• tal@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    “How did a Trump-hating editor of The Atlantic end up on your Signal chat?” Laura Ingraham asked.

    “You know, Laura, I’m not a conspiracy theorist,” Waltz replied. “But of all the people out there, somehow this guy who has lied about the president, who has lied to Gold Star families, lied to their attorneys, and gone to Russia hoax, gone to all kinds of lengths to lie and smear the president of the United States and he’s the one that somehow gets on somebody’s contact and then gets sucked into this group.”

    Honestly, I really hope that the next administration, regardless of which party it is, dispenses with the constant and unending stream of bullshit. I really don’t want this sort of thing to become established as the new normal.

    It’s not even over a significant issue here; it seems like an insane thing to use credibility on. Like, Waltz could say “I clicked on the wrong person”, and I don’t think that anyone is going to wig out about it. The fact that they were on Signal in the first place, not to mention using poor operational security while on it is the much more concerning issue, but he’s not denying that.

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    3 months ago

    Waltz admitted to doing it. They admitted to using a fucking app over established communications to avoid being on the record. That’s your investigation. Luckily it’s so simple I bet even musks teenagers could figure it out.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, but they’re not being paid to uncover that particular truth. Watch them somehow lock up the journalist over this.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, do we really need a deep dive for RCA here!? It’s pretty obvious that incompetent people behaved incompetently.