Sen. Angus King (I-ME) appeared to catch DNI Tulsi Gabbard in a big lie when she repeatedly claimed during Senate testimony that no classified data was leaked in Trump administration data breach.
I mean, this is the same group of people that have continued to support the Orange tyrant after he committed treason and espionage by stealing secret docs and leaving them lying around his club for foreign nationals to steal.
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET When you surround yourself with unqualified, incompetent, inexperienced, and less than intelligent sycophants like Trump purposely did. As he said years ago, he loves the “uneducated“. Well, that’s what he got. And that’s what we get, which could be our demise if this entire group of unqualified, inexperienced people with no merit whatsoever, who should not be in the positions he pushed them into, as he bullied Republicans to approve these people when the Republicans knew better, but were afraid to lose something personally… You know the story, so this is on Trump! ALL of it, and every one of them should be fired and replaced by people who deserve those positions due to the merit of their history, their experience and their intelligence. THIS IS AN OUTRAGE, AND YOU CAN’T STUFF THE CHICK BACK INTO THE EGG. WE ARE EXPOSED WITH THIS, AND IT IS A SIGN THAT THERE’S MUCH MORE WE ARE NOT AWARE OF. POTUS must be replaced.
That's what I was thinking --- somehow I doubt this little "Bro-Chat" on Signal was their only little indiscretion ....... I have a feeling that there have a lot more breaches .......
DJT, Jr said his dad wanted people dumber than him in his cabinet. That is a high bar given CFDT’s innumerable f’ ups. However, he certainly has folks who definitely reaching his equal.
We have to get of Vance as well…he was on that chat/email! And we have to get rid of all the Boot Licking GOP who were involved in Jan 6. Mosses Mike Johnson was the architect , so he’s got to go, as does all off the GOP…Greed Over People!
I held a TS/SCI for six years, after passing a counterintelligence polygraph. As a former coworker said when she messaged me about this earlier, “we would have been in jail by dinner time”, if we had done anything so epically stupid as what they’ve done.
Gabbard is either lying her ass off or even more incompetent and unqualified than I already knew her to be.
Yes, and the penalty is an automatic decade in Ft. Leavenworth. I signed the same paperwork and then made a habit of not knowing a thing for the next 20 years.
I find it absolutely terrifying that this happened in the first place, that they are minimizing its occurrence at all, and that heads are not absolutely ROLLING....What if the journalist had not been someone of moral integrity? What if someone who had been on that "text chain" decided to spread that information where it could have caused deaths? WHY was classified information, plans to bomb ANYONE, being discussed in a friggin TEXT CHAIN and not in a secure SCIF facility??????? Maybe I've read too many spy novels, but I KNOW this type of information should not be disseminated over text messages.
Texts are encrypted, but operation related messages for broadcast are encrypted and then encrypted again, and sometimes have a third level of encryption. Lots of fascinating machinery is involved, and nobody is going to figure out what was sent without a supercomputer and a couple of decades.
Tulsi Gabbard is inept, a liar as well as a shill for the Russians. She should never have been confirmed along with the lot of the rest. Republicans own this one, they wanted her even though they knew she was unqualified just as is Hegseth and the rest. This is what dismantling the intelligence community looks like. Liars and shills. So Americans who voted for this, Feel safe yet?
Exactly and yet Sen. King’s Maine colleague, Sen. Susan Collins, voted to confirm after Gabbard “eased some of her concerns” during the hearings. I suspect Gabbard was lying then just as she is now. So whaddya think now, Susan? Proud of your capitulation and blind allegiance?
So disappointed in Collins for everything. Including her voting against Trump's first impeachment and claiming he learned his lesson, to the fact she has not been holding town halls in over 20 years. She needed to go long ago!
Relegating national security and the lives of service. men and women to an after school detention. Now, run along and try not to do it again. WTF? There exist so many recognised and mandatory security levels to be set up in advance before such exchanges can take place - OR - it is wilful side-stepping of national security obligations: treason.
Lies under oath - claims target, time, place etc not to be classified info. Not an intelligent Director of Intelligence! complete failure- working for the orange man who is more concerned about his portrait in CO. Go figure
Surprise. His portrait and need to cheat on his frequent golf trips at the taxpayers expense. Not to mention making guest appearances at sports events. He needs to go and the Repugs need to say enough already and DO THEIR JOBS.
This was a good hearing to watch for the grilling that Gabbard and Ratcliffe received. It was a horrifying hearing in what it shows us about Gabbard and Ratcliffe's willingness to lie. Heads should roll, but I fear they won't.
