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Putin in Murmansk pledges to increase the military in the Arctic region and modernize it some more. Russia had already increased its presence and had disputes about the sovereignty.
It will be interesting how Pro-Russia MAGA is going to react when their friend is directly pointing his military at US bases on US soil in Alaska...

https://apnews.com/article/russia-putin-arctic-trump-greenland-2dbd00625c2c0c3bd94a2c96c7015b69

#Arctic #Greenland #Geopolitics #MilitaryBases #CubaMisileCrisis #Trump #Putin #MAGA #NationalSecurity
🇺🇸 is wasting an opportunity...🇺🇦 V 🇷🇺


OPSEC com Officer:
"Publishing active attack plans on a PERSONAL phone... including times, locations, weapons packages, etc... would have EVERY individual involved facing indictment, trial, and significant jail time... at least 20 years plus.

This is a HUGE deal.

Don't believe any lie that says otherwise."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHo3AJURTZo&lc=Ugyj_drxPnECYFMMk2R4AaABAg

#OPSEC #Espionage #Law #NationalSecurity #Penalties #SecurityBreach


“There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal group,” Tulsi Gabbard, director of the CIA, told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

“Nobody was texting war plans,”— Pete Hegseth, secretary of defense.

HERE ARE THE ATTACK PLANS THAT TRUMP’S ADVISERS SHARED ON SIGNAL…
#press #nationalsecurity





#WhiteHouse sez there's nothing classified in here, so Atlantic #Journalist invited to #NationalSecurity chat has published the thread #Signalgate

If #Democrats can't make hay here, after what happened with HRCs emails, they should all go home, sez me

Non-paywalled link

https://archive.ph/2025.03.26-130227/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/aezrchive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/


At a Senate hearing yesterday, the director of national #intelligence, #TulsiGabbard, and the director of the #CIA, John #Ratcliffe, were both asked about the #Signal chat, to which #JeffreyGoldberg, the editor in chief of #TheAtlantic, was inadvertently invited by #NationalSecurity Adviser #MikeWaltz. “There was no #classified material that was shared in that Signal group,” Gabbard told members of the #Senate Intelligence Cmte.


So, about that #Signal chat.

On Monday, shortly after we published a story about a massive #Trump-admin #security breach, a reporter asked the secretary of #defense, #PeteHegseth, why he had shared plans about a forthcoming attack on #Yemen on the Signal messaging app. He answered, “Nobody was texting war plans. And that’s all I have to say about that.”

#law #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #idiocracy #kakistocracy #intelligence #JeffreyGoldberg #TheAtlantic


Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was hired for that top job despite his lack of experience in running a huge organization and his carelessness with security. He was hired for his blind devotion to Trump and his ability to "lie directly into the cameras":
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/joegarofoli/article/pete-hegseth-signal-20240691.php #NationalSecurity #Signalgate #military #VodkaPete #politics #media.


Gizmodo: The Pentagon Sent Out a Warning Against Using Signal Right Before Yemen Group Chat Fiasco. “The memo was delivered department-wide days before The Atlantic published a bombshell revelation that its editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg had been erroneously added to a Signal group chat that involved detailed discussions of planned strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, including the name of an […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/26/gizmodo-the-pentagon-sent-out-a-warning-against-using-signal-right-before-yemen-group-chat-fiasco/


Surprise….😳Trump downplays the extraordinary security breach, denies that the info. discussed was classified, backs Waltz & calls Atlantic’s editor-in-chief a “sleazebag.”

“With an operation like that, there’s no possible way that…this mission was not classified,” said Chris Meager, a former sr official in the Defense Dept.
https://shorturl.at/qgW96
#press #nationalsecurity


You can’t make this up…

As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, one member of the group chat, Steve Wiskoff, was in Moscow, where he met with President Vladimir Putin!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-envoy-steve-witkoff-signal-text-group-chat-russia-putin/ #press #nationalsecurity


BREAKING: Only a week ago, a Pentagon-wide advisory went out warning against using the Signal app.

