Here are the Attack Plans That Trump's Advisers Shared on Signal

&gt; Late yesterday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt emailed a response: “As we have repeatedly stated, there was no classified information transmitted in the group chat. However, as the CIA Director and National Security Advisor have both expressed today, that does not mean we encourage the release of the conversation. This was intended to be a an [sic] internal and private deliberation amongst high-level senior staff and sensitive information was discussed. So for those reason [sic] — yes, we object to the release.”<p>Posting the statement with all of the typos is a nice little touch.<p>You can complain all you want about the media, but the White House (ostensibly) pays a team of people to deal with the media full time and it doesn&#x27;t seem like they do a better job communicating for themselves.

Really enjoying this series of drops. This really is good TV.<p>No, Really, I&#x27;m thoroughly entertained and really invested in this story. I eagerly await the name-reveal of that CIA operative!<p>It&#x27;s also hilarious how they seemingly understand rhe president is an absolute babbling buffoon (note how they discussed the inconsistency in his messaging), but are still catering to all his needs. it&#x27;s a rare moment from behind the scenes showing how morally bankrupt that faction is.<p>These guys really hate Europeans but ate still forced to do theor boss&#x27; bidding like some sort of cliche mafia family.

At 11:44 a.m. eastern time, Hegseth posted in the chat, in all caps, “TEAM UPDATE:”<p>The text beneath this began, “TIME NOW (1144et): Weather is FAVORABLE. Just CONFIRMED w&#x2F;CENTCOM we are a GO for mission launch.” Centcom, or Central Command, is the military’s combatant command for the Middle East. The Hegseth text continues:<p>“1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package)” “1345: ‘Trigger Based’ F-18 1st Strike Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME – also, Strike Drones Launch (MQ-9s)”<p>Let us pause here for a moment to underscore a point. This Signal message shows that the U.S. secretary of defense texted a group that included a phone number unknown to him—Goldberg’s cellphone—at 11:44 a.m. This was 31 minutes before the first U.S. warplanes launched, and two hours and one minute before the beginning of a period in which a primary target, the Houthi “Target Terrorist,” was expected to be killed by these American aircraft.<p>The Hegseth text then continued:<p>“1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package)” “1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier ‘Trigger Based’ targets)” “1536 F-18 2nd Strike Starts – also, first sea-based Tomahawks launched.” “MORE TO FOLLOW (per timeline)” “We are currently clean on OPSEC”—that is, operational security. “Godspeed to our Warriors.”<p>At 1:48 p.m., Waltz sent the following text, containing real-time intelligence about conditions at an attack site, apparently in Sanaa: “VP. Building collapsed. Had multiple positive ID. Pete, Kurilla, the IC, amazing job.” Waltz was referring here to Hegseth; General Michael E. Kurilla, the commander of Central Command; and the intelligence community, or IC. The reference to “multiple positive ID” suggests that U.S. intelligence had ascertained the identities of the Houthi target, or targets, using either human or technical assets.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;secretsandlaws.bsky.social&#x2F;post&#x2F;3llburtsvnk2m" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bsky.app&#x2F;profile&#x2F;secretsandlaws.bsky.social&#x2F;post&#x2F;3ll...</a><p><i>On the left: Hegseth&#x27;s message.</i><p><i>On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions.</i><p><i>This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level.</i><p><i>They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.</i><p>Bio includes: Former CIA attorney

The irony of &quot;We are currently clean on OPSEC&quot; is pretty heavy...

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&gt; The Trump administration is arguing that the military information contained in these texts was not classified—as it typically would be—although the president has not explained how he reached this conclusion.<p>It&#x27;s been a minute since the classified-documents case was surreptitiously scuttled by the &lt;checks notes&gt; Honorable Judge Aileen Cannon — so <i>The Atlantic</i> must have forgotten that Trump can change the law by thinking about it, and that he did change the law by thinking that he could declassify documents by thinking that they are declassified, even later in time than the point at which that later thinking about the declassification actually had the effect of declassifying them.<p>We have concepts of a justice system.

I thought I had heard that there were some details on CIA operatives, such as names that were mentioned in the chat as well. Is it possible there is more that Goldberg is still sitting on?

One thing I haven&#x27;t seen talked about is that given the many similar events, why is nobody clamoring to improve government systems so that they are actually used by the people who won&#x27;t actually go to prison for not using them?

Based on the (changing) relative timestamps in the published screenshots, it looks like Goldberg was taking screenshots throughout the days he was privy to the chat. The published images also appear to be the actual screenshots (e.g. as opposed to a reproduction of them, using CSS etc. to mimic Signal&#x27;s design).<p>I had thought that once Goldberg realized what he was into, that he and The Atlantic would&#x27;ve taken some steps to mitigate the risk of the government seizing his phone. Like using another camera to take photos of his phone displaying the group chat&#x27;s contents (and then saving those jpegs on several USB drives via an air-gapped computer). Maybe they did do that, but realized they don&#x27;t need to publish those stowed-away jpegs after Trump asserted that nothing classified was in that group chat.

The clowns in charge have stated that nothing classified was discussed in the chat, so raging that revealing this is prosecutable is utterly risible.

I had Austria on top of the list of countries with sloppy security around secrets, not anymore...

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