President Trump has given remarks supporting National Security Advisor Mike Waltz during an interview with NBC.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump stood by his national security adviser, Mike Waltz, after The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief was accidentally added to a private, high-level chat on the messaging app Signal where military plans were being discussed.
“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” Trump said Tuesday in a phone interview with NBC News.
When asked what he was told about how Goldberg came to be added to the Signal chat, Trump said, “It was one of Michael’s people on the phone. A staffer had his number on there.”
Trump said Goldberg’s presence in the chat had “no impact at all” on the military operation.
The president expressed confidence in his team, saying he was not frustrated by the events leading up to The Atlantic’s story. The situation, Trump said, was “the only glitch in two months, and it turned out not to be a serious one.” (more)
The rest of the DC setup is transparently clear. (1) Goldberg held the story until the day before a long-scheduled Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. (2) The SSCI then used the hearing to blast the heads of the Trump administration intelligence silos on the issue of “classified” information in the text messages.
♦ The next act in this well-known performance will be for Democrats to demand the release of the Signal App transcript, if it’s not classified, then there’s nothing to hide.
♦ Public pressure via narrative drum-pounding will continue to increase, until the chat messages are released to congress. [Keep in mind, Jeffrey Goldberg likely already has them.]
♦ Everyone in the chat group will then be told they must recuse themselves from internal silo determinations as to the classified status of the conversation. More public pressure will be generated to achieve this “position of conflict” demand.
♦ The Intelligence Community, without the heads of the silos – likely leveraging the internal investigative agents of the FBI (INSD), will then say the content of the chat was indeed classified, TSCI level. There will be weeks and months of leaks to the media as each granular detail is discussed ad infinitum.
♦ The cabinet members will then face the drumbeat of resignation demands, and/or useful impeachment fodder for ‘lying to congress’ during today’s Senate Select Committee on Intelligence testimony.
At least that should be the anticipated approach by the “Seven Ways from Sunday” group, who operate to defend the interests of the Intelligence Community from agency heads like those who were on the Signal App chat group.
We’ve all watched this play before.
As a cyber security expert people must understand Signal and how it works.
#1 Someone has a mobile phone with Signal and someone on the other end has the same.
#2 Person 1 types a message in signal and presses send. The info is then encrypted and sent over the internet to the other person where the data is unencrypted and presented on the screen.
If someone has hacked the senders phone then the data can be gathered before it is encrypted. The hacker can also read the data on the recipients phone if that phone is hacked.
iPhones, androids, Windows, and Apple computers have built-in AI spying 100% of the time. Or, the hackers could take screen shots, monitor the microphone, access the camera, and do logging of the keyboard.
There is 0, zero, nada, zilch security on a mobile device. Snowden proved this in the 2010’s.
Signal is irrelevant.
There are no mobile devices that are “secure”?
From the point-of-view of “communications among Members of the President’s Cabinet,” that statement is correct. The participants will be provided with military-grade secure hardware, implementing secure military-grade protocols, and members of government staff whose sole job is to monitor the conversations to be certain that they are, and remain, secure. Meanwhile, the participants do not have to be concerned with any of the details: they simply “talk” and exchange messages and documents.
Although Signal might be a fine civilian-grade application for its intended purposes, it will not be routinely used by members of the President’s cabinet, who need to engage in “top secret” communications among themselves.
It is, on the very face of it, nonsensical to consider that “a journalist” would “accidentally” be wired-in. There is obviously nothing “accidental” about this most-unusual diplomatic action. And, no crimes were committed, because the information will not actually be found to be “classified.”
It’s an unfortunate distraction. The administration and the republicants should tell the demorats that the matter is considered closed and then proceed to ignore their histrionics.
The histrionics are payback for Trump removing the old Administration’s security clearances
hahahahah Go Team Trump!
GeorgeNews says all subscriber info for Jeff Goldberg’s magazine “The Atlantic” unsecure. Advise subscribers to change passwords immediately. Stings a bit, I think..
We went 4 years with unknown people running the country with unknown people having access to the nuclear codes. I could care less about this situation.
TIM RUSSERT: There’s an article in The New Yorker magazine by Jeffrey Goldberg which connects Iraq and Saddam Hussein with Al Qaeda. What can you tell me about it?
VP CHENEY: I’ve read the article. It’s a devastating article, I thought.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/interview-the-vice-president-meet-the-press-nbc
POTUS On the Cheneys: When I hear a statement like that from a guy that got us into spending billions of dollars in the Middle East… and then the daughter goes out and loses by the largest margin in history, like 44 points. They’ve got a screw loose.
When does Goldberg get dragged before an inquiry? The guy had information he knew was “touchy”, held it, then released it. Most of us Plebes would be run through the federal meat-grinder, to be spit out the other side with our life in pieces. But Goldberg…he must be special.
Treason is what I call it.
-The Atlantic Admits The Deep State Is A ‘Regime Change’
https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/17/the-atlantic-admits-the-deep-state-is-a-regime-change/
“It’s TheAtlantic — it’s failing. It’s probably going to be out of business soon.”
owned by mrs jobs .. ?
Flash from the past:
February 29, 2024
‘Nothing Is Secure’: Tucker Carlson Accuses NSA Of Intercepting And Leaking Encrypted Signal Chats
https://www.benzinga.com/news/24/02/37385407/nothing-is-secure-tucker-carlson-accuses-nsa-of-intercepting-and-leaking-encrypted-signal-chats
Note for the Trump Administration:
Pedal to the metal. Do not let this story gum up the flood the zone strategy. You all are doing well! Keep it up. And for CONGRESS, DO SOMETHING. Impeachment, new bills, SOMETHING!
Thanks. You are so right. Play smash mouth and get on with it. 🤬
https://www.georgenews.org/p/the-atlantic-unsecure-news-site-jeffrey
https://www.georgenews.org/p/the-atlantic-unsecure-news-site-jeffrey
Mark Qarner makes me sick.
Seems to me the solution is fairly simple: follow precedent.
There was no intent
Unforced error. Really frustrating.
Will not matter at all. I’m sure the President gave them holy hell in private. He is doing what he needs to do publicly. Support his cabinet picks.
I keep wondering if this was a deliberate leak operation on Goldberg in order to send a message indirectly to the EU.
Trust but verify! Watch Waltz. He is a RINO. Can he actually be trusted.
No, Waltz cannot be trusted.
He voted in support of same sex marriage but he may have been duped which isn’t so good either.
“Eyyyyyy, Mikeyyyyy … things are not lookin’ too good heahhhhhh” …
“We think you got some ‘splainin’ to do … … … gnomesayin’?”
(in best North Jersey accent, hoisting groinal vicinity with non-cigarette hand)
DEVELOPING: Was Mike Waltz a Source for Jeffrey Goldberg While Serving on House Intel Committee?
Does anyone really believe this was an accident? Why isn’t the staffer being fired and prosecuted?