#Whiskeyleaks

[sophieinwonderland]

DO PEOPLE REALLY THINK YOU'RE MAGA NOW 😭😭😭 HAVEN'T YOU SPENT THE PAST FEW WEEKS CONDEMNING THEM

Apparently! LOL! Some people are weird! 🤪

But!!!

I actually did find a new MAGA hat I like! 😁

(Borrowed from Twitter. No clue who originally made this.)

[muddypolitics]

Crockett calls Texas Gov. Abbott ‘Governor Hot Wheels’

BONUS - some reddit-suggested nicknames for Hegseth:

DUI Hire

Whiskeyleaks

[corporationsarepeople]

[pageroastthepig]

[sweetfirebird]

I made a post saying that if you are looking to convince Republicans and military types to be upset about the Signal security breach, then talk about how this will get US soldiers killed. In the post, I did not support what was done or even the military (although honestly the military is already pretty upset about it from what I hear) because as a practical political standpoint--this is a wedge issue. And you want wedge issues. Republicans use them all the time but they use like, trans people and abortion. Because Republicans suck. This is using their own arrogance and incompetence and shitty behavior against them.

They bombed people and laughed about it. They bombed people as an act of war without the president's explicit approval. They breached National Security both deliberately AND accidentally. They also lied to congress about it. And of those things, what will upset a lot of Americans, unfortunately, is everything I just listed *except* the first thing--though that will upset some.

Anyway, I did that, and someone called me a blue maga-ass.

Lack of reading comprehension? On the piss on the poor website?

This is a weakness to be exploited to make the Trump regime look like the failsons (and daughters) they are, and to get more people *against them.* Which we need. To *survive.*

Anyway the person who called me that still reblogged it so I guess they just wanted everyone to know that they agreed but they were still morally pure. So now we know. Good job.

[epicallyepicepilogue]

[janedrewfinally]

What this leaves out is that these clowns were also using emoji. As part of the chat.

For anyone who hasn't been up to date on the clown show that is the American news, I'll give a quick recap because oh boy.

So Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. One day, he gets a notification on his phone from the messaging app "Signal". He sees that he's been added to a group chat called "Houthi PC small group". He thinks nothing of it at first, until a couple days later he sees on the news that the U.S. is bombing Yemen. He takes a look and sees that he has been added to a group chat by the National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.

Plenty of government officials including vice president JD Vance were in this conversation, and they were discussing their bombing on Yemen. And Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was added by mistake.

So Goldberg approached the White House, who confirmed that he had been accidentally added to the chat. He then posted part of the conversation in a news story on the front page of his news website, omitting any classified information as to not get arrested for that level of security breach.

The response from the administration has been wild. They're all smearing the journalist, obviously, but their responses at first varied from "he made it all up" to "he must've hacked is way in" to "big deal, people add people to group chats on accident all the time". Eventually, they were put in front of Congress to testify under oath, where they said that nothing in the conversation was classified information like military hours or types of weapons used.

In response, Goldberg said "Oh, so it's not classified? Okay then! That means I can do this," and then he released the full unedited conversation. The conversation was nothing but classified information like military hours and the types of weapons used.

Not only are they communicating on private phones on third party apps as a way to circumvent the Presidential Records Act (the chat was interestingly set to auto-delete messages after 4 weeks), but it really kinda highlights the incompetence of America's leadership right now.

They're not going to win.

[saywhat-politics]

People are now referring to Pete Hegseth as “WhiskeyLeaks” and I’m kinda mad that I didn’t think of it first.

[sophieinwonderland]

Also, just loving the name "whiskeyleaks/whiskileaks" for the most recent scandal! 🤪

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jay Kuo at The Status Kuo:

Let’s talk briefly about the jaw-dropping scandal that remains the talk of Washington.

If you’re just getting up to speed, we learned on Monday that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz had created a chat group on Signal, which is a private, encrypted communications app. It included some of the top officials in the Trump administration, including himself, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance. The topic was a potential military strike on the Houthis in Yemen. In creating the group, Waltz apparently inadvertently invited Jeffrey Goldberg, the Editor in Chief of The Atlantic, to the chat. No one can explain yet how this happened. Goldberg himself at first understandably thought it was a hoax, or perhaps some kind of trap for the media. Because after all, it would be a stunning display of incompetence, stupidity and even illegality to make that kind of mistake. But the longer the private thread went on, the more Goldberg understood that this was in fact a real chat, and he was somehow on it. A day after he broke the story, now that we’ve all had time to absorb just how shocking, irresponsible and, yes, criminal this Signal group was, we’ve also begun to understand how the administration is choosing to respond. And it’s only deepening concerns.

