Where is the accountability from the public? Every redneck 100 mi from me was screaming about her damn emails. They probably didn't even understand why they were outraged, but the man on the FoX nEwS was angry about it so I am too. They say that the don't trust the government for legitimate topics like vaccines, and taxes and then when the government gives you a huge reason to actually be concerned, it gets ignored
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The hypocrisy knows no bounds...
It's almost like that party has no values and sees everything only through the lens of political leverage.
I'm not sure that pointing out the hypocrisy is even useful. I'm nearing 40 and "but it's okay when we do it" has always been a core tenant of conservatism. They don't give a shit that they're hypocrites, they don't care, I've boxed them in on it before and it always just boils down to "it's okay for us because I said so". I think it's maybe more useful to move past the identification of hypocrisy and start engaging in conversations about accountability. That is, conversations about hypocrisy without conversations about what kind of accountability you'd like to see are moot. So, let's move past "can you believe this shit? But her emails? Do you feel like the hypocrites you are yet?" to "your boy did something fucking stupid. I don't care about your excuses, fire him."
That's true! We just assume that by pointing out the naughty behavior Someone will Do Something because honest people expect honest reactions.
Dishonest people cannot have honest reactions, their words mean nothing, they respond only to personal suffering and nothing else.
It’s almost as if they never actually cared about the server but rather were just using it to score points. Not at all like, you know, absolutely everything else.
Summary:
- a journalist was invited
- half an hour before the first takeoff, the takeoff times of planes, drones and cruise missiles were shared
- it was mentioned that an individual terrorist is on sight and his location known
Sadly, none of them will be jailed, like a lay person would be for disclosing military secrets.
However, I would advocate for punishing them with having a mandatory nanny appointed to oversee them for 4 years.
According to Sun Tzus art of war, someone who is that stupid should be put to death.
Also the disappearing texts are a concern. There's not much mention of that. And now you have to wonder, how many other conversations have been held there, and with who?
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lock them up!
It’s always Opposite Day with these clowns GOP. The blame finger is always pointing at them.
Lock him up!
Nothing on Hillary Clinton's server was classified at the time it was put on the server. Some items were subsequently reclassified to the lowest level above Unclassified.
So there's really no comparison between the two situations. It stinks of bothsidesism for the journalist to even mention it. A better contrast is between screeching outrage at nothing, versus the current sneering complacency about a major security fuck-up, though I'm sure it pales with what Trump is sharing with Russia and what he's waving around in front of his cronies to brag about what he knows.
Nothing on Hillary Clinton's server was classified at the time it was put on the server
Some items were subsequently reclassified to the lowest level above Unclassified.
Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.
So there's really no comparison between the two situations.
I agree. I just wanted to correct the record and to highlight that a normal government employee would have been fired for what Hillary did.
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And here several days later they are still trying to gaslight everyone into believing that it never happened.
Lock. Them. Up.
Wasn't the server an actual private server she had setup whereas this is a corporate app that is supposedly private if they are not lying and accessing the data. I mean this is way wore unless they put up a server to run the chat software.
It doesn’t matter what kind of server you’re using. Highly classified information has rules and regulations. Some stuff can only be talked about in certain buildings because the buildings were built to block listening devices.
This is a major fuck up that could have gotten American soldiers killed. Everyone involved should be in prison.
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Also, while using the app, there is zero accountability for who told who to do what within the government. FOIA is useless for any conversation happening within that app, self hosted or not.
Yep, OPSEC is definitely a major issue here. But the other problem is like you mention, zero accountability. Additionally, if they delete the chat, there is no way to reobtain the data for historical archive purposes, which is another law violation.
Conservative hypocrisy knows no bounds. They will only be outraged at what their talking heads tell them to be