Lara Loomer is now making Foreign policy staffing decisions

This underrated gem is one of the most magnificent posts in recent THFSG history.

It kind of defies comment.

What's next, 70 million people convincing each other its OK to attack the Capitol, or try to overturn an election? Utterly fail in response to a pandemic, tell people the answer is malaria drugs and putting UV up your ass ....... but then finding an escape goat to blame it all on?

Folks, posts like the one quoted are why we THFSG.

 

Prepare to be shocked.

Sorry, no grand conspiracy, just rank incompetence. Who could have possibly guessed that the Trump people would be this incompetent?

Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chat

 

Nope.

 

MD this is great info so I'm going to signal boost --

Waltz did not ultimately call Goldberg, the people said, but in an extraordinary twist, inadvertently ended up saving Goldberg’s number in his iPhone – under the contact card for Hughes, now the spokesperson for the national security council.

A day after that Goldberg story was published, on 22 October, Waltz appeared on CNN to defend Trump. “Don’t take it from me, take it from the 13 Abbey Gate Gold Star families, some of whom stood on a stage in front of a 30,000 person crowd and said how he helped them heal,” Waltz said.

According to the White House, the number was erroneously saved during a “contact suggestion update” by Waltz’s iPhone, which one person described as the function where an iPhone algorithm adds a previously unknown number to an existing contact that it detects may be related.

The mistake went unnoticed until last month when Waltz sought to add Hughes to the Signal group chat – but ended up adding Goldberg’s number to the 13 March message chain named “Houthi PC small group”, where several top US officials discussed plans for strikes against the Houthis.

 

well consider yourself shocked.

it was a stupid error on an app that shouldn't be used for such information to begin with

 

One impact of Trump's decision to fire Gen. Haugh based on Loony Laura's request.
Trump Weakens U.S. Cyberdefenses at a Moment of Rising Danger
When President Trump abruptly fired the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command on Thursday, it was the latest in a series of moves that have torn away at the country’s cyberdefenses just as they are confronting the most sophisticated and sustained attacks in the nation’s history.

The commander, General Timothy D. Haugh, had sat atop the enormous infrastructure of American cyberdefenses until his removal, apparently under pressure from the far-right Trump loyalist Laura Loomer. He had been among the American officials most deeply involved in pushing back on Russia, dating to his work countering Moscow’s interference in the 2016 election.

His dismissal came after weeks in which the Trump administration swept away nearly all of the government’s election-related cyberdefenses beyond the secure N.S.A. command centers at Fort Meade, Md. At the same time, the administration has shrunk much of the nation’s complex early-warning system for cyberattacks, a web through which tech firms work with the F.B.I. and intelligence agencies to protect the power grid, pipelines and telecommunications networks.

Cybersecurity experts, election officials and lawmakers — mostly Democrats but a few Republicans — have begun to raise alarms that the United States is knocking down a system that, while still full of holes, has taken a decade to build. It has pushed out some of its most experienced cyberdefenders and fired younger talent brought in to design defenses against a wave of ransomware, Chinese intrusions and vulnerabilities created by artificial intelligence.

 

As long as you "own the dems" right? Security for our infrastructure, power grids, etc ? Nahhh. Let the loonie toon tell the loonie toon in charge who to fire. Putin is laughing his ass off.

 

So you think doing incalculable damage to national security is worth it if triggers the Dems?