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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: March 25, 2025, 05:33:50 PM »Something to keep in mind about Signal; it isn’t officially approved by the government for secure communication
Neither is CNN, NBC, or FOX News, but we can find plenty of government and military leaders who have talked about about the commencement of operations, areas of focus, and about active wars in general. Trump had already announced operations against the Houthis so it is not a surprise, and officials normally talk about the generalities of the operations freely.
We are supposed to assume that something specific was said, which for some reason put the American military forces in the "broader Middle East"in danger. Considering the history of this journalist and his outlet, this is incredibly doubtful.
Okay, I'll play along. Suppose you're right and Goldberg made up the parts of the exchange where a CIA official was supposedly mentioned by name and where Hegseth supposedly said something that would have hurt American military and intelligence operations if an enemy had read it. Taking that for granted, do you know what difference it makes to how reckless having this conversation on an unsecured platform was? Very little to none. Because, as I keep trying to explain to you, the whole conversation is the problem. This wasn't an interview or an authorized release of information to the media. It was high-level officials in the administration discussing and coordinating an active military operation. That kind of discussion involves classified information, and cannot be discussed on unsecure platforms. Whether or not you can point to any tangible harm caused by the disclosure doesn't matter. It's still a major security breach, and something that the government takes very, very seriously, even if you don't (unless it involves Hillary, of course
