reaction to something so serious?