• The_Caretaker@lemm.ee
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    Just being in a chat group on Signal where classified information is being shared and not reporting it is a crime if you have a security clearance. I used to have a security clearance. Classified information cannot be discussed outside of a secure compartmentalized information facility or SCIF for short. Classified information cannot be stored on your personal phone. You can’t take hand written notes about what was discussed inside the SCIF, outside of the SCIF. Digital communications of classified material can only take place on a secure government network; SIPR network for Secret information, JWICS and NSA Net for Top-Secret information. Those networks work exactly like the common internet everyone uses, which is called the the NIPR network, but only people with approved accounts and a security clearance can sign into SIPR, JWICS and NSA Net and the computers that can access the networks are inside a SCIF. Everyone who was in that Signal group and had a security clearance should be looking at a long prison sentence for not reporting the leak.

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    Reading these messages, I feel like I’m reading a bunch of immature boys cosplaying war commanders. What a fucking embarrassment!

  • The_Caretaker@lemm.ee
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    This is exactly what the US government tried to put Julian Assange in prison for. A journalist publishing classified information that was leaked to him.

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      They already stated it was not classified information. They want to go after the journalist but also need to cover their own asses. Can’t have it both ways

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        Stop underestimating the fascists. They’re already kidnapping people with masked agents in unmarked cars and holding them without charge, legal representation, or any kind of due process. They will “have it both ways” whenever they feel like it.

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          True that. I guess the question of whether it was classified information is kind of moot now that any semblance of the rule of law has been abandoned.

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    Original Atlantic article

    One question I do have is why is the Treasury Secretary there?

    I do find it a little funny that the delegates clearly were not delegates in some cases since they state the delegates under the cabinet members name but respond occasionally under their own name.

    I think Goldberg should release the phone numbers too since that is not classified info.

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    It’s ironic they slammed Goldberg when apparently he’s going to win the Pulitzer.