Deny it happened, then attack the reporter

This is a White House that never owns up to its mistakes, especially its colossal ones, nor admits the truth even when confronted. And that made for some head-spinning moments for what some, in honor of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, are calling “whiskeyleaks.” “Nobody was texting war plans!” Hegseth insisted with a straight face. To his credit, Hegseth has years of experience lying to the public on Fox & Friends, and this is likely one of the reasons Trump picked him. Hegseth made this claim of “no war plans” even though, per reporting by the Associated Press, the National Security Council admitted that the text chain described by Goldberg in The Atlantic “appears to be authentic.” When asked how a reporter came to even be in a top secret chat group, Hegseth deployed his base media instincts again to go after the reporter’s reputation, as if that had anything to do with what had happened. He really could have been describing himself here: “So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes,” Hegseth said, implying again that the story was untrue while attacking Goldberg personally.

The man who created the original f*ck-up, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, took the same approach even after the story was confirmed. Waltz even went on Fox to suggest that Goldberg had hacked into the system, rather than been directly invited by Waltz.

[...]

It was “hair on fire” with Hillary Clinton

It’s important to note that Waltz and Hegseth were some of the biggest critics of Hillary Clinton for having a private email server on which a handful of classified documents inadvertently exchanged hands. Back in 2016, for example, Hegseth argued that if Hillary Clinton were any security professional, “military, government or otherwise,” she would be “fired on the spot” for what she did. By his own logic and argument, he also should be fired immediately for participating in the highly compromised group chat, which never should have happened outside of a secure government communication channel in the first place. Hegseth even claimed falsely during the text thread that they had “Operational Security” over the mission.

The same people who were apoplectic over Hillary Clinton’s emails are all of a sudden making excuses for the Signal leaks regarding Yemen featuring Pete Hegseth and Michael Waltz. The Signal leaks were more of a threat to national security than Clinton’s emails ever were.

[corporationsarepeople]

According to Yemen Data Project, the first strike killed at least 13 civilians and injured nine on the night of March 15, hitting north of the capital, Sanaa. Yemen Data Project says that this was the bombing deemed “excellent” by the vice president and “amazing” by Waltz.

The messages are “prima facie evidence of at least one war crime applauded by the people who conspired to commit it,” wrote Dylan Williams, Vice President for Government Affairs for the Center for International Policy (CIP), on social media.

[anexperimentallife]

The Muskrat's dad: "My son can't be racist; he was friends with some of our Black servants growing up."

Actual government representative: "Lack of a criminal record in brown people is suspicious, and might mean they have terrorist ties."

Half of MAGA: "The exact times, locations, and equipment to be used in a military strike on civilians isn't classified information! Besides, the guy who reported on it afterwards is a Democrat, and it's somehow HIS fault the guy in charge added him to the illegal chat!"

The orange shitgibbon regime in general: "WOO HOO! We destroyed an apartment building full of innocent civilians because a guy we don't like was there to visit his girlfriend! A toast to us!"

ICE/DHS: "Tattoos are proof of gang membership! (Unless they're white supremacist tattoos like Whiskeyleaks the DUI hire, of course.) We're not giving them due process because we've already decided they're here illegally, and if we gave them due process they might prove we're lying about their status."

Noem: "If you're brown (and especially if you have a tattoo), we're going to skip due process and just send you to a forced labor camp that's world famous for its abuse of inmates. Oh, and it's in a foreign country."

[beautifullovebread]

Idiot!!

This guy doesn't understand secret/classified protocol whatsoever. Using his wife as a shield.

Shear lack of experience.

[sweetfirebird]

Having now used Signal, Mike Waltz's already stupid lie of "he got sucked in" to the chat makes even less sense. Mike Waltz already had this reporter as a contact in his *personal phone* *that he wasn't supposed to use for official shit.* But also had to add him to the chat, and that miiight have been accidental if he already had him in another chat, or if he was trying to add someone with a similar name. But the reported was definitely already in his contacts list.

