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I personally feel this is just further evidence they're using Signal across the board to avoid record retention, per project 2025 handbook

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The only reason for government officials of public trust to hide their communications from oversight is criminal intent. Congress has secure oversight committees for this critical purpose. To make sure Bad Men are not violating their oath of office. And breaking the laws.

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These are Bad Men acting in Bad Faith doing Bad Things and harming people. Let’s tell the truth out loud. Loud.

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Extortion. Fraud. Scams. Cons. Parasites.

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And traitors, oh my

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@Burke ... Agree. They are failing just as their Nazi hero failed in Germany. Everything they've so carefully planned is being challenged daily--oftentimes by the second and the hour. I recall reading ... "Resist the devil and he will flee ... ."

Every time Drump get's his butt in a bear trap he runs away but not before claiming he "doesn't know, other people did it, I didn't sign it, I didn't say it," blah, blah, blah.

The only butt he's interested in covering is his own. The only golf tournaments he lays claim to as a "winner" are the golf courses he owns and he played against nobody! LOL 😂 He orders his staff to create trophies and photos that are prominently displayed for his "guests."

The dude is a DUD!

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Ironic that Donald cheats at the traditional "Game of Honor". The irony is missed by the main stream media pundits.

"I won another golf tournament at my country club!" And no one laughs in his face.

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Heck no! I just saw a video of a gentleman being arrested for laughing at the cop who stopped him. People in Dumpty's circle know if they displease him in any way their paychecks stop!!! LOL 😂

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A reckless regime will soon wreck themselves , hopefully they don’t wreck the rest of the world with them .

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I believe that they are using substandard methods, to evade accountability. Even when they are caught red handed, they still manage to spin, spin and spin their mistruths. They should all be fired.

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They shouldn't be fired, they should be put in front of a firing squad.

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Exactly. Heads should roll, but Trump has never had qualm about having Top Secret laying around in his home in Mar Lago.

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Oh boy to that one, these guys, what oath, oath to trumpeeeeeee

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I was responsible for records management here in Texas and ALL records should be retained. If it was related to city business--it doesn't matter if it was in the form of texts, emails, paper, video--hard to police but not hard to understand.

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Did you forget what chat dialogue you were in?

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This entire administration is set up for Trump World to steal money. And get away with it. Big money. Like $Trillions.

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Follow the money. I think that is the real motive.

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Exactly and that’s why he made the comment on Air Force One…”We’re gonna be real rich”, which means him and his billionaire buddies….Not Us….

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Yes Yes Yea

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Yes, that makes sense. They want to avoid records of their radical actions 🤔

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That is an important point. Several US federal codes REQUIRE that all government actions be officially recorded. Must be a coincidence that the DOGEy and Master of Mystery also fired the head of the US Archives and Library of Congress. Just making the overturning of our Government more efficient I guess.

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Yes, Manda. You are absolutely right. Two important Substacks to read:

Robert P. Hubbell, Today’s Edition Newsletter

Signalgate: A crack in the façade?

https://open.substack.com/pub/roberthubbell/p/signalgate-a-crack-in-the-facade?

FP Wellman, On Democracy

EXCLUSIVE: DOD has deployed Signal on government devices overriding their own policy

https://open.substack.com/pub/fpwellman/p/exclusive-dod-has-deployed-signal?

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And to share w Putin.

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They should all be in jail!

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Probably right on track!

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Sounds like a case of TDS.

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Susan Rice is a brave defender of democracy! Waltz and Hegseth should be thrown in jail along with the orange menace and muskrat. My civil service colleagues and I are documenting their many crimes: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/no-one-elected-elon

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And nothing will done to any of them for this.

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At least not immediately. But the tide is slowly turning.

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We need a tsunami, not a slow tidal turning.

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This motivates a few Congressional Republicans to step up. Shared government?

https://jerryweiss.substack.com/

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Ive been hoping someone was creating a rap sheet.👍

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Signal IS the de facto platform because, as Project 2025 outlines, Signal allows them to avoid FOIA. All departments are using it. Fred Wellman said a DoD colleague told him that Signal is being loaded into all govt issue phones in order to speak with the White House. When will someone hack this bullshit and uncover all the tyrannical shit conversations they are up to???

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It is already being done! The Russians in Chinese among others but they're not going to put that stuff out there because they don't want to spoil their feast.

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Agree. Certainly not the the first time they used it for classified business just the first time publicly caught. Keystone cops.

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Thank you for being the adults in this situation and rationally explaining what the protocols are with regards to our national security. I deeply appreciate the plain facts shared in a way I can understand. Now, that I am informed more broadly about what occurred, it is all the more alarming to know how exposed our country is due to the missteps of this administration.

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Agree with Rice: Shady Vance will sacrifice the safety of our military in the Red Sea rather than “help out” European interests in shipping lanes. SACK HIS TREASONOUS ASS.

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Those under oath lying in the Congress, should be prosecuted and removed from office. Every single one, even Trump

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what about the most horrible SCOTUS decision ever: President not punishable for any action taken in performance of his presidential duties.... ???? That one did us in, I fear!

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Perhaps Roberts regrets giving Trump absolute immunity?

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They are so daft…this administration is an embarrassment! None of them have a clue, period!!!

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Actually I think they do have a clue....it just happens to be a vision that we don't share with them of a country for ALL of the people not just a few

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You're right. This is deliberate, so that there will be NO RECORD of their treason.

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Unstable times like this cause wars. Imagine how much of a mess we would be in with Trump calling the shots. I have maybe 20 years left in my life and I would prefer to do it peacefully in a world where the markets aren't in crisis and they have fucked my social security and medicare.

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I concur. I spent 23 years in the Marine Corps in harm's way. These jackholes are trying so hard to fleece the country that they don't care if they start a war. They won't be the ones fighting it so they don't care. Using an app to hold meetings prevents the maintenance of records of who was in the meeting and what was discussed. Time to start digging our nuke shelters in the backyard because these idiots are going to kill us all.

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War=big money for the wealthy (Dick Cheney) they don't give 2 craps about our brave and heroic armed service members.

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Kirsten, I appreciate you and the fact that you put your body in a situation that a lot of us will never realize. You understand the seriousness of this situation. So many in our armed services are in danger because they were betrayed by these incredibly stupid people on that chat.

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Precisely!

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Malcolm Nance a few days ago, explained how the Russians, Chinese and anyone else who wanted to know any secrets would have, and probably have, infiltrated all their contacts and have every message now!

This gang of fools and misfits can only be the greatest embarrassment to the USA ever. Besides the fact that Trump was elected President.

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That is exactly why they are using it. This is deliberate treason.

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Agree.

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Susan Rice clarified this so well. The current Administration is unconscionably reckless, irresponsible, and lawless. The cabinet-level people on the chat, who *should* have known better, should be held accountable for this. Will any of them be held accountable?

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Their doing this DELIBERATELY

Bet Putin is on their list under an alias!

Basically we have two PUTIN'S in the world. One alias Krasnov!

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Not a chance in hell

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Good question. Mot in the near term, but eventually they will be.

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Probably not.

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I used to build sonobuoys for the Navy, and we couldn't even have cell phones on the production floor because people were taking selfies with our equipment and parts in the background! Imagine THAT getting into the wrong hands! Those people got fired IMMEDIATELY! New rule, if a phone is caught on the floor, FIRED!!!

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Ambassador Rice, thank you so much for your experience and your eyes. And the Administration whisked Pete Hegseth out of town. JD Vance was whisked out of town. Mike Waltz was whisked out of town. The 3 top conspirators muffled so as not to leak the truth. Simpletons were left to gaslight and perjure themselves. Anyone that says the national defense information was not classified WHEN DIVULGED has committed perjury. Need I say more. Nice graphic is spinning in my mind with my loud thought. In DC, it sounded like the thunder of a covey of quail getting up and scattering for cover. Why would they want to miss the limelight and all the microphones? Just not like them, is it?

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/conspiracy-against-us?r=3m1bs

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Absolutely worst administration in history! These clowns have no freaking clue 🙈🙈

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CBC/Radio-Canada is a Canadian public broadcast service just had Susan Rice on their podcast. She stated the same thing during that conversation. But she also was asked about the relationship between Canada and the United States was affected by SingalGate. She emphasized that Canada cannot trust the United States anymore. Fascist Trump and his Administraiton are going out of their way to share our Classified Information with our enemies means only one thing, America has been sold to Russia, North Korea and China. The Master Plan of Putin to attack Europe, North Korea and China attacking Asia and the demented Traitor Trump attacking the Americas is being played out in real time.

Democracy is more in play during Midterms 2026 more than 2024. All Americans, let me say this one more time, ALL AMERICANS need to vote this time. If apathy once again prevails, the United States as we have known it until this time, WILL DISAPPEAR FOREVER!!!!

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This loosy goosy treatment of national security issues by this cabinet is abhorrent. The whole lot of them appear to be total fuck ups and not qualified to hold those positions. The buck stops at Felon47s desk, who is equally incompetent.

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He's a traitor who has sold out to Putin.

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Absolutely 100% this! Starts with Felon47. They all need to go.

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Excellent interview!

To my mind, the reasons they did this on Signal are obvious.

1. They WANTED Russia to know. They want to show Putin the size of their balls.

2. They want to be able to delete it all. They need to erase the evidence of their crimes.

What I want to know is, was the inclusion of Goldberg also intentional or a major malfunction by a drunken fool?

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I believe someone in that group is a whistleblower....else how could it possibly have happened????? Goldberg is no friend of any of theirs, but one of them knew he was the one to share it with.

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well, you have to either deliberately enter a phone number in to add it to a chat or select it out of the contacts on your phone. So it was deliberate no matter what anyone says. It might have been a "fat finger," but I thoroughly doubt it.

https://substack.com/@techiam

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That thought has crossed my mind, too.

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whatever it was, I am glad that it happened. I doubt they will stop using the app since "t" did not reprimand them or blame them in any way. Just said it was all a witch hunt and a hoax. They need to expand their vocabulary.

https://substack.com/@techiam

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Good question!

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1 & 2; #3 was indeed an error.

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Trump and company are so stupid. They are indeed wrecking this nation and putting all our lives at risk. In the old days, people were hanged for such crimes. Bring back the old days…

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