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Mayor Pete torches the f**kups in charge [1]
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Date: 2025-03-25
In an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins last night, Pete Buttigieg did NOT hold back, slamming the administration officials who chatted on an unsecure Signal channel about an impending military strike — with the editor of The Atlantic dialed in, no less.
Here’s the interview.
Did Pete lose his cool? He did not. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen Mayor Pete this spit-fire angry. And his words, as always, cut with stiletto precision.
Buttigieg drew on his experience, not only as a former cabinet official, but as a former intelligence officer in the military. He pointed out that
“. . . you would have to go out of your way to take classified information and move it into an unclassified system . . . It’s not like there’s a computer where you might get an unclassified e-mail and a classified e-mail in the same in-box.
They’re not even on the same computers — by design. It is very difficult for information to move from one system to another, unless someone goes out of their way to do that.”
And further:
“. . . I know it was drilled into us back when I was an intelligence officer that if you ever took top secret information, moved it over to an unclassified system and disclosed it, that that would be a crime. I can’t tell you how much that was drilled into us when I was in the military.”
It was drilled into him so much that he’d have nightmares about forgetting to leave his cell phone outside the SCIF before receiving classified information.
I used to be a teacher. I remember being told forcefully upon reporting for my first day of student teaching that my only legal obligation was to take attendance. This gave me pause, as I contemplated the cost of my graduate school education. Nonetheless, I had nightmares in advance of every school year thereafter that I would forget — on the first day, when I didn’t know the students — to take attendance. Consider the magnitude of difference between failing to take attendance and failing to keep classified information secure. We’re talking sweating bullets here — but only if you care.
As Pete pointed out, the people currently in charge don’t care: “it’s all a joke to them,” whether its recklessly firing air traffic controllers that are already in short supply or engineers that maintain the nuclear arsenal; or spilling out classified information that can endanger troops on a mission, which no Trump or Musk has ever been on.
“Having the most powerful people in your country not take their responsibilities seriously can be lethal.”
Collins asked if someone should be fired. Without pause:
“Absolutely. These guys like to talk a lot about merit. If there’s not accountability for a screw-up like this, especially from a president who used to fire people every day on television for sport, then what are we even doing here.”
Touché.
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