* it’s okay if you’re a Putin stooge

Pete Hegseth (r) fucks up:

Mark Alford
[March 26, 2025]
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Mark Alford thinks everyone else is stoopit…

There was, as usual, much hilarity in the responses:

Nobody with an IQ over a brussell sprout believes this BS from Pete Whiskeyleaks or you. You, as a former “journalist” should know better.

That one left a mark, Mark.

Mark,
I retired from intelligence work in 2016 as a member of the Army. Secretary Hegseth is wrong. In my experience, those plans about he strikes, and the end results of what they saw, would at the very least be SECRET//NOFORN until after the press releases were ready. The finer details would still be kept classified.
Please exert your Article II powers and ensure the classification regulations and laws are followed. Concerns would be the following:
1.) Adversary nations would potentially be able to break the encryption on Signal, as has been done before. This could provide early warning/detection to targets we do not want to have it.
2.) Acknowledging our TTPs through unclassified/unsecured networks also helps to develop enemy countermeasures to how we conduct operations.
3.) Personnel assigned to these groups may be targeted by hostile intelligence services looking for information to complete our operational picture.

Hey Mark –
Ya’ll are supposed to be about ‘transparency’, right? So curious as to why ol Tulsi wouldn’t even admit she was in the chat when questioned? Why did Hegseth say there was no chat before getting busted on it?
I mean if there is nothing there, why lie in the first place and look like incompetent cover up artists? Why the hell are they using unofficial ways to communicate (and that deletes records of the conversations) and who was the braniac who invited the journalist into the chat – the same journalist that Hegseth and company are now trying to demonize for their own mistake?
You can try to downplay this all you want and just continue churning out what you’re told to say like a good little sheep – but the people are seeing things they don’t care for – and much of it is super hypocritical.
People won’t forget

Alford, did you even read the transcript?
Hegseth is a known alcoholic, a liar and a hypocrite. He fits in well with trump. How can you not be irate and demanding the truth from this joke of a regime? Would you be reacting if the Biden admin ha done this. Give us, we, the people, an honest answer for once.
Thursday, March 13
How Pete Hegseth Signal group chat reacted to war plans. How Pete Hegseth Signal group chat reacted to war plans leak
White House National Security Advisor Michael Waltz: “Team – establishing a principles group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours. My deputy Alex Wong is pulling together a tiger team at deputies/agency Chief of Staff level following up from the meeting in the Sit Room this morning for action items and will be sending that out later this evening.
“Pls provide the best staff POC [point of contact] from your team for us to coordinate with over the next couple days and over the weekend. Thx.”
There’s your target.

Wasn’t the group chat named Houthi PC small group or something like that? And Hegseth listed off times and what was happening at those times?
If this had been something done during the last administration, I’m pretty sure you’d have a different response.

Bingo!

Deflect much? Real shame to see “military supporters” downplaying this idiotic mess. They ALL screwed up big time. Most of us expected something but 2 months in was quite the achievement. But go ahead and double down, per usual.

Regardless of the content it should not have been sent to the journalist. If you appoint incompetent people you get incompetence.

Stop acting like this wasn’t news or a serious security breach. Hegseth is woefully under qualified and his response shows it.

Sounds like a cover up!

Dancing around the Facts! Classifed or not (1) use of an unsecured app. (2) The National Security Agency sent out an operational security special bulletin to its employees in February 2025 warning them of vulnerabilities in using the encrypted messaging application Signal.
A question: Was this the only time any member of the used Signal? A full investigation is warrented of each participants to determine previous security and disclosure abuse.

So tired of unqualified people in highly sensitive positions screwing up, putting real Americans in danger, trying to lie their way out of it and other Republicans misleading Americans about the truth. Trump doesn’t love you Mr. Alford. He will turn on you in a Russion red minute.

Funny you should mention Russia.

Wasn’t the journalist added on the the group by a staffer of Mr Waltz? If so why, where did he get it, if anyone needs to go I’d think it would be him after explaining what happened.

Stop sticking up for those living a××holes

Previously:

But, but her emails… (March 24, 2025)

Unfuckingbelievable (March 24, 2025)

The Atlantic > The New York Times (March 24, 2025)