Remember how Trump ridiculed Hillary Clinton for using a private email server to conduct State Department business? His crowds chanted “Lock her up!” at his rallies. The FBI reopened an investigation 10 days before the election, based on allegations about her emails, closed the investigation a few days later, and she lost the election. No classified information was found on her private server.
The New York Daily News reports on her reaction to the latest scandal, in which a prominent journalist was accidentally invited to join a top-secret briefing.
Hillary Clinton was baffled by reports of top U.S. officials unwittingly sharing war plans with a reporterduring an unsecure group chat that allegedly took place on the Signal messaging app.
“You have got to be kidding me,” the former Secretary of State wrote next to a wide-eyed emoticon on X.
Clinton’s post included a link to a bombshell Atlantic magazine story about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and national security director Tulsi Gabbard sharing what appeared to be highly sensitive information about military strikes in Yemen with Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
Goldberg wrote Monday he withheld information that could’ve put U.S. troops in danger due to the “shocking recklessness of this Signal conversation.”
But he shared portions of the conversation that included Vance claiming “I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now.”
Goldberg said the plan being discussed “included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.”
Throughout her failed 2016 presidential campaign, Clinton was dogged by criticism for using a private server located in her Chappaqua home to conduct official business white serving in President Obama’s cabinet. She lost to Trump, whose crowds regularly chanted “Lock her up” at his rallies.
An FBI investigation called Clinton’s conduct “extremely careless,” but found that no classified information was shared and no harm appeared to have been done.
Hegseth — a Fox News personality prior to being tapped by President Trump to manage national defense — called Goldberg a “deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again” during a brief interview on a Hawaiian airport tarmac.
“Nobody was texting war plans!” he claimed before ending that discussion.
National Security Council Spokesman Brian Hughes confirmed the messages inadvertently shared with The Atlantic “appeared to be an authentic message chain” that’s inclusion of a journalist merited further review.
He also argued the success of the strikes that occurred over the weekend proved the alleged leak was no threat to U.S. troops.
President Trump claimed at a Monday afternoon press conference that he knew nothing about the security breach, adding “I’m not a big fan of The Atlantic.”
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Um, this is the woman who had her emails on a private, unsecured server. I’m thinking maybe she could sit this one out.
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Nothing says fascist quite so well as the default attack on journalism rather than owning up to the truth
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Mrs. Clinton, you’re not the only one who is baffled…I’m with you, girl!
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Don’t give a damn what H. Clinton thinks. She and her husband need to retire quietly and stay the hell out of politics. She and BlowJob Billie had their chance already. . . and turned the country so far right that there is no left left in the Democrat party.
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“He [Brian Hughes] also argued the success of the strikes that occurred over the weekend proved the alleged leak was no threat to U.S. troops.“
The leak may not have been a “threat” to our troops over the weekend, but we don’t know that the leak won’t be a threat to our troops in the future. Any operational procedures or other classified information contained in this leak can definitely pose a threat to future operations.
The app they were using, and smart phones in general, are vulnerable to threats from sophisticated spyware (such as Pegasus) that can be extremely difficult to detect.
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“No classified information was found on her private server.” Thank you, that is the true fact that has been minimized. No classified information was ever found on her secured private server. It was, however, found in the unsecured AOL email account of Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and the private email accounts of many Bush White House staffers. Somehow using a private SECURED server was twisted into being much more of a national security risk than using AOL!!
There was never any “scandal”, but since the main liberal newspapers barely reported (and usually intentionally left out) the copious undisputed facts that showed that this was a non-issue, the public still believes “she had her emails on a public unsecured server” is something scandalous instead of what was the acceptable practice of most people who served in government! – including any official beloved of the left – and likely no one’s “private email” would survive scrutiny if every email they ever wrote was scrutinized for something that made them look bad.
But what Hegseth, Vance, Rubio and Gabbard did is unprecedented. They spurned restrictions that were not in place when HRC was in office and shared highly classified, top secret information. The hypocrisy of Hegseth, Vance, Rubio and Gabbard is rivaled by the hypocrisy of those HRC-haters/ Trump excusers who falsely imply that HRC did something she did not and thus she should shut up.
Hypocrites.
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This was not so much incompetence as it was hubris. The idea that a bunch of inexperienced capitans can run a tight ship smacks of middle school bravado. They probably thought Goldberg’s phone number was Putin’s
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“They probably thought Goldberg’s phone number was Putin’s”
Hilarious, except it is probably true, which is tragic!
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Correction:
“The idea that a bunch of inexperienced SEAMEN can run a tight ship smacks of middle school bravado.”
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