I imagine you’ve already read how the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally included in a Signal group chat discussing plans to bomb the Houthis in Yemen.
The group included VP Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, national security adviser Mike Waltz, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and others.
HOW did this happen?
- Could it have been a purposeful leak attempt? If so, who’s the heroic leaker?
- Is Kegseth (not a typo) in Trumpy’s doghouse now?
- Will ANYONE be held accountable for this incredibly boneheaded, middle school level, colossal fuck up?
The National Security Agency sent out an operational security special bulletin to its employees in February 2025 warning them of vulnerabilities in using the encrypted messaging application Signal, according to internal NSA documents obtained by CBS News.
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The NSA is an arm of the Defense Department and specializes in signals intelligence — which is derived from electronic transmissions — and cybersecurity. The agency is responsible for monitoring, collecting and processing information and data for U.S. national security interests.
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"A vulnerability has been identified in the Signal Messenger Application. The use of Signal by common targets of surveillance and espionage activity has made the application a high value target to intercept sensitive information," the internal bulletin begins. (source)
The Department of Defense controls the NSA. That’s Kegseth’s department. I would think that, given his very own damn department’s warnings about Signal (issued just last month), drunk, rapey, frat boy Pete would have known that using the app wasn’t smart.
The advisory states "Russian professional hacking groups are employing the 'linked devices' feature to spy on encrypted conversations." It goes on to note that Google has also identified Russian hackers who are targeting "Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest.” (source)
Steven Witkoff was in Russia when he was added to the chat. Was Putin’s intelligence crew monitoring? Given that Trump (AKA Krasnov), Gabbard, and Musk are on Team Russia anyway, does it matter?
Ratcliffe and Gabbard claim the Yemen strike plans contained no classified information. Sure. If that’s the case, show us all the details. Make it public.
It’s outrageous that the Trump White House accidentally shared top-secret war plans with a journalist. Those should only be available to people using a public bathroom at Mar-a-Lago.Mike Waltz spunout a fairy tale that The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg dastardly hacked his way into their Signal chat. At the same time, these bozos are claiming that using their personal phones and a not-so-secure app is safe/not vulnerable to hacking. Also, secret war plans aren't really secret.
~ Borowitz Report
Which is it you rake-stepping bumblers? Either the app is so porous that it can be easily hacked by a magazine editor (who just happened to know the times of all the pertinent exchanges) OR Signal’s encryption is so impenetrable that it’s safe for secret military attack planning discussions?
With charmless, fecal brained louts like this at the top of our government, it's totally unsurprising that the entire world is laughing at us.
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