Fox propagandists scramble to explain former colleagues texting war plans to a reporter

[Nevilledog]

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-propagandists-scramble-explain-former-colleagues-texting-war-plans-reporter

The revelation that top Trump aides discussed plans for military strikes in an unsecured text chain — and inadvertently included a journalist in the group — is a case study in how President Donald Trump’s pattern of hiring wildly unqualified Fox News personalities for top administration positions can generate crises. But the Trumpist propaganda network’s current stars are doing their best to run cover for their former colleagues, telling their viewers that “the state-run legacy media mob” is conspiring to attack the administration and the “the bigger takeaway” from the messages is that America is in good hands.

Earlier this month, former Fox weekend morning host turned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared “operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing” in a Signal group chat, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg reported Monday

The group’s membership apparently included National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, both former Fox contributors, as well as Vice President JD Vance and several other senior White House officials and Cabinet secretaries. It also included Goldberg, who was apparently included inadvertently by Waltz. Goldberg did not mention any signs of dismay from the group, suggesting that this may not have been the first time such information had been shared in this way.

Sharing such information over Signal rather than relying on the facilities established for handling highly classified information constitutes a massive security breach that may have put American lives at risk and violated federal law, according to experts consulted by Goldberg and other reporters.

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[Hugin]

1. Even though they have state of the art secure communications available 24/7...

through a combination of incompetence and laziness they opted to expose our military to treasonous levels of danger.

This WILL cost lives. The lives of serious people who have dedicated their lives and have sworn an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution.

[Martin Eden]

2. These "chats" can be deleted, whereas such discussions are supposed to be archived

I suspect they're purposely using chat more than we know, to avoid producing records of their conversations.

Including Goldberg in this one is the only reason it has come to light, and that indeed was incompetence.