I'll be shocked if heads roll. It would be an admission of ineptness on the administration. And that would reflect negatively on Trump. I doubt he would allow someone to be fired.
just the words " allowing someone to be fired.." If HE allows it. This is hpw bad it has become. National security errors are judged by one man, with vested interest in not making judgements against himself, ever. Needs another lever. The American people have to go on the street and demonstrate in numbers.
I’m listening in UK to the debacle on the BBC. Unbelievable double standards to put it mildly and as a former chief of the US military has just said rule 1 own up to such a huge mistake..Rule 2 some heads have to roll and Rule 3 intelligence sharing between the US and the world ( apart from Russia I guess) is now under scrutiny and so it should seriously unbelievable..
intelligence sharing IS between Russia and White House - standard. Who was the individual already in Russia ( probably had it on loud speaker to make it easier for his comrades to listen in, ffs).
those three were smart men. Comedy is tough. The Trump Canal of Felons is inept, stupid and a disgrace to America--every one of them, as well as the entire Congressional GOP caucus.
Liars who put an active military operation in jeopardy and the lives of our military in dire danger. They were on an unsecured chat Thread discussing the specifics of the attack on Yemen two (2)) hours before the attack! Tulsi was overseas and another official was in Russia while on the chat, how irresponsible of them. Why wasn’t hegseth and Rubio at this hearing? They should be held accountable for this breech of security, we can’t afford to have these unqualified people learning on the job at the risk of our national defense.
This is just breathtaking. The lies continue. A cabal of incompetence. Unfortunately the incompetence could get us all killed
I mean, this is the same group of people that have continued to support the Orange tyrant after he committed treason and espionage by stealing secret docs and leaving them lying around his club for foreign nationals to steal.
She is a lying, incompetent Russian stooge. Perfect for the Trump circus.
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET When you surround yourself with unqualified, incompetent, inexperienced, and less than intelligent sycophants like Trump purposely did. As he said years ago, he loves the “uneducated“. Well, that’s what he got. And that’s what we get, which could be our demise if this entire group of unqualified, inexperienced people with no merit whatsoever, who should not be in the positions he pushed them into, as he bullied Republicans to approve these people when the Republicans knew better, but were afraid to lose something personally… You know the story, so this is on Trump! ALL of it, and every one of them should be fired and replaced by people who deserve those positions due to the merit of their history, their experience and their intelligence. THIS IS AN OUTRAGE, AND YOU CAN’T STUFF THE CHICK BACK INTO THE EGG. WE ARE EXPOSED WITH THIS, AND IT IS A SIGN THAT THERE’S MUCH MORE WE ARE NOT AWARE OF. POTUS must be replaced.
That's what I was thinking --- somehow I doubt this little "Bro-Chat" on Signal was their only little indiscretion ....... I have a feeling that there have a lot more breaches .......
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You said all of that so beautifully I can't add to it except, for I think we haven't seen anything yet.
DJT, Jr said his dad wanted people dumber than him in his cabinet. That is a high bar given CFDT’s innumerable f’ ups. However, he certainly has folks who definitely reaching his equal.
You said a mouthful. Well, they are living down to expectations.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/don-jr-says-his-fathers-second-administration-cabinet-must-be-dumber-than-him
That’s initially shocking. Then I remember who we’re talking about.
very well said!!
We have to get of Vance as well…he was on that chat/email! And we have to get rid of all the Boot Licking GOP who were involved in Jan 6. Mosses Mike Johnson was the architect , so he’s got to go, as does all off the GOP…Greed Over People!
This is what you get when you elect an f’ing criminal to be president. He surrounded himself with those like him and we are good and truly f^cked
I held a TS/SCI for six years, after passing a counterintelligence polygraph. As a former coworker said when she messaged me about this earlier, “we would have been in jail by dinner time”, if we had done anything so epically stupid as what they’ve done.
Gabbard is either lying her ass off or even more incompetent and unqualified than I already knew her to be.
She's guilty of all the above.
She’s a disgrace
She lying her ass off and is both profoundly incompetent and unqualified. You’ve hit the nail on the head.
Yes, and the penalty is an automatic decade in Ft. Leavenworth. I signed the same paperwork and then made a habit of not knowing a thing for the next 20 years.
We are still finding out the actual consequences of his reelection, and they are terrifying.
We desperately need a hand recount and bogus ballots discarded.
