Signal-Gate worse than Trump's past intel scandals in a way

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To put it frankly: no one works for a three -letters agency in Washington, President Trump Trump to keep his mouth closed.

From the start of his first mandate, Trump showed so little respect for the secrets of the nations that he moved the relations between the American Intel community and those of our strongest allies. Less than a month after the start of employment, Trump and the Japanese Prime Minister trace Their response to a launch of North Korean missiles on the outdoor patio of Mar a Lago, whose photos found themselves on Facebook. Then Trump common Israeli intelligence with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia in May 2017, dreadful Intel Israeli leaders. Subsequently, a spy for the United States inside the Vladimir Poutins regime was extract On the fears, Trump and his team were sloppy with the secrets of the nations and could put the cage in danger.

Also that year, Trump praised to his Philippin counterpart that he had two nuclear submarines off the coast of North Korea and common The details of a bombing of the Manchester Arena before the British was ready to publish them to release them from the British espionage services to extinguish the tap of secrets for a spell. And him required His interpreter returns his notes after a meeting with Putin, which prompted some in the Intel community to suspect that he had reversed more secrets in Moscow. Trumps Florida Retreat has become a brand For spies around the world.

Two years later, Trump Tweetedyes, tweeted! Hope of satellite images on Iran which confirmed the American capacity to examine the backgrounds of adversaries and confirmed a capacity that had been in doubt, at least publicly. That same year, he praised In Bob Woodward that the United States had nuclear tools that would shock Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin.

Everything that happened before August 2022, when FBI agents made a descent to Mar a Lago to recover classified documents that seemed to follow Trump from his presidency when he returned to privacy.

This trace of Trumpian of carelessness with the most precious secrets of the nations puts the revelations which prevail over senior management discussed an active military operation on an unprotected messaging platform in a different light. During his first mandate, the intelligence community could consider Trump as the chaos agent that those around him did their best to contain. But the details of the signal cat which Atlantic The editor -in -chief Jeffrey Goldberg inadvertently had access to show how different things are in Trumps in the second term. Negligence has spread beyond the big guy himself, infiltrating those who are responsible for achieving his agenda.

The indifference to keep the dirty Americas buried in the basket was one of the rare constants of Trumpism, as was a philosophy of See-No-Evil by the president in response to the front shift details which amazed the national security hawks of all the history.

They did a big problem of that because we had two perfect months, said Trump on Tuesday, responding to Tobut not really responding to journalists from the reason why his national security advisor Mike Waltz added Goldberg to a conversation which also included vice-president JD Vance, the defense secretary Pete HegsethSecretary of State Marco RubioAnd the head of spy Tulsi Gabbard.

In a interview With NBC News on Tuesday, Trump described the only problem in two months.

In fact, Trump seemed to treat the whole incident as an embarrassment that moved him away from his agenda soaked in chaos.

It was not classified, Trump said During a session with visit diplomats. Now, if its classified information, it's probably a little different. But, I always say, you have to learn from each experience.

Early Wednesday, The Atlantic released A slice of messages to allow the public to see more widely what had been discussed in this signal conversation, including the messages of Hegseth which included the precise chronology of the air strikes planned to start about two hours later than the most classified. The administration called the whole history a hoax and a disinformation, and said that this did not prove reprehensible acts, while the Democrats supported Exact opposite in real time. It was a classic reality to choose your adventure.

Instead of attacking the terrible error, the GOP legislators mainly ignored it over two days of previously scheduled audiences featuring the best Nat-SEC players. During the hearing of the Tuesday Senate on global threats, they asked exactly no questions about the conversation that Understood The name of a CIA official, active targets and timing, weapons and planes involved in surprise on March 15 attack On Houthi Yemens activists. While Time Nik Popli, on the hill of audiences, reported it, the senior intelligence officials insisted that nothing was badly shared in the outdoor or external plane on the strikes.

On Wednesday, when an intel house panel convened with the same administration officials, the tone continued to be the incredulous that the details of any unfolding military action were shared on an application widely considered as a vulnerability for hackersby widely considered as targets of hacking foreign opponents. The Republicans maintained their team defense, the Dan Crenshaw representative of Texas jokingly on the details. I will note that I always use fire emojis when I see terrorists being killed, he said, referring to the waltzes answer In the cat with a military attack in the process of reaching, apparently reaching its target.

Crenshaws Quip reflected the attitude of a large part of the Trumps base, which largely dismissed the signal door, while adopting a case of case of amnesia on how almost everyone On the disclosed channel, had castigated the former secretary of state Hillary Clinton in 2016 on the apparent disaster of national security of Elle using a private messaging account by the predecessor Colin Powell used During his time as President George W. Bushs, the best diplomat. These allegations gave birth to years of locking songs during trumps rallies.