The job of Democrats is so clear right now: It's to do everything possible in the next 48 hours to keep the Atlantic story front-burner and make people understand the issues and the stakes. It couldn't be a simpler test of who gets it and who doesn't.
— Mark Harris (@markharris.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
there are like three overlapping scandals with signalgate — illegal distribution of sensitive government materials by top members of the administration, illegal attempt to circumvent records laws and possible unlawful use of military force — and democrats should be screaming about them all
— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) March 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
"US airstrikes hit Yemen cancer hospital again as bombing campaign escalates" Liberals are more upset about the platform used to discuss war crimes than the actual war crimes themselves. The discourse has been disgusting, with very little regard to the violence Yemenis are facing.
— RootsAction (@rootsaction.org) March 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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massively depressing that the big scandal is that the shithead guy from the atlantic got texted accidentally and not the part where they're raining more death on yemen
— mattie lubchansky (@mattielubchansky.com) March 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The chat group, national security breach is not a Washington story. It is GLOBAL. Right now, UK Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard is in Parliament being grilled by MPs on what military & security operational details are shared with the United States. Trust in the US has been shredded.
— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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There's a lot that's alarming in the Trump Team Texts™ but the repeated suggestions that the president was out of the loop on basic facts and unclear about his orders -- and that his underlings were making the decisions for him -- really stands out. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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yup and Politico runs the story as, "How secure is Signal.” My guess is they are sliding to say the app was legitimate. It’s freaking laughable.
— usaf1976.bsky.social (@usaf1976.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Also, insane as it is, the deeper problem is not *this specific incident*. It’s that the entire top tier of national security officials are routinely violating the most basic protocols for dealing with the most sensitive information in multiple ways.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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A reporter got looped into a top secret discussion *by accident*. Do you seriously think sophisticated foreign intelligence services *who are actually trying* don’t have a way in when they’re this sloppy?
— Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
We know Russia developed at least one successful exploit against Signal recently. You’ve got 17 extremely high value targets in a groupchat, probably on personal devices. Only one of those endpoints needs to be compromised. www.firstpost.com/world/russia...
— Julian Sanchez (@normative.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
— Yell In a War (@jelenawoehr.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I really do love the libs going 'actually Goldberg is a great reporter and The Atlantic is a noble rag we must support'. Gee guys do you think he got on the fascist group chat because he's friends with them and agrees with them, maybe?
— Liz, like a lizard 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@queerthing.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Goldberg could be prosecuted, says Asha Rangappa, because "the Espionage Act makes no mention of “classified” information. It’s national defense information (NDI) which could cause harm to the U.S. if disclosed. Which it clearly was in this case, regardless of classification." Of course, "3 of the highest-ranking national security officials publicly stated none of it was officially classified," as someone else pointed out in a reply, which makes it a hard case to win.
Dan Crenshaw dismisses Hegseth texting war plans to a Signal group that included a journalist: "We gotta move on. If Secretary Hegseth says there was no classified information, I'll take him at his word."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) March 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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‘Huge Screwup’: Republicans Give Group Chat Breach A Thumbs Down Emoji: "You got to know who you're sending your text to," one Republican advised after Pete Hegseth accidentally leaked classified information to a reporter. Igor Bobic, HuffPost, Mar 24, 2025
Atlantic Editor Names The 1 Thing He Struggled To Explain In Bombshell Group Chat Report: Jeffrey Goldberg reflected on the "most improbable" part of his reporting after he was inadvertently added to a group chat where Trump officials discussed war plans. Ben Blanchet, HuffPost, Mar 24, 2025
Dems Aghast After Trump Brass Accidentally Texted War Plans To Reporter: "Only one word for this: FUBAR," said Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.)., Ryan Grenoble, HuffPost, Mar 24, 2025
Warning over privacy of encrypted messages as Russia targets Signal Messenger: Russia is using phishing attacks to compromise encrypted Signal Messenger services used by targets in the Ukraine. Experts warn that other encrypted app users are at risk. Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly, 19 Feb 2025
Hillary Clinton Responds To Trump's Admin Using Signal To Discuss War Plans: Trump's administration included a journalist on a group text that discussed national security matters. Paige Skinner, HuffPost, Mar 24, 2025
Key things to know about the Senate hearing where top intel officials were grilled on group chat fallout. From CNN's Michael Williams, Hannah Rabinowitz, Ted Barrett, Alison Main Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer and Antoinette Radford. March 25, 2025
Reporter’s inclusion in Signal group chat was "of course not" appropriate, CIA director says. From CNN's Morgan Rimmer and Michael Williams, March 25, 2025
Mike Johnson Downplays Group Chat Leaks As 'Officials Doing Their Job,' Gets Torched On X. The House speaker told reporters Monday that Trump officials were merely "executing on a plan with precision," despite their messages going public. Marco Margaritoff, HuffPost, Mar 25, 2025
— Daniel Harder 🇺🇦 (@danielharder.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I haven't. Because I have anxiety. I check my emails like 14 times. GTFOH carrying water for these fools.
— Cheryl Lynn Eaton (@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Sen. Mark Warner: "Putting aside for a moment that classified information should never be discussed over an unclassified system, it's also just mind boggling to me that all these senior folks were on this line, and nobody bothered even check." "Security hygiene 101: Who are all the names?"
