Summary

The Atlantic has published unredacted attack plans (non-paywall link) shared in a Signal group chat of senior Trump officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and DNI Tulsi Gabbard.

Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg released the full texts after officials denied sharing war plans or classified information, arguing transparency was necessary amid accusations of dishonesty.

The leaked messages detailed U.S. military strikes targeting Houthis in Yemen.

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Good. Should have done that to begin with.

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The interesting part of publishing all the texts is it only serves Trump’s plans. To tear America away from Europe and force America to find new global relationships. Interesting times we are living in.

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There is the outside possibility that the journalist was added on purpose

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I’ve had this thought in the back of my mind since learning about this. How does one accidentally add someone to a group chat?

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Why would an unfriendly journalist be in your (and everyone elsew) phone only as initials?

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“Won’t look good if this leaks and we don’t bomb them” is literally in the leaked chats. Journalist was added on purpose imo.

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So thankful we avoided GeNoCiDe JoE!

This is way better! …but then again, the world is only black or white… so maybe not. I guess the internet wanted this and so here we are.

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The prevalent message is what counts.

Kinda like saying a handful of idiots pushed a narrative about Hillary’s server. More idiots bought that line but it was started by a small group.

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Yes, you hold some of this blood in your hands. Complaining won’t absolve you of it. Thank you for your disservice, what are you doing to help correct it?

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they most certainly influenced the election, whether or not they were responsible or not is a bit more complicated to answer.

Whether or not they should’ve voted is the simplest possible answer you could give. The answer was yes, and they didn’t.

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The truth gets old, got it.

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This trope if pathetic, only Americans think this way. You need an actual opposition party then, not neoliberalism. Because fascism wins either with your way of thinking.

No politician offering universal healthcare, affordable housing, paid time off, better wages, resistance against genocide, etc. and etc. And youre mad at the voters? You see how fucked up that is?

Blaming others and voters will keep making your situation worse and worse, until they come after you as well. You could instead use your energy to protest in various ways or to support or help to challenge and create new parties or structures.

Keep dogging on your own citizens and youre gonna be next. Literally the playbook of Nazis. “First they came for…”

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yeah thank god all those left leaning voters didn’t vote for kamala, we would be in so much worse of a position now.

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Sigh. Harris would be more competently bombing people in Yemen, so I’m happy with Trump in charge when it comes to this.

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Wasn’t it Obama that normalized the indiscriminate use of drone strikes in civilian areas without congressional approval?

Democrats are just more competent about their use of military action.

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The problem is that republicans and democrats are still all american.

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Killed an underage American boy in the very same country that is getting bombed again.

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The Trump administration has a lot of catching up to do if they want to get even remotely close to the number of casualties and the staggering destruction caused by Genocide Joe.

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covid much?

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Covid is on the Trump administration now?

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If there’s one thing that “both sides” agree on, it’s that it’s ok to murder people in Yemen. Just don’t mess up the genociding with poor OpSec, because that’s a problem. smh.

These people won’t get in trouble because they’re serving fascism. It doesn’t matter if they leak their wacko plans because they’re attacking impoverished non-white people on the other side of the planet.

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Are your smh transmissions being downplayed? You need the all new:

compliments of: https://sh.itjust.works/post/35066328

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Who CARES? They will LIVE and LEARN! Unlike HER EMAILS!

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What happened with her emails? HRC was prosecuted or something? Or did they just do nothing then too?

The state almost never punishes itself.

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Turns out she was innocent. She didn’t follow the protocol for classified documents. However the documents were not classified until after they were sent. She didn’t break the law.

It didn’t stop them though. Something must’ve been in those documents because they got buried in bureaucracy in following lawsuits.

In June 2016, in response to the Republican National Committee’s complaints filed in March 2016, the State Department estimates it will take 75 years to complete the review of documents which are responsive to the complaints. It has been observed that a delay of this nature would cause the documents to remain out of public view longer than the vast majority of classified documents which must be declassified after 25 years.

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What about “Fast And Furious?”

The take there was that the President is personally responsible for any action taken by any subordinate.

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