"A vulnerability has been identified” — Russian hacking groups are "targeting Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest."

AND, users were reminded that the app is neither approved “to process nor store non-public unclassified information."

https://shorturl.at/ucwS5 #hegseth #nationalsecurity #press


“Former CIA officer here. This is more than “loose lips sink ships”, this is a criminally negligent breach of classified information and war planning involving VP, SecDef, DCIA, National Security Advisor - all putting troops at risk.

America is not safe.”—Matt Castelli
#press #nationalsecurity


I'm relieved the respected #journalist #JeffreyGoldberg handled this craziness with such professionalism. But I'm disappointed that #Buffy Summers wasn't invited into the #NationalSecurity #groupchat. She made it pretty clear that she expects to be in the loop about this kind of thing.

a woman is holding a cupcake a...


OMG

🚨🚨#Trump's *#NationalSecurity* team accidentally included The Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg in a #Signal conversation about strikes on #Houthis, & they used the non-governmental platform to coordinate staffing among departments & the White House.🚨🚨

They absolutely broke several #laws in communicating classified detailed warplans over a nongovernmental app on their private phones.

I mean… talk about an #idiocracy & #kakistocracy.

#GiftArticle

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxfkkjq6OqYnnkMoNwkJaxw8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share


In Ukraine, Radio Free Europe is trusted by 95% of the general public, according to the BBC. Trump is destroying Radio Free Europe. For many decades, no one could imagine an American president acting as destructively as Trump acts. Many of Trump's actions could be predicted by asking: "What would Putin, America's enemy, want an American president to do?" Trump is #PutinsPuppet. #politics #NationalSecurity #media.


President Joe #Biden last year ordered his #NationalSecurity team to establish working groups to monitor the issue amid warnings from US #intelligence that Russia was escalating a shadow war against Western nations.

The plan was led by Biden's #NSC & involved at least 7 national security agencies working w/European allies to disrupt plots targeting #Europe & the #UnitedStates….

#security #USpol #geopolitics #Russia #sabotage #disinformation #cyberattacks #NewWorldOrder #Trump #PutinsPuppet


Exclusive: #US suspends some efforts to
counter Russian sabotage as #Trump moves closer to #Putin

Several US #NationalSecurity agencies have halted work on a coordinated effort to counter Russian #sabotage, #disinformation & #cyberattacks, easing pressure on Moscow as the Trump Admin pushes #Russia to end its war in #Ukraine.

#intelligence #security #USpol #geopolitics #NewWorldOrder #PutinsPuppet
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-suspends-some-efforts-counter-russian-sabotage-trump-moves-closer-putin-2025-03-19/


DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers & Safety Experts

Firings & buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Safety Admn amid a major effort to upgrade America’s #nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting the federal work force.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/federal-job-cuts-nuclear-bomb-engineers-scientists.html

"Officials had initially expected that the nuclear agency’s #NationalSecurity mission would protect it from layoffs."

#ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #Trump #GOP #USPol #Politics #Security #News #USA
Headline:
DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts

Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Safety Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting the federal work force.


#DOJ says that the only thing they are authorized to say is that the two flights which took off after the written order were not relevant to this case (which I guess is saying they had no one subject to the #AlienEnemiesAct #AEA on board?). He then claims #NationalSecurity & diplomacy mean he won't answer further.

🧵
#law #Constitution #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #immigration #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower #Trump


less encouraging:

#Trump’s #NationalSecurity adviser, #MikeWaltz, stopped short of calling for Pres #Zelensky’s resignation but said #Ukraine’s leader must be more cooperative. “We need a leader that can deal with us, eventually deal with the Russians & end this war,” Waltz said on CNN. “And if it becomes apparent that President Zelensky’s either personal motivations or political motivations are divergent from ending the fighting in this country, then I think we have a real issue on our hands.”