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
They were intentionally using Signal to avoid accountability for the discussion. If by chance any of them thought they were on Signal for other reasons, and they realized the discussion was not appropriate for Signal, they should have bowed out.
I’m old enough to remember when Secretary Hegseth tried to publicly mock Judge Reyes—suggesting that she didn’t know what she was doing when it comes to protecting our national security. It was … two days ago.
— Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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JUST IN: American Oversight is suing Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe et al, saying their messaging via Signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) March 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Yesterday, Gabbard testified: “There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal chat.” So the Director of National Intelligence lied to the US Senate.
— Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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If this isn’t classified, it should be, and regardless, there is no way in hell it should have been discussed during a Signal chat. Trying to place the blame on Goldberg and the Atlantic and LIE about what was in the chat won’t change the facts.
— HawaiiDelilah™ 🌊 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@hawaiidelilah.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Hegseth should be done for. "The information ... Hegseth disclosed in the Signal chat of top Trump national security officials was HIGHLY CLASSIFIED at the time he wrote it ... according to a US defense official familiar with the operation and another source who was briefed on it afterward."
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Why were senior Trump administration officials using Signal in foreign countries to communicate about sensitive national security matters? We need answers and accountability. Urgently.
— Sen. Adam Schiff (@schiff.senate.gov) March 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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The Trump administration claimed their actions deporting immigrants to El Salvador was a state secret Even though they posted videos of it to social media But their “Houthi small group” Signal chat, which includes-in advance-times, weapons and information about the target Somehow it WASN’T secret
— Adam Cohen (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Let’s make something clear: The Trump cabinet’s shocking leak of its plans to bomb Yemen raises myriad confidentiality and legal issues. The security of the encrypted messaging app Signal is not one of them.
— WIRED (@wired.com) March 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Circling back to this. This is the Joe Kent who was on the Signal group chat. He’s a Gabbard confidant and Trump’s nominee to lead the NCTC. He thinks the FBI did January 6th.
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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SCOOP: A House Democrat's long-shot bill to criminalize the sharing of classified information through unsecured messaging systems like Signal will be called the "HOUTHI PC SMALL GROUP Act"
— Axios (@axios.com) March 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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NEW: Rubio asked if the information on the group chat was classified. RUBIO: “Well, the Pentagon says it was not.” Hegseth is the fall guy isn’t he? He’s career kryptonite to the rest. There’s a Signal group somewhere called “Pete Takes The Heat small group” Everyone’s on it. Except Pete.
— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"Obviously someone made a mistake, someone made a big mistake." Secretary of State Marco Rubio addresses the Signal group chat leak of military plans. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
— MSNBC (@msnbc.com) March 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Government officials often work in the ‘high side’ — a classified system, and the ‘low side’ — an unclassified government system. The entire Signal conversation took place in neither the ‘high side’ nor the ‘low side,’ but in a publicly available messaging app. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
— Stephanie Kennedy (@wordswithsteph.bsky.social) March 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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WELKER: Do you believe that Ratcliffe and Gabbard were truthful when they testified before your committee? BENNET: No. I think they lied repeatedly to our committee and to the House committee.
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) March 30, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Every single Democratic lawmaker should be calling for Hegseth's immediate resignation right now. Not just some. Not just a few dozen. Every single one, starting at the top with Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries. And the fact that it hasn't happened yet is nearly as shocking as Hegseth's conduct.
— Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Collins: Do you think someone should be fired over this? Buttigieg: Absolutely… if there’s not accountability for a screw up like this, especially from a president who used to fire people on television for sport, what are we even doing here..
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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That’s not a concern, now that we’ve spurned all our allies.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the *names of individuals* to be killed. That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF. I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.
— Angry (@angrystaffer.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
the scandal is not that goldberg was added to the chat. that's just a dumbfuck being a dumbfuck, and sure, fire Waltz. the scandal is that a national security conversation is on a cellphone groupchat. and since no one commented on it, presumably it's a regular occurrence.
— David M. Perry (@lollardfish.bsky.social) March 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Seems extremely obvious that the "none of it was classified" line is 100 percent about covering their asses and 0 percent about the actual dissemination of attack plans on a third-party app with an unverified distribution list. The 2025 variant of "it's not illegal if we say it wasn't illegal."
— Philip Bump (@pbump.com) March 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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KELLY: The deliberation as to whether we should launch a strike on another country. Would you consider that classified information? GABBARD: The information was not classified RATCLIFFE: Pre-decisional strike deliberations should be conducted through classified channels
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) March 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.
— Joe Beda (@h.olysh.it) March 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Trump Throws Absolute Fit Over 1 Simple Question: ‘Don’t Bring That Up Again’ The president’s critics urged reporters to ignore the demand and keep bringing it up. Ed Mazza, HuffPost, Apr 4, 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had the consumer messaging app Signal set up on a computer in his office at the Pentagon so that he could send and receive instant messages in a space where personal cellphones are not permitted, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) April 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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"Were any of the Houthi Signal group members compromised at the time they discussed the Yemen attack plans? Frankly, it would be shocking if they were not." My latest in @foreignaffairs.com on "The Real Lessons of SignalGate" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
— Ron Deibert (@rondeibert.bsky.social) April 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Hegseth Had Unsecured Internet Line Set Up In His Office To Connect To Signal, AP Reports: The defense secretary had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office, allowing him to use Signal on a personal computer. Tara Copp, AP, Apr 24, 2025
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