Signalgate resets the standard of scrutiny for Team Trump

[marmar]

Signalgate resets the standard of scrutiny for Team Trump
Deleting official communications is a federal crime, punishable by up to ten years in prison

By Sabrina Haake
Contributing Writer
Published April 1, 2025 6:00AM (EDT)


(Salon) .....(snip).....

All angles spell danger for the Republic

The Signal breach is appalling from all sides, each so dangerous that it is hard to determine which angle is more threatening from a national security perspective:

* That Secretary of Defense Hegseth sloppily jeopardized the lives of US service members, or his reflexive, dry drunk anger at being asked about it.

* That Trump didn’t appear to know (or remember) anything about the scandal several hours after it broke on international news, or that he doesn’t understand why it matters.

* That his spokes child tried (again) to discredit the media, or that she thinks “war plan” vs. “attack plan” is a meaningful semantic distinction when targets, weaponry, and attack sequencing are revealed to enemy eyes.

* That the national security advisor went on Fox News to take ‘full responsibility’ for the Signal error, or that he then called the Atlantic editor ‘scum’ for reporting the story in the first place.

* That Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, doesn’t know that US intelligence laws apply to all “national defense information,” not just “classified information,” or Trump’s irrelevant, false messaging that “no classified information” was included on the Signal exchange.

As the absurdity of this clown car of ignorance and arrogance unfolds, the most dangerous aspect of it has, at least so far, received the least media attention: Trump advisors are exchanging official communications on an app deliberately set to delete all evidence of their communications, which appears to be their standard operating procedure.

Trump’s team is breaking federal law by deleting evidence

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, testified this week at a Congressional hearing that the Signal app came “pre-installed on government devices,” suggesting its use was not limited to the Yemen fiasco. From the content of the group chat published this week by The Atlantic — only published because Trump officials kept lying about what was on it — Signal looks like the default method used by administration officials to communicate with one another. The Yemen group chat explicitly referred to another such chat, making clear that this was not their first. .................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/04/01/signalgate-resets-the-standard-of-scrutiny-for-team/

[dutch777]

1. The standard is there is no standard. Doesn't matter when you can pardon all.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Mass firing, mass pardons. Problem sanitized. Rinse and repeat. /nt