NewsWire: "Right-wing British newspaper Mail on Sunday reacts to Trump-Zelenskyy meeting with their front page headline: 'Now Stop the State Visit for Bully Trump'."
#media #politics #NationalSecurity #isolation #untrustworthy #Trump #PutinsPuppet


Federal employees told to justify jobs in email or Musk says they face dismissal
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/22/politics/elon-musk-employees-emails

"But several #NationalSecurity agencies, including the #FBI, and multiple other federal depts, advised staffers not to respond to the #email... suggesting that the broader executive branch was not informed of nor prepared for the demand.

The email came from the Office of Personnel Management’s new HR email address but had no signature."

#Musk #Coup #Trump #GOP #Politics #News #USA #USNews
Headline from CNN:
Federal employees told to justify jobs in email or Musk says they face dismissal

By Shania Shelton, Tami Luhby, Josh Campbell, Eva McKend and Evan Perez, CNN

6 minute read
Updated 12:05 AM EST, Sun February 23, 2025


Gen Caine retired w/ 3 stars, as a lieutenant general. By #statute, the chair of the #JointChiefs of Staff is supposed to have served as a combatant Commander, as the vice chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or as the top uniformed officer of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or Space Force.
It’s unclear if Gen Caine will need a congressional waiver; a congressional aide said #Trump had some latitude to choose whom he wanted & exceptions could be made for #NationalSecurity.
#USpol #law #military


He served in several highly secretive #intelligence & special ops assignments, some in the US & some overseas.

Acc/to his military biography, Gen Caine was a part-time member of the Air National Guard from 2009 to 2016 & “a serial entrepreneur & investor.”

He was also an assoc director for #military affairs at the #CIA from 2021 to 2024, serving as the principal liaison to the #Pentagon & working w/the military on several highly classified programs & operations….

#law #USpol #NationalSecurity


Gen Caine is a 1990 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, where he received a degree in economics. He later got a master’s in air warfare at the American Military University.

An F-16 pilot with 150 combat flight hours, Gen Caine’s career took him on an unusual path for a future Air Force general.

He was a White House fellow at the Agriculture Dept & a counterterrorism specialist on the White House’s Homeland Security Council under Pres George W. Bush.

#law #USpol #NationalSecurity


But it soon became clear that Gen Brown had not been welcomed into #Trump’s inner circle. He was not invited to key meetings w/the president, ofcls said.

It was a significant reversal for Trump from 2020, when Gen Brown was nominated to be the USAF’s chief of staff. At the time, Trump noted the historic significance of his decision to appoint the “first-ever African American military service chief,” posting that the general was “a Patriot & Great Leader.”

#law #WhiteSupremacy #NationalSecurity


“First of all, you’ve got to fire the chairman of the Joint Chiefs,” #PeteHegseth said in a [TV] appearance…in Nov. He added that any general involved with #DEI efforts should be fired. “Either you’re in for warfighting, & that’s it,” he said. “That’s the only litmus test we care about.”

On Hegseth’s first day at the #Pentagon, however, he stood next to General Brown, who became chairman in Oct 2023, & said he looked forward to working w/him.

#law #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #NationalSecurity


#JointChiefs chairmen traditionally remain in place as admins change, regardless of the president’s political party. But #Trump White House & #Pentagon officials said they wanted to appoint their own top leaders.

…#Defense Secy #PeteHegseth [drunk rapist] has previously said that General Brown should be fired because of his “woke” focus on #diversity, #equity & #inclusion programs in the #military.

#law #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #MilitaryPreparedness #NationalSecurity


#Trump fired the country’s senior #military officer on Fri after weeks of turmoil at the #Pentagon, injecting #politics into selecting the nation’s top military leader.

Gen Charles Q. Brown Jr, a four-star fighter pilot known as C.Q. who became only the second African American to hold the chairman’s job, is to be replaced by a retired three-star Air Force general, John D. Caine, who endeared himself to the president when they met in Iraq 6 yrs ago.

