Summary
Trump appointed Elon Musk, head of the DOGE, to investigate how a journalist was accidentally added to a Signal chat discussing military operations in Yemen.
National Security Adviser Mike Waltz admitted fault but could not explain how the contact was saved. Trump speculated that the journalist may have added himself.
The investigation will involve Musk’s technical team, the National Security Council, and White House lawyers.
A federal lawsuit challenges the use of Signal for government communication, alleging it violates federal law.
Ok let’s suppose you could though. Wouldn’t that make it EVEN MORE criminally negligent to discuss classified info there?
Right??? Like oh my actual god, if a journalist could do this (it’s completely, categorically impossible), then every nation-state on Earth would use it to trivially eavesdrop.
Yeah, this would make the story exponentially worse. It’d be like if you got caught cheating on your wife and went "whoa calm down! I didn’t know that woman, she just showed up to my Friday night gang bang unannounced!”
exactly. I use and love signal. its a fantastic privacy tool - seriously! but the amount of pure stupid on display by this administration is just too much to take.