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Worst Part Of SignalGate - Hiding The Record Is Conspiracy Against The Government Itself [1]
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Date: 2025-03-25
As Josh Marshall writes today in Talking Points Memo, “SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part Of It”.
“… the simple logic of the matter tells us this [the use of Signal] is commonplace in the new administration. You think Mike Waltz got fat fingers and accidentally added Goldberg on the first time out? Not likely.
“Especially in the national security domain, many things the government does have to remain secret. Sometimes those things remain secret for years or decades. But they’re not secrets from the U.S. government. The U.S. government owns all those communications, all those facts of its own history. Using a Signal app like this is hiding what’s happening from the government itself. And that is almost certainly not an unintended byproduct but the very reason for the use. These are disappearing communications. They won’t be in the National Archives. Future administrations won’t know what happened. There also won’t be any records to determine whether crimes were committed.
”… This all goes to the fundamental point Trump has never been able to accept: that the U.S. government is the property of the American people and it persists over time with individual officeholders merely temporary occupants charged with administering an entity they don’t own or possess … Which is probably one reason there’s so much use of Signal … It’s the obvious place for bribes, various kinds of criminal conduct, asking foreign governments to do dirty jobs, maybe against American citizens, that Trump doesn’t dare try himself.
“The lack of operational security is bad. But the embedded conspiracy against the government itself is worse.”
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