[misfitwashere]

JAY KUO

MAR 26 READ IN APP

Let’s talk briefly about the jaw-dropping scandal that remains the talk of Washington. 

If you’re just getting up to speed, we learned on Monday that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz had created a chat group on Signal, which is a private, encrypted communications app. It included some of the top officials in the Trump administration, including himself, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance. The topic was a potential military strike on the Houthis in Yemen.

In creating the group, Waltz apparently inadvertently invited Jeffrey Goldberg, the Editor in Chief of The Atlantic, to the chat. No one can explain yet how this happened. Goldberg himself at first understandably thought it was a hoax, or perhaps some kind of trap for the media. Because after all, it would be a stunning display of incompetence, stupidity and even illegality to make that kind of mistake.

But the longer the private thread went on, the more Goldberg understood that this was in fact a real chat, and he was somehow on it. A day after he broke the story, now that we’ve all had time to absorb just how shocking, irresponsible and, yes, criminal this Signal group was, we’ve also begun to understand how the administration is choosing to respond.

And it’s only deepening concerns.

Deny it happened, then attack the reporter 

This is a White House that never owns up to its mistakes, especially its colossal ones, nor admits the truth even when confronted. And that made for some head-spinning moments for what some, in honor of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, are calling “whiskeyleaks.”

“Nobody was texting war plans!” Hegseth insisted with a straight face. To his credit, Hegseth has years of experience lying to the public on Fox & Friends, and this is likely one of the reasons Trump picked him.

Hegseth made this claim of “no war plans” even though, per reporting by the Associated Press, the National Security Council admitted that the text chain described by Goldberg in The Atlantic “appears to be authentic.”

When asked how a reporter came to even be in a top secret chat group, Hegseth deployed his base media instincts again to go after the reporter’s reputation, as if that had anything to do with what had happened. He really could have been describing himself here: “So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes,” Hegseth said, implying again that the story was untrue while attacking Goldberg personally.

The man who created the original f*ck-up, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, took the same approach even after the story was confirmed. Waltz even went on Fox to suggest that Goldberg had hacked into the system, rather than been directly invited by Waltz.

Fox’s Jesse Watters was busily trying to recast the scandal as a nothing burger, comparing this to when you “accidentally add the wrong person” to a chat group and they wind up seeing things they shouldn’t:

Watters similarly attacked Goldberg as “one of the biggest hoax artists around,” again suggesting that what happened didn’t really happen even though the White House has admitted it happened.

It was “hair on fire” with Hillary Clinton

It’s important to note that Waltz and Hegseth were some of the biggest critics of Hillary Clinton for having a private email server on which a handful of classified documents inadvertently exchanged hands. 

Back in 2016, for example, Hegseth argued that if Hillary Clinton were any security professional, “military, government or otherwise,” she would be “fired on the spot” for what she did. By his own logic and argument, he also should be fired immediately for participating in the highly compromised group chat, which never should have happened outside of a secure government communication channel in the first place. Hegseth even claimed falsely during the text thread that they had “Operational Security” over the mission. 

Hegseth further claimed back in 2016, “If it was anyone other than Hillary Clinton, they would be in jail right now... because the assumption is in the intelligence community, if you are using unclassified means, there is... likelihood that foreign governments are targeting those accounts.” 

So… lock him up?

Waltz was no fan of Hillary Clinton either, no surprise there. At the time, Waltz blasted then National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan for sending top secret classified documents to Clinton’s private email while Sullivan was her deputy chief of staff and for getting “nothing, not even a slap on the wrist.” 

By his logic, then, what should we do with a current National Security Advisor who accidentally invites an actual reporter from a national news organization to a top secret chat taking place on a private encrypted communications app?

At the very least, under their own arguments, both of these men should be fired for this serious, inexcusable breach of national security over discussing actual war plans operations on a non-government channel. 

Men like Hegseth and Waltz were quick to condemn a political opponent for a minor breach of security protocols. But now they not only refuse to accept responsibility for their own actions but expect there to be zero consequences for their shockingly irresponsible disclosures and blatantly illegal use of a private messaging service.

The hypocrisy is starting to feel like the point.

[record-guy59]

Feeling real secure with all the Whiskeyleaks coming from the DUI hires at the Pentagon