I find it absolutely terrifying that this happened in the first place, that they are minimizing its occurrence at all, and that heads are not absolutely ROLLING....What if the journalist had not been someone of moral integrity? What if someone who had been on that "text chain" decided to spread that information where it could have caused deaths? WHY was classified information, plans to bomb ANYONE, being discussed in a friggin TEXT CHAIN and not in a secure SCIF facility??????? Maybe I've read too many spy novels, but I KNOW this type of information should not be disseminated over text messages.
Texts are encrypted, but operation related messages for broadcast are encrypted and then encrypted again, and sometimes have a third level of encryption. Lots of fascinating machinery is involved, and nobody is going to figure out what was sent without a supercomputer and a couple of decades.
They lie like their boss.
Tulsi Gabbard is inept, a liar as well as a shill for the Russians. She should never have been confirmed along with the lot of the rest. Republicans own this one, they wanted her even though they knew she was unqualified just as is Hegseth and the rest. This is what dismantling the intelligence community looks like. Liars and shills. So Americans who voted for this, Feel safe yet?
Exactly and yet Sen. King’s Maine colleague, Sen. Susan Collins, voted to confirm after Gabbard “eased some of her concerns” during the hearings. I suspect Gabbard was lying then just as she is now. So whaddya think now, Susan? Proud of your capitulation and blind allegiance?
So disappointed in Collins for everything. Including her voting against Trump's first impeachment and claiming he learned his lesson, to the fact she has not been holding town halls in over 20 years. She needed to go long ago!
“[H]e learned his lesson”! The only thing he learned is how gullible people can be and once snookered, you can snooker them again.
Relegating national security and the lives of service. men and women to an after school detention. Now, run along and try not to do it again. WTF? There exist so many recognised and mandatory security levels to be set up in advance before such exchanges can take place - OR - it is wilful side-stepping of national security obligations: treason.
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Collins is a jerk. I can’t believe she was reelected.
Collins knew better. Just giving herself some cover.
Lies under oath - claims target, time, place etc not to be classified info. Not an intelligent Director of Intelligence! complete failure- working for the orange man who is more concerned about his portrait in CO. Go figure
Surprise. His portrait and need to cheat on his frequent golf trips at the taxpayers expense. Not to mention making guest appearances at sports events. He needs to go and the Repugs need to say enough already and DO THEIR JOBS.
This was a good hearing to watch for the grilling that Gabbard and Ratcliffe received. It was a horrifying hearing in what it shows us about Gabbard and Ratcliffe's willingness to lie. Heads should roll, but I fear they won't.
I'll be shocked if heads roll. It would be an admission of ineptness on the administration. And that would reflect negatively on Trump. I doubt he would allow someone to be fired.
Sadly, I'm sure you are correct.
No one wants to work for him
Obviously there are some willing to sell out the American people.
Sadly.
just the words " allowing someone to be fired.." If HE allows it. This is hpw bad it has become. National security errors are judged by one man, with vested interest in not making judgements against himself, ever. Needs another lever. The American people have to go on the street and demonstrate in numbers.
I’m listening in UK to the debacle on the BBC. Unbelievable double standards to put it mildly and as a former chief of the US military has just said rule 1 own up to such a huge mistake..Rule 2 some heads have to roll and Rule 3 intelligence sharing between the US and the world ( apart from Russia I guess) is now under scrutiny and so it should seriously unbelievable..
I wouldn't share my grandmother's chocolate chip cookie recipe with Gabbard.
intelligence sharing IS between Russia and White House - standard. Who was the individual already in Russia ( probably had it on loud speaker to make it easier for his comrades to listen in, ffs).
As a kid I used to enjoy watching Moe, Larry & Curly. Now it seems they've found their way into Our national intelligence community.
There’s lots more than 3 stooges in this administration
yes, but having as a default Moe, Larry and Curly...for the President, VP and Hegs-alcky is a good position.. Would love that to stick!
those three were smart men. Comedy is tough. The Trump Canal of Felons is inept, stupid and a disgrace to America--every one of them, as well as the entire Congressional GOP caucus.
I watched and couldn’t believe the lies. So ashamed of the republicans
Gabbard had committed a serious breach of her duty to protect and defend our country without lying and CYA
She must think everybody is as stupid as her to believe the lies she puts forward
Liars who put an active military operation in jeopardy and the lives of our military in dire danger. They were on an unsecured chat Thread discussing the specifics of the attack on Yemen two (2)) hours before the attack! Tulsi was overseas and another official was in Russia while on the chat, how irresponsible of them. Why wasn’t hegseth and Rubio at this hearing? They should be held accountable for this breech of security, we can’t afford to have these unqualified people learning on the job at the risk of our national defense.
Rubio was traveling to Jamaica; Hegseth to Honolulu.