Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Editorial: What Are They Hiding?

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Set your Wayback Machine to the House Select Committee on Benghazi hearings on March 4, 2015! They were investigating Secretary of State Hillary Clinton use of a private email server. All totaled Secretary Clinton received  House Republicans issued over 70 subpoenas and letters as part of broader investigations into Clinton-related matters while she was in office.

Fast forward to today…
AP News
By  CHRIS MEGERIAN
March 29, 2025


President Donald Trump on Saturday made his clearest commitment to not fire anyone over an embarrassing accidental leak of his administration’s plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen.

“I don’t fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News’ Kristen Welker.

He also said that he had confidence in Mike Waltz, his national security adviser, and Pete Hegseth, his Pentagon chief.

Waltz inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic magazine, to a group text using the Signal encrypted messaging service where top officials were discussing plans to attack the Houthis.
Is there a parallel?

What are the Republicans in Congress focusing upon? The use of an unclassified app? No… The violation of Federal Records Act? No… Who invited the reporter? Yes…

This shows that at a high level the disregarding for laws and security, and exposing the backroom antics by cabinet level people to the light of the public. This is more than the use of an unclassified app and the violation of federal laws… this goes to the morality of the politicians. How twisted the Republican party has become.

You have to wonder about what they are hiding when they use an app they disappears in 30 days? Why do the cabinet Secretaries think they have to hide their conversation from the public? I am on a government committee and if more than a certain of us meet we have to record our “meeting” when the committee does meet it is recorded, but somehow these government offices think this is okay?

I suggest you look back in history to the time of the Robber Barons for parallels. Tammany Hall and the breaking up of the monopolies… we did it once we can do it again.

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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous4/1/25, 5:51 PM

    You are aware this app you describe as “unclassified” was approved for government use by the Biden Administration, correct?

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    1. Diana_CT4/1/25, 7:17 PM

      It was not approved for classified material. From Perplexity AI:
      The Biden administration approved the use of Signal for limited purposes but did not authorize it for sharing classified information. In 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued guidance encouraging highly targeted government officials to use Signal as a "best practice" for secure communication against cyber threats. However, this guidance emphasized caution and prohibited using Signal to transmit classified or non-public information.
      https://www.factcheck.org/2025/03/was-the-signal-chat-illegal/

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