Showing posts with label signal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label signal. Show all posts

Monday, December 8, 2025

Mark Leibovich on Hegseth, Trump, & More! (Al Franken podcast on YouTube)

We're joined by the great Mark Leibovich from The Atlantic to run through some of the wild stories fresh out of Washington. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is facing criticisms on multiple fronts: Not only was it reported that he ordered the killing of two survivors from a bombed alleged drug trafficking boat, a Pentagon Inspector General also found that he put American troops' lives in danger with his reckless messages on Signal. Could we see Trump turn on Hegseth?

We also recap the marathon Cabinet meeting. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spent his time kissing Trump's ass, and Trump (when he was awake) broke out into an maliciously racist rant about Somalis.

Plus, we talk MORE shady pardons (including the former Honduran President and convicted drug trafficker), Trump's sinking approval ratings, and Dick Cheney!

READ Mark's writing in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/mark-leibovich/
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Over Signal, these National Guard members question Trump's deployments : NPR

"I have been on two humanitarian-esque missions with the guard, which were awesome, doing the things you see on the commercial, helping these communities," says J. "And then you want me to go pick up trash and dissuade homeless people in D.C. at gunpoint. Like, no dude. It's so disheartening every time I see another city — and I just wonder, 'who's going to stand up to this?'"…

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/10/nx-s1-5601819/national-guard-signal-trump-deployments 


 

Sunday, August 17, 2025

Jeffrey Goldberg on Signalgate, Pete Hegseth, and the Risk of WWIII (Reveal podcast/More to the Story)

On this week’s “More To The Story,” The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief on what he learned about the Trump administration from “Signalgate” and what really scares him about the future of American democracy.

In March, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, glanced at his phone and couldn’t believe what he was seeing. He’d been inadvertently included in a secret chat on Signal among the Trump administration’s national security team about imminent military strikes in Yemen. The Signal chat leaks—which inevitably became known as “Signalgate”—called into question President Donald Trump’s national security team and how it handled top secret information.

Many of those same officials oversaw recent military operations against Iran and its nuclear facilities. Few journalists have seen how the administration operates from the inside out better than Goldberg. He says those Signal chats revealed something about how he believes Trump’s officials view their jobs, especially Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

“I almost felt like, at a very basic level, he was showing off for the vice president, who was also in the chat,” Goldberg says. “The thought I had was, ‘Dude, you don’t have to cosplay being secretary of defense. You are secretary of defense.’” He adds that while it was happening, he didn’t “contemplate just how amazingly stupid the whole thing was.”

On this week’s More To The Story, Goldberg sits down with host Al Letson to reflect on the Signal chat leaks, fears of World War III, and what truly worries him about the future of US democracy.
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Friday, July 25, 2025

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Monday, March 31, 2025

Take it to the High Side (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Unjustified podcast)

At least 18 Trump administration officials used an unsecured Signal chat to discuss real-time attacks on Houthi militants in Yemen earlier this month as investigative journalist for The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently added to the group.

The Department of Justice is drastically changing their policy of prosecuting crimes in the United States prior to deportation.

The FBI has cut staffing in an office focused on domestic terrorism and has scrapped a tool used to track such investigations. This shift could undermine law enforcement’s ability to counter white supremacists and anti-government extremists.

Alina Habba was sworn in Friday as the interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.

Plus listener questions.
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Israeli officials furious over Trump administration Signal group chat leak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYQM_X2Jk4Q

 

The Consequences of the Signal Breach - The Atlantic

"Had that information fallen into the hands of a U.S. adversary that had been in the group, or had [Goldberg] been a less scrupulous journalist and tweeted it, that information would then be known to the Houthis, who would be able to prepare defenses and a counterattack that absolutely would jeopardize the lives of U.S. forces," Harris continued…

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2025/03/signal-breach-washington-week/682240/ 



Friday, March 28, 2025

Team Trump’s Text Chain Disaster Gets Worse, “War Plans” Lies Won’t Stop...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfKCwWN87jI


Hegseth's Sloppy Security Breach | Mike Waltz: Goldberg's Number Got "sucked in to my phone “

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhpHSs16ouY

The real problem with the Signal chat leak is it shows systemic dishonesty

The leak exposes a system of broken accountability, where high-ranking officials can spill military secrets with apparent near-total immunity. Despite potential violations of classification protocols, federal record-keeping laws and promises of operational security, the leaders look to face no meaningful legal consequences...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/signal-chat-leak-pete-hegseth



Jeffrey Goldberg reacts to Pete Hegseth denying group chat war plans

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0s8XKTrAvtk

 

Schiff Flames Trump for Major Scandal, Live on MSNBC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FeQXfJZ5m0

 








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