Updates on the Signal Scandal

They have an app. It's on their government issued phones. It's called Microsoft Teams. And yes, it is DoD DISA Level 5 compliant and supports sharing CUI. And within O365 Government, you would have been unable to accidentally invite a rando to a chat group outside of the IT infrastructure that hasn't been cleared by Sys Admin. Facts matter.

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Absolutely agree there needs to be a better system for communication with this stuff, working around a SCIF especially for a high-level civilian official would be next to impossible. As a former officer that spent a good deal of time in the intelligence world, I can agree technically it’s spillage with EST ToT (but that’s really it) … but if I had done something like this, and I were otherwise great at my job, this is exactly the type of thing you get a ferocious ass chewing for and then never do again … because hopefully I my leadership has the good sense not to ruin a career over a singular mistake that had NO IMPACT to operational outcome. Contrast that with the Afghan withdrawal, which was an unmitigated, disaster … thousands of lives were lost, with zero accountability … which matters way more to myself, and any other veteran I know, than this nonsense.

They do it to avoid FOIA in general not just this incident. It's not like this was the first group chat. The policy in Trump 1.0 was no note taking.

Every 'authorized' person in that Signal chat has access to SIPR Intelink Chat and SIPR Chirp. They don't *need* a way to communicate securely. They *have* a way. They simply CHOSE to break the law instead.

Ok here’s a twist, at least one person was in this group, on his phone while in Moscow. No being in Moscow isn’t sketchy, but the personal phone of a US official is ALWAYS vulnerable in an adversarial country esp the capital.

The fact that there isn't already some proprietary government app or phone for that sort of thing is wild. It's 2025

“Weren’t saying anything bad”: you forgot the whole trashing Europe thing, Ryan. In under 100 days, 80+ years of alliances have been undermined and trust lost. Implications for Five Eyes… etc. etc.

There is no excuse for the use of signal to discuss plans to attack any enemy of the US. If this had been lower level government employees or those in the military, they'd have any clearance revoked and possibly be fired.

I would say their conversations on signal would be automatically labeled CUI due to the nature of their positions in government. But that is just an opinion.

Accountability would go so far right now... Yes i f'd up... We'll fix it so it doesn't happen again....in lieu of the bold face lies they are all saying under oath 🤦🤦🤦🤦