rump attacks journalist who revealed security breach

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1. NSA knew Signal was vulnerable to Russian hackers before security breach

Story by David Badash • 3h • 4 min read

The National Security Agency was reportedly aware of vulnerabilities in the messaging app Signal weeks before 18 top Trump administration national security and defense officials used the app in a group chat to plan the recent bombing of Yemen. Those vulnerabilities, an NSA memo warned, were being exploited by Russian hackers. Details have also emerged that at least two top administration officials who were in the chat were overseas, including one in Moscow — where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The use of the Signal app by the upper echelon of Donald Trump’s national security and defense team has rocked the nation, fueling concerns over the mishandling of sensitive—and potentially classified—information in ways that may be unlawful. These fears are seemingly compounded by Trump’s alleged mishandling of hundreds of classified documents, which led to criminal charges that were ultimately dropped after the U.S. Supreme Court granted presidents broad immunity from prosecution for official acts.

CBS News reports that the National Security Agency (NSA), an arm of the Pentagon, had “sent out an operational security special bulletin to its employees in February 2025 warning them of vulnerabilities in using the encrypted messaging application Signal” ...

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/putin-is-giddy-nsa-knew-signal-was-vulnerable-to-russian-hackers-before-security-breach/ar-AA1BEvkU

[Ocelot II]

2. Of course he is. Goldberg, the only honorable actor in this mess,

will be persecuted relentlessly. Hope he's got security.

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3. Amb. Susan Rice: 'This is an extraordinary breach'

Ambassador Susan Rice, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and President Obama's former National Security Advisor joins Alicia Menendez in for Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the stunning news of a leaked group chat among senior Trump Administration officials that detailed war plans for a military operation in Yemen, and how unprecedented of a leak this is and what is the decision making process amongst these key figures.

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/-this-is-an-extraordinary-breach-amb-susan-rice-reacts-to-leaked-trump-war-plans-group-chat-235339845938

[Eugene]

4. ... at the same time he's insisting that nothing all that important was compromised.

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5. Heads are exploding

March 25, 20253:10 PM ET
Bill Chappell

... "Any one of us that served in the military or serve in the military would be in Leavenworth if we did this," former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a Republican who served as a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard, said via X ...

"These secure rooms are built to discuss classified information," NPR's Greg Myre reports. "You can't take a phone into these rooms. You can't take documents out, and all of these top-ranking national security officials have SCIFs at their offices and at their homes" ...

"Those agencies are absolutely fanatical about secure communications," NPR's Myre says of the CIA and DNI. "Yet based on Goldberg's account, no senior national security official raised concerns about sharing war plans on Signal" ...

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339753/signal-war-plan-breach-security-experts

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6. Oregon lawmakers demand resignations

... Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, said those responsible for the security breach cannot remain in office ...

“The level of incompetence is beyond belief,” U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter, D-Oregon, said in a video to constituents on Tuesday .

“We had our highest-ranking officials on our national security team having open dialogue on a commercial application that’s not secure about war plans, with the inclusion of an undisclosed number. Nobody cared to suggest that maybe a better channel should be used or to ask, ‘Who’s this number?’ The incompetence is not a joke. It put our men and women in uniform’s lives at risk, it put our national security at absolute risk. We are lucky no one died, but they will if we don’t take action.”Senator Jeff Merkley co-wrote a letter to President Trump, demanding answers to the situation. "This is an astonishingly cavalier approach to national security," the letter read, in part. U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, called the situation "incompetent, outrageous, and dangerous," adding that the incident exposes Trump cabinet members as being "picked solely for their loyalty to Donald Trump," and are not fit for office. "The American people are paying the price," she said ...

https://www.newsbreak.com/columbia-county-spotlight-1490216/3871423407426-oregon-lawmakers-demand-resignations-over-u-s-security-breach-on-unsecured-app

[yourout]

7. I think people are missing the point. It was done this way to avoid official records of it

It's not just that it was horrible from a security standpoint it was illegal because they were trying to skirt official documentation.

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8. Colossal screw up but no heads will roll.

[Blue Owl]

9. Is. He. Fucking. Dead. Yet?

Please…..