President Shitshow’s First 100 Days; Day 64…

March 26, 2025 1:01 pm EDT Tiff Editorial (Open Thread) 1

It’s Wednesday…

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

Wednesday, March 26 2025
9:00 AM
In-Town Pool Call Time
In-Town Pool
1:00 PM
Press Briefing by the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 
On Camera
3:00 PM
The President participates in a Women’s History Month event
East Room 
Pre-Credentialed Media

Houthi PC small group…

SignalGate has gotten a new update.

But before we get to the update, let’s see where things stood yesterday a day after the story first broke.

National Security Advisor Michael Waltz said it wasn’t a “staffer” that added Editor-in-Chief to the Signal chat.

Laura Ingraham: So a staffer did not put his contact information–

Waltz: Of course not. No, no, no, no–

Laura Ingraham: How did it end up on–

That’s how the clip starts, it’s hard to transcribe when they talk over each other.

Later in the clip he says “I take responsibility, I built–I built the group.”

Meanwhile back at the farm…

President Shitshow said it was a low level staffer that included the journalist into the group Signal chat.

Boss is lying…

Yesterday, two members in the Signal chat, who had been previously scheduled to testify before the Senate Intel Committee tried to distance themselves from the chat group.

Aaron Rupar put a super-cut together of their responses.

This morning, cause I forgot how shit works, thanks President Shitshow!

Anyhoo, this morning the same assholes above were attending another Committee hearing. This time in the House, again, these meetings were scheduled ahead of time as the yearly “global threat assessments”.

DNI Gabbard aka Russian Asset says she didn’t lie yesterday during her testimony…

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegshit denied that anything of importance at all was shared via Signal.

He doesn’t really answer the question about whether or not he “declassified” the information shared in the Signal chat. He again says “nobody is texting war plans”…

Well, given how the admin and the players involved were attempting to spin the story as another “liberal hoax” from a “trump hating” lying dirty journalist, that journalist, shared more information regarding the Signal chat.

Shane Harris contributed to today’s article as well as Monday’s article.

The article; Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal (03/26/2025):

I will share part of their explainer as to why they are sharing more messages today;

These statements presented us with a dilemma. In The Atlantic’s initial story about the Signal chat—the “Houthi PC small group,” as it was named by Waltz—we withheld specific information related to weapons and to the timing of attacks that we found in certain texts. As a general rule, we do not publish information about military operations if that information could possibly jeopardize the lives of U.S. personnel. That is why we chose to characterize the nature of the information being shared, not specific details about the attacks.

The statements by Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, and Trump—combined with the assertions made by numerous administration officials that we are lying about the content of the Signal texts—have led us to believe that people should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions. There is a clear public interest in disclosing the sort of information that Trump advisers included in nonsecure communications channels, especially because senior administration figures are attempting to downplay the significance of the messages that were shared.

[snip]

Yesterday, we asked officials across the Trump administration if they objected to us publishing the full texts. In emails to the Central Intelligence Agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, and the White House, we wrote, in part: “In light of statements today from multiple administration officials, including before the Senate Intelligence Committee, that the information in the Signal chain about the Houthi strike is not classified, and that it does not contain ‘war plans,’ The Atlantic is considering publishing the entirety of the Signal chain.”

We sent our first request for comment and feedback to national-security officials shortly after noon, and followed up in the evening after most failed to answer.

Late yesterday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt emailed a response: “As we have repeatedly stated, there was no classified information transmitted in the group chat. However, as the CIA Director and National Security Advisor have both expressed today, that does not mean we encourage the release of the conversation. This was intended to be a an [sic] internal and private deliberation amongst high-level senior staff and sensitive information was discussed. So for those reason [sic] — yes, we object to the release.” (The Leavitt statement did not address which elements of the texts the White House considered sensitive, or how, more than a week after the initial air strikes, their publication could have bearing on national security.)

A CIA spokesperson asked us to withhold the name of John Ratcliffe’s chief of staff, which Ratcliffe had shared in the Signal chain, because CIA intelligence officers are traditionally not publicly identified. Ratcliffe had testified earlier yesterday that the officer is not undercover and said it was “completely appropriate” to share their name in the Signal conversation. We will continue to withhold the name of the officer. Otherwise, the messages are unredacted.

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal (03/26/2025):

Goldberg/Harris shared text to explain the messages, I’m opting to just share the text chain images.

Reminder: Goldberg was sent a connection request on Signal by “Michael Waltz on 03/11/2025.

On March 13th, 2025, he was added to the Houthi PC small group.

It says in the finer print; Michael Waltz added you to the group.
Disappearing message time was set to 1 week.

MAR =’s Marco Antino Rubio.

The next image contains the last text sent on the 13th of March with the start of the messages on March 14th, 2025.

Con’t from 03/14/2025.

This next image ends with Hegshit’s message and starts with Michael Waltz.

The next image shows S M was added; they believe that’s Stephen “I am a Nazi” Miller.

March 15th, 31 minutes before the strike happens:

Fine print there reads “Michael Waltz set disappearing message time to 4 weeks”.

The end of the images shared by Goldberg:

The admin like they tend to do, is trying to downplay that there was indeed “classified” information sent via Signal. Now, I’m not well versed in how classification work, but I’m pretty sure the weapons and time of the strike information is at the very least Secret information if not “Top Secret” information.

First, what’s very clear, is these people aren’t serious about their jobs and responsibilities.

Second here is what Goldberg wrote on Monday regarding the CIA person:

  • One minute later, a person identified only as “MAR”—the secretary of state is Marco Antonio Rubio—wrote, “Mike Needham for State,” apparently designating the current counselor of the State Department as his representative. At that same moment, a Signal user identified as “JD Vance” wrote, “Andy baker for VP.” One minute after that, “TG” (presumably Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, or someone masquerading as her) wrote, “Joe Kent for DNI.” Nine minutes later, “Scott B”—apparently Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, or someone spoofing his identity, wrote, “Dan Katz for Treasury.” At 4:53 p.m., a user called “Pete Hegseth” wrote, “Dan Caldwell for DoD.” And at 6:34 p.m., “Brian” wrote “Brian McCormack for NSC.” One more person responded: “John Ratcliffe” wrote at 5:24 p.m. with the name of a CIA official to be included in the group. I am not publishing that name, because that person is an active intelligence officer.

Here is what Goldberg wrote today:

  • A CIA spokesperson asked us to withhold the name of John Ratcliffe’s chief of staff, which Ratcliffe had shared in the Signal chain, because CIA intelligence officers are traditionally not publicly identified. Ratcliffe had testified earlier yesterday that the officer is not undercover and said it was “completely appropriate” to share their name in the Signal conversation. We will continue to withhold the name of the officer. Otherwise, the messages are unredacted.

That the CIA has requested not be named.

For fucks sake, they aren’t capable of reading the shit that’s published about them. I mean they don’t have a staffer that reads the words? There aren’t many words, this isn’t War and Peace, JFC. Read the source material if you can’t read it, maybe you shouldn’t be Vice President!

I will add that if an article is paywalled, few of us can read it, but The Atlantic article was gifted to us which means the paywall has been removed.

Shortly after today’s article was posted, White House press dummy also attempted to gaslight us…

This happened during the House hearing.

It’s not the best video quality, but big shout out to Rep. Crows staff for getting those images and information published in large scale on short notice.

If nothing derails me tomorrow, like say Waltz being tossed out of the admin in an attempt to stop the cycle of bad news for President Shitshow, I hope to cover some EO’s that have been published recently.

This is an open thread

PS.

I forgot to add the press briefing YouTube at the top of the article.

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