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Via #WIRED @ 8:18pm ET on Mar 24, 2025

SCOOP:

Shortly after senior #Trump officials discussed the bombing of #Yemen in a #Signal group chat that just happened to include #TheAtlantic's editor in chief, a subset of the group feasted at a secret dinner featuring Trump where guests were asked to pay $1 million apiece to join.

#Houthi #Hegseth #DNI #NSC

wired.com/story/trump-official

WIRED · Trump Officials in Signal Fiasco Attended Secret Mar-a-Lago Dinner Shortly After Celebrating BombingBy Leah Feiger

"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."

Brian Hughes
NSC spokesman
________________

"...how an inadvertent number was added to the chain"?!?!

THAT'S what you're reviewing???

In my day, PC-level officials (and lower, since I had one at a General Staff job but strangely did not have one as a DDIO...it depends on the agency & how much $ they're putting against it) were issued secure phones with specially developed and security vetted apps on them. It is true that people who don't have government issued phones do some coordination using their own phones. Things like "meeting on Wednesday at 9 a.m." with no other context. Technically government employees are not allowed to use their own phones or emails for official business. In reality, people who don't warrant issuing special equipment still need to communicate with their team. And they are not stupid enough to blab strike plans! I swear to god I've never met anyone in the govt as STUPID as these MAGA men. #spillage #NSC #DOD #military #security

Update: As I was saying... bsky.app/profile/forbesmm.bsky

Bluesky SocialBluesky

A reporter was added to a White House principals committee Signal group. No, that shouldn't happen, and government entities discussing classified information shouldn't be operating this way. Obviously.

"I have never seen a breach quite like this. It is not uncommon for national-security officials to communicate on Signal. But the app is used primarily for meeting planning and other logistical matters—not for detailed and highly confidential discussions of a pending military action. And, of course, I’ve never heard of an instance in which a journalist has been invited to such a discussion.

Conceivably, Waltz, by coordinating a national-security-related action over Signal, may have violated several provisions of the Espionage Act, which governs the handling of “national defense” information, according to several national-security lawyers interviewed by my colleague Shane Harris for this story."

The most bizarre part is Pete Hegseth texting "I will do all we can to enforce 100% OPSEC” 🤡 🤡 🤡

#natsec #military #NSC
theatlantic.com/politics/archi

The Atlantic · The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansBy Jeffrey Goldberg

Raad van State komt met vernietigend oordeel pensioenplan NSC en BBB | de #Volkskrant
volkskrant.nl/politiek/raad-va

Van B3 verwachtte ik al niet veel.
Dat NSC met een referendum kwam over iets wat veel te ingewikkeld is voor de meeste Kamerleden was al bizar. (99,9% van de werknemers zal de gevolgen niet kunnen volgen)
Maar nu maakt de RvS er dus ook nog gehakt van...

Gaat lekker bij die partijen... 🙃🚮

de Volkskrant · Raad van State komt met vernietigend oordeel pensioenplan NSC en BBBDe Raad van State heeft een vernietigend oordeel geveld over het voorstel van NSC en BBB voor verplichte pensioenreferenda bij de overgang naar het nieuwe stelsel.
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@randahl : the Netherlands govt may be disintegrating as we toot (that would be great, although most Dutch voters have not resisted the propaganda spilled out over them - on the contrary - so I'm not sure that they've seen enough lunacy from the US).

Our PM Schoof was stabbed in his back (by three of the four political parties responsible for our current government) for promising that NL would contribute to the 800 M€ EU defense plan.

A tiny majority in the Dutch parliament now makes Schoof look like a fool.

For the first time in his life he told the parliament to GFY. The debate will continue tonight IIRC.

Dutch: nos.nl/artikel/2559357-crisiso (Google translate, typically buggy: nos-nl.translate.goog/artikel/)

We'll see...

nos.nlCrisisoverleg over EU-defensieplan duurt voort, Schoof wil wens Kamer niet uitvoerenDe premier houdt crisisberaad met de coalitiepartijen PVV, VVD, NSC en BBB omdat drie partijen hem niet steunen over Europees defensiebeleid.

"Het is ongebruikelijk dat het kabinet aangenomen moties niet uitvoert, zeker als het om een principieel punt gaat." Aldus Lamyae Aharouay en Guus Valk in @nrc_nl

nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/03/13/schoo

Onzin. Het gebeurt steeds vaker dat een motie niet uitgevoerd wordt.
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eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/item/op #DickSchoof #VVD #PVV #NSC #BBB #politiek