#law #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #NationalSecurity


DOGE Dives Into Core National Defense and Data Systems Across Government
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-dives-into-core-national-defense-and-data-systems-across-government

"DOGE currently has far deeper and far more extensive access to US #government computer systems — and is far deeper into the #NationalSecurity space — than is conceivably necessary for anything related to their notional brief & goals...

( #CISA), the agency charged w/the defense of the federal government’s civilian computer networks"

#ElonMusk #Musk #Coup #Politics #Data #Security #News #US #USA
Headline:
DOGE Dives Into Core National Defense and Data Systems Across Government


The Ridiculous & Disturbing Things Elon Musk’s DOGE Staff Are Doing

Elon Musk’s teenage #DOGE workers are running amok through the federal government.
https://newrepublic.com/post/191759/elon-musk-doge-cronies-federal-agencies

“every #hacker in the world knows there are a small number of people new to federal service who hold the keys to access all US #government payments, contracts, civil servant personal info, and more,” they wrote. “DOGE is one romance #scam away from a #NationalSecurity emergency.”

#Musk #Coup #Tech #News #USA #US
Headline and photo with credit.

Headline: 
The Ridiculous and Disturbing Things Elon Musk’s DOGE Staff Are Doing

Elon Musk’s teenage DOGE workers are running amok through the federal government.

by Edith Olmsted/
February 20, 2025/12:27 p.m. ET
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Photo: A person holds up a sign that says, "Delete DOGE" during an anti-Trump and anti-Elon Musk protest
Credit: Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu/Getty Images


Meta removes Facebook ad criticizing Musk
https://www.muskwatch.com/p/meta-removes-facebook-ad-criticizing

"Meta removed an advertisement earlier this month criticizing Elon Musk’s use of ... #DOGE to seize #Americans' private information. "A single individual now controls sensitive US #data, risking our #NationalSecurity. Urge #Congress to enforce strict oversight," read the rejected Facebook ad"

#ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #SocialMedia #Facebook #Meta #Politics #USPol #News #USNews #US #USA
Headline and text from article:

Headline: Meta removes Facebook ad criticizing Musk

by Caleb Ecarma
Feb 18, 2025

Text: Meta removed an advertisement earlier this month criticizing Elon Musk’s use of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to seize Americans' private information. "A single individual now controls sensitive U.S. data, risking our national security. Urge Congress to enforce strict oversight," read the rejected Facebook ad purchased by Ekō, a watchdog group that says it is committed to curbing corporate power. The ad linked to an online petition, which has received roughly 95,000 signatures, calling for "a massive public outcry demanding US lawmakers take action [against Musk and DOGE] before more damage is done."


The Worst and the Dimmest
https://www.the-reframe.com/the/

"What he's doing is illegal, if you care about #law... It's a #NationalSecurity crisis, if you care about national #security. It's unconstitutional, if you care about the #Constitution. It's likely to be devastating to the #economy, if you care about the economy... It's the most corrupt activity in the history of our country, if you care about #corruption."
- @JuliusGoat

#Musk #Coup #Republicans #Trump #Politics #USPol #US #USA #Media
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...the richest man in the world fired off a couple Nazi salutes for the delight of the voting base and then he and his gang of pimple-faced digital stoßtruppen started firing everyone else...

It's smash-and-grab looting of our entire shared life together as human society, enacted by a guy who needs none of it, a man who has fattened himself in time of slaughter, who eats long after he is full to bursting, who grinds other humans between his strange teeth just for the love of chewing. And one thing I know about Republicans is that they either love it or they don't give a shit, and you'll know it too, if you ask them.

What he's doing is illegal, if you care about law. It's massively expensive, if you care about expense. It's a national security crisis, if you care about national security. It's unconstitutional, if you care about the Constitution. It's likely to be devastating to the economy, if you care about the economy. It's burning the future for us and for our children, if you care about children. It's the most corrupt activity in the history of our country, if you care about corruption. Republican Americans claim to care about these things. They observably do not.

No Republican with any power to do anything about this is doing anything to stop any of it, and almost all Republicans at whatever level of power are either monumentally complacent or actually happy about what's happening.