Posts Made By: James Lacey

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

LOL. The only thing sad is your response.

Originally Posted by David Cotterell

It would be nice if Mr. Trump, when he is complaining about  Canada, would understand that the "subsidy" being paid to Canada is not at all a subsidy.  It is a trade deficit.  As in the USA buys more stuff from Canada than Canada buys from the USA, to the tune of 60 or 200 billion dollars (amount in dispute).  It's not a subsidy because, for your 60 or 200 billion dollars you receive that amount of goods, products,  and raw materials in return.  Such a deficit is not at all surprising since we only have 1/10 the purchasing power that the US does due to our much smaller population. 

And, while I am here,  the 250% dairy Tariff is a marginal tariff which only kicks in if the US exceeds a negotiated, agreed-upon limit of dairy products into Canada.  Below that level?  No tariff...Free trade.   

Dave

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

“Dear Sweet Baby Jesus,” said one former senior US official, reacting to the reporting."

“No,” another said, flatly, when asked if there was any analogous use of the app during the Biden administration."

"Signal is an encrypted messaging app that is popular around the world, including among journalists and government officials. Biden administration officials also routinely used it to discuss logistical planning for meetings and at times to communicate with foreign counterparts."


PS: Nobody at today's senate intel committee hearing on all of this stated Jeffrey Goldberg lied about anything. But listening to "Tulsi" Gabbard and John Ratcliffe, anybody could see and hear who was doing the lying...

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

It was THAT faux news game show host all along, PETE!  

"Top intel officials shift responsibility on to Hegseth for sending potentially classified info to Yemen strike group chat"

"... Hegseth’s texts, which reportedly included “operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing,” have drawn the most attention."

"Multiple current and former defense officials have said that any discussion of the timing, targets or weapons systems to be used in an attack is always classified — because of the potential risk to US service members lives if those plans are revealed prematurely."

"Signal, the encrypted messaging platform that the officials were using, is a commercial app that is not approved for classified information."


"The Atlantic reported that Hegseth sent “precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.”

“I think the most accountable, or the most guilty person is the secretary of defense because he put in all the highly classified information,” Republican Rep. Don Bacon, a member of the House Armed Services Committee and former Air Force Brigadier General, told CNN."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-intel-officials-shift-responsibility-183802556.html

And remember, the only one who backs PETE 100 PERCENT IS THE SCREAMER! 

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

Davis says the Atlantic journalist is a liar. Considering this whole administration is made up of nothing but liars led at the top by the Liar in Chief I'm surprised Davis doesn't have more respect for him. LOL

So, the best that he can do is call the guy a liar. Liars can still get inadvertent texts from a dumb former Faux News personality/incompetent and stupid Secretary of Defense.

He can deny it all he wants, still doesn't make the alleged not true. Will this be another hill Davis is willing to die on?

Originally Posted by Brian McFarland

Precisely. Anyone else would be in jail for doing something that stupid.  Just to be clear, any reference to timing, weapons packages, targets, etc., (even obliquely) is classified.  Anyone who says differently doesn't understand any of it.

That this happened is no surprise, though.  After all, this is the administration whose leader thought that the gold-plated swamp hotel in Mira Lago was a suitable place to store boxes and boxes of classified documents. LOL

Originally Posted by James Brown

Good post James.   I don’t know if this is a new low.  Primacy bias may be at work.  There are legions of instances of previous leaks and gross mishandling of classified information in the leadership of previous administrations, always going unpunished.  Meanwhile, a soldier or sailor will be court martialed and jailed for this sort of thing, as we have noted on this forum many times.

Historically, some of the leaking and all of the document mishandling seems attributable to incompetence or paranoia.  Some leaking is the result of malfeasance though, like the IRS or FISA leaks.   Do we know which this is?   Seems odd that this particular journalist would be leaked to through incompetence.  Either way, the general public is numbed.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Richard, I simply can’t believe you are willing to make these arguments.   I’m referring to all of your posts in this thread.  You might be the only person on earth who is arguing that this was not classified information or that the leak was not a big deal.  You can support Trump if you desire and still acknowledge that this was an enormous, epic, and monumental security failure (or other words starting with f) made by high level administration officials.

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Gee, and since Joe Biden and his administration used the very same app, Signal, I guess you want to run with your criticism of the disastrous use of the Signal app by the Biden admin?

Yes, no?

The Biden administration policy on encrypted apps and which should be used:


The CISA guidance specifically cited that government officials should download "end-to-end encrypted communications" platforms to their cellphones and computers, specifically citing Signal as an app to download to comply with the best practices.   

"Adopt a free messaging application for secure communications that guarantees end-to-end encryption, such as Signal or similar apps," the guidance states. "CISA recommends an end-to-end encrypted messaging app that is compatible with both iPhone and Android operating systems, allowing for text message interoperability across platforms. Such apps may also offer clients for MacOS, Windows, and Linux, and sometimes the web. These apps typically support one-on-one text chats, group chats with up to 1,000 participants, and encrypted voice and video calls. Additionally, they may include features like disappearing messages and images, which can enhance privacy."?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-era-guidance-encouraged-use-signal-app-highly-targeted-govt-officials-best-practice?msockid=1ed65a6159cd6a213a0448a858356b0a

Well then, did you want to double down on your assertion above, claiming: "the use of Signal by itself, for any official conversation is surely prohibited."?

Originally Posted by James Brown

Was the chat including the journalist encrypted? 

Either way I doubt that Signal is approved for classified military or national security communications under Biden or Trump.  This focus on the medium misses the point though.  Surely you see that even if the medium was approved (which I doubt for these type of communications) the execution was shoddy at best and probably criminal for any regular government employee.  Please don't lose sight of the real issue, which is negligently (at best) including a outside, unsecure, third party on the communication.