Oh, the rats are intimidated today! And boy are they skittish! Two of them are before Congress this morning, specifically a hyper defensive Tulsi Gabbard and a toadying John Ratcliffe, both trying to make something normal out of the utterly inexcusable and batshit scenario which was revealed yesterday when the editor of The Atlantic revealed to the world that he was part of an intelligence community chat group which revealed Top Secret war plans to him. Democrat Mark Warner is the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Commitee and he is raking a stone faced Gabbard and a skittish Ratcliffe over the coals. They have no proper answer and Gabbard posing like the Sphinx is not going to achieve one damn thing.
And Warner is right. If there is no classifed information which was shared, “share it with the committee!” But they can’t because it was already confirmed yesterday by Brian Hughes, the spokesman for the National Security Council, who confirmed the veracity of the Signal group. “This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain.” Yeah, that might be a good idea and Senator Warner has the same idea. (It’s been rumored that including a Fox News *reporter* on the chat was the idea but I can’t confirm that that’s how Jeffrey Goldberg got included.)
And I love the cameo appearance by Kash Patel at the end. He’s acting like a cat that just got drenched with a bucket of water, totally cringing and out of his depth.
I find it nothing short of hilarious that Tulsi Gabbard keeps droning on, “There was no classified information,” when Brian Hughes ADMITTED that the chain was real. And she’s got no out here. If the information was not classified, great. “Share it with the committee.”
But she can’t. One thing that Jeffrey Goldberg made clear is that he did not share all of the information that he actually was privy to. He mentioned that to Jen Psaki on MSNBC last night, that he had in fact been provided with a lot more information than what he shared. Evidently, he felt alright sharing about the Houthi attack because it had already happened. So it will be very interesting to see what else Goldberg knows and see how classified all that is.
These people are utterly incompetent. Every single one of them is arrogant and they play the arrogance card in lieu of substantive ability. This is pure Trump and that’s why he chooses them. Because they play his same stupid, vulgar, defensive, put down game.
But the facts are against these people and the law is against these people and generally speaking when you can’t win on the facts or the law, you.are.SCREWED.
It can’t happen to a more deserving crowd of utter imbeciles. And of course Trump is playing Sgt. Schulz, if you haven’t seen that debacle.
Trump’s blank expression tells you everything you need to know. Nobody is minding the store. There are a bunch of rank amateurs handling things in government that they have no business handling. And there’s a lot of them. If there were just one or two pieces of dead wood, the system could continue. But you get a situation where there is nothing but dead wood, the system is going to break down. And that’s what we have seen and only a little over 60 days into Trump 2.0. What is next? And I’m not even sure I want to know the answer to that.
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Well said, Ursula. And boy does the orange imbecile ever look washed out. How long before his entire administration collapses, him along with it? I am counting every second.
Ok, so the committee is exposing their misdeeds and idiotic attempt at cover up. What I’m interested in, is what will be done about it?
What will the administration do about it? NOTHING. Oh, they’ll flood the zone with a torrent of bullshit lies about it being fake news, or no big deal etc. but doing something of consequence like holding people accountable by firing them, or admitting they need to start doing things the proper, long established way that’ always worked? No way. NOTHING will be done.
Trump’s last statement in that clip,
“You’re telling me about it for the first time”
Shouldn’t he know about this? He IS the President. I’m not sure what the bigger problem is, the massive breach of security protocol, or Trump claiming he knows nothing about it.
Maybe he could be using the greatest intelligence gathering apparatus that has ever existed on earth, and the associated interpretation by thousands of highly skilled professionals trained to understand the ramifications and nuances of all this information. And they could present it in a way that even our most stupid as well as highly skilled elected officials can understand, and make the best informed decisions based on it?
Well, of course, he didn’t do that before.
Why start now?
Worse He’ll not just watch TV to be informed of what to do, he’ll watch Fox.
last time around he outright said he trusted putin more than his own intelligence services.
So who is playing Colonel Hogan in this scenario/reality? Joe Scarborough? Jon Berman? Everyone on earth NOT in this government?