"we are currently clean on OPSEC", you write to the group chat with the journalist
@molly0xfff this makes me think of the time my friend looked at her husband's open laptop to see a FB message to his mistress saying he would like her posts but not comment on them "as a nod to opsec."
he worked at the NSA. He works at the NSA afaik.
@platypus @molly0xfff
My thing I do in the morning is sip my coffee naked in the big bay window overlooking the road, nodding to opsec
My wife always hollers at me
@molly0xfff remember: this chat contained *sensitive* information, but not *classified* information. The difference of course being that it's dumb but legal to leak sensitive info, but dumb and illegal to leak confidential info...
Really?
I'm ex-military, and there is NO WAY one would ever allow any non-essential person advance notice of an impending operation.
To quote @SeanCasten
"There is absolutely no scenario where detailed timing about an impending US attack, in advance of that attack is not HIGHLY classified."
Definitions are meaningless when "common sense" has already left the building..
@TimePencil @SeanCasten @molly0xfff nonono. Noooobody in *this* regime would do something like that. They've promised that they haven't shared anything confidential. If they did they would have to be held accountable, after all. That wouldn't do!
@tinyrabbit
Such delicious (and justifiable) sarcasm!
I'm going to use a spatula to scrape it off my screen and put it on toast!
Yum yum!
@SeanCasten @molly0xfff
@tinyrabbit @molly0xfff how did that hegseth message not contain any classified info
@pierrotechnique @molly0xfff because they claim it didn't.
If the sarcasm isn't obvious: they're a bunch of idiots who definitely communicated and shared confidential information in violation of the law, but if they admit to that they'd have to be held accountable. Their way out is to claim that it wasn't confidential
@tinyrabbit gotcha -- didn't catch the sarcasm the first time around, apologies!
@pierrotechnique not always easy to do no need to apologise!
@molly0xfff I thought that was "war fighters"? I mean, "soldiers" sounds so pedestrian...
@molly0xfff I think this is proof the next defense will be this was just a basketball fan club, and they’re sorry for liking a team from a liberal city.
@molly0xfff "Warriors." This guy thinks he's Conan the Barbarian.
@wagenseil @molly0xfff 'Warriors' has become a commonly used self-referral term in the US military. This whole 'warrior ethos' has been inculcated for a few decades now, and it makes me want to hurl, it's so fucking barbaric and adolescent.
(_Conan the Barbarian_ is, however, a great flick.)
@wagenseil @molly0xfff (Alt text because I can't figure out how to add it to an existing post in Iceshrimp: David Patrick Kelley from The Warriors with beer bottles on his fingers, clinking them together. Caption reads "Warriors, come out to play-ay")
@molly0xfff I actualy had to LOL with that line xD
@molly0xfff godspeed. These lunatics think this is God's work. The Bible should have been a coloring book so those clowns could understand it
@molly0xfff Remember, FOTUS* only hires 'the best people' --- these folks are the best at arrogance, negligence, incompetence, and deflection.
Relatedly, yesterday FOTUS said they might 'need' to use Signal again "if we were in a hurry." That's total BS since our national security principals are never far from USG-approved secure communications devices, even on vacation.
* Felon of the United States (not a typo)
FOTUS — I’ve seen that a couple times & decided it meant “FUCKUP of the United States”
#FOTUS
@molly0xfff quote of the year.
I liked the bit where Vance messages, "I'm not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now."
Reads to me like Vance saying, "I don't think Trump can tell his left from his right." Reads to me like a show of deep distrust in Trump's cognitive abilities.
@molly0xfff On unsecure devices... in Russia.
I like how they call the people slaughtering innocent men, women, and children with the latest in hi tech military weapons warriors....
They are not warriors..
@molly0xfff is OPSEC in the room with us?
@molly0xfff @sleepytako Maybe they expected Jeff Goldberg to approve
@molly0xfff
Narrator voice: "They were not, in fact, clean on OPSEC."
@molly0xfff opsec is a thing they manage, not something they do.
And by manage of course I mean they have meetings about it so they don't look like total idiots when asked about it.
@molly0xfff I want to know why everyone in DC has not publicly called for the members of #SignalGate to resign...now.
Hegseth's paltry attempt to CNN to blame a person who actually had the moral fortitude to not reveal classified info but waited, is reason enough to get rid of him.
@molly0xfff
e-Way are urrently-Cay ean-Clay on Op-eck-Say
@kims @molly0xfff OPSECWay, dammit! Now you’ve blown it up!
@molly0xfff "Godspeed to our warriors"
Yech. Juvenile and fantasy laden.
@molly0xfff To quote the old Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch "Well it's certainly uncontaminated by OPSEC"
@molly0xfff Warriors, come out to play-aaaayyyyy....
@molly0xfff Maybe I do things differently, but whenever someone adds me to a group chat, the very first thing I do is look at who is in the group...
This dramatic 'holic turd.
Like he's blowing a kiss to his first ship full of Crusaders.
These christians and their addictions and failures and mental-inefficiency will murder us all.
@molly0xfff Textbook example of wishful thinking.
@molly0xfff
Clean, but did not do the very basic drill of "am I in the right room" and doing a roll call of who is present or should be.
Like basic stuff of, excuse me "JG", but can you please identify yourself.
Also pretty not-clean on doing this outside a secure location at all
@molly0xfff how does one get invited to those group chats then i wonder. is this an eppstein-island-special-invitation kind of thing?
@molly0xfff maybe we should have ppl in there, lol
It's like they are all just cosplaying their job titles.
@molly0xfff Good on that journalist for being professional, because if it was me, I couldn’t have resisted typing “No you’re not. :P”
@molly0xfff Its all just a game of pretend for those bois