Ah yes - the classic Trump approach.... just yell Fake News as loud as possible.

He knows they have the screenshots and the NSC confirmed it, right?

https://x.com/JenGriffinFNC/status/1904221405618577650

NSC statement:  "At this time, the message thread that was reported appears to be authentic, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain. The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials. The ongoing success of the Houthi operation demonstrates that there were no threats to our servicemembers or our  national security." - NSC Spokesman Brian Hughes

The Trump administration does not deny this Signal group chat about the war planning for the Yemen strikes is real. Trump’s top national security advisers added reporter

@JeffreyGoldberg

@TheAtlantic

to the war planning text chain on non-government social media app, perhaps breaking secrecy laws. Read this shocking story below.

You dumb fuck, there are screenshots of all of it, plus your own people admitted it

pete hegseth was a DUI hire.

The fucking White House confirmed this shit.

Working the playbook. Step 1: Deny

Lmfao

The editor in chief of The Atlantic wrote an op-ed on the whole episode, and they have corroborated and confirmed from multiple sources that he was, indeed, inadvertently shown data that is considered SCI in a Signal group chat that was likely conducted through the personal devices of administration officials.

There is no debate here. That happened. This is like rear ending someone in your car and totaling both vehicles and just refusing to even acknowledge that you even felt anything.

Even if everyone in the chat had a need-to-know, you do not use insecure 3rd-party software for classified communications. Secure networks already exist for this.

Maybe he was drunk.

These fucking guys only ever lie and deny.

Are we really too stupid and weak as a country to be able to do anything about this?

downs entire glass of whiskey "wasn't me"

Don't forget Tuli was on the chat too, I sure do feel safe with our inept leaders.

Sooo Pete didn’t do it, but trump also says that Pete learned his lesson?

US is a joke. A very dangerous joke.

You're right Pete. It wasn't texting.

It was RCS through an untraceable encrypted messaging app named Signal

Which is WORSE since records are destroyed

Ah, going with denial in the face of concrete evidence to the contrary

Classic Trump move

Why is nobody talking about the fact that we are bombing Yemen? Yes, including a random person in a text channel talking classified information is a problem. But, why are we just brushing off the actual chat contents?

"You're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again...This is a guy who peddles in garbage.

Hegseth then added, "oh wait, that's me."

Disgusting comments about Europe in the group chat. The USA is a pariah state; the sooner we disentangle from it, the better.

He's going with the Shaggy defense? "It wasn't me". I mean, it works for them. It will probably all blow over because no one is going to do anything. But this should absolutely destroy him.

Jesus, these people are so fucking predictable.

House Speaker Mike Johnson to reporters on Monday after news of the messages spread: "I just was with the president in the Oval Office just now. The administration is addressing what happened. Apparently, an inadvertent phone number made it onto that thread. They are going to track that down and make sure it doesn't happen again."

Sounds great, how about we start by following fucking protocol? And not using a chat app on a damn mobile phone to have discussions on this scale?? Huh???

Fuck you Pete 'DUI Hire' Hegseth.

You used a non-approved communication application and caused a massive data leak with you and your incompetent morons in office using OpSec that my junior engineers know better and if any one else did what you did, that's be fired and be facing charges.

Fucking pathetic children who can't take any accountability.

Having complete morons in charge does confer particular tactical advantages.

Prove that the sender of that message doesn't match the cryptographic fingerprint of Hegseth. If he didn't send it, then it wont match.

Signal allows you to verify all your contacts in the group chat.

This is so easy to solve. Jfc

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007060632-What-is-a-safety-number-and-why-do-I-see-that-it-changed

The journalist just has to show the safety number of the person who sent it, and hegseth has to verify it with his device. They're obviously already in each others contacts, or at least are aware of each other's presence in the group chat. Its pretty hard to ignore some random journalist entering the chat since it alerts the entire group.

What makes signal great is, yes, privacy, but also the authentication of your contacts. You know you can't possibly be talking to someone else's device if you have verified their safety number.

inadvertent mistake.

Lets give the benefit of the doubt and say it was a mistake. Is that a matter and a position, where such a mistake is tolerable? Or is it something that disqualifies for any position in that domain and demands immediate resignation?

Because if you seriously make a mistake, and you realize the gravity of it, you take responsibility for it. If you instead remain in position, you either don't recognize the gravity of it, which is an even bigger reason to resign, or you indeed acted with intent.

But in this case it did not start with inviting Goldberg. It started with making a chat group on an unauthorized app, likely using unauthorized devices to discuss matters that are explicitly forbidden to be taken out of specific permitted official channels.

"Wasn't me"

— Pete Hegseth

Ah yes, the classic Shaggy defense. What's that shit conservatives say? We're still in the first year.