Step 1: Include infamous Trump-hating TDS reporter on top-secret classified Signal chat group “by mistake”
Step 2: Sit back and laugh as Democrats and mainstream media melt down for days, hyperventilating about the dangers of sharing classified information
Step 3: Release the full transcript proving none of the information was classified and it’s all a big nothing burger
Step 4: Release the evidence that shows the Biden / Obama administrations really did use Signal for classified discussions
Step 5: Democrats and mainstream media are trapped - they can’t ignore or downplay the new revelations like they would have done if Trump had simply released it without first preparing the battlefield
Trump did the same with VP Biden’s theft of classified documents. Before releasing those details, he tricked the media into hyperventilating for weeks about Trump’s alleged ‘theft’ of classified documents (Trump as President had full DECLAS authority).
Not our trolls, they are patriotic Norwegians that know where they belong.
They have been here since the Viking age, if not before. They don’t stray into foreign lands.
Funny thing is that real estate investor golf buddy of Trump Witkoff who’s the Ukraine and Middle East Envoy was in Moscow chatting away on signal during these plans. Reports say he was actually at the Kremlin during this chat. Babylon Bee and The Onion may soon be superfluous.
I’ve been trying to cut back on my political discourse here, but this is the most pure example of gaslighting. Actual official admin stance:
Advanced details to the literal minute of modes, timing, and launch of each wave of strike aircraft and drones bombing a sovereign territory: Not Classified
Details of weeks-ago flights of migrant workers being deported: State Secrets
Curtis LeMay was Chief of Staff when I received my commission in the Air Force. All of us, especially junior officers, were aware of his attitude toward screwups: “I do not have the time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.”
Would the individuals & authors reponsible for this screw up be able to do same in 1963 irrespective of their competence or alleged lack of it.?
Luckily this screw up happened when peer competitor was not targeted and there is a good chance to learn from it.
However reading/hearing their lame explanations/justifications it is fair to say the following:
Irrespective how thin you slice it , it is still baloney.
But a “charge” is not a “conviction”. And by your standards, several presidents may have been “overqualified” to be POTUS. I keep being reminded of a “witness” against a Supreme Court nominee, who said she observed drugs and rape going on at a party, seeing women attacked (and my poor paraphrasing) decided to go to another of those parties. These days, I’m beginning to wonder if we will ever be able to find someone with a “clean record”. One last thing, all it takes is an accusation (and I’m not ruling “innocent” or “guilty”.) to "convict in a public forum. People will always remember the accusation but never whether the charges proved true or not.
“Would the individuals & authors reponsible for this screw up be able to do same in 1963 irrespective of their competence or alleged lack of it.?”
Short answer: Only if they went outside the controlled area to a pay phone, called the reporter and told him. And in 1963 the chances would be very good that the reporter would immediately call the FBI. In those days operational data was classified TS and the rules were that, in general, TS information was not to be written down or discussed over the telephone. Written TS orders stayed in the controlled area and were transmitted from location to location via NSA provided crypto.
That was 1963. After the Tonkin Gulf Resolution the operational tempo increased and things loosened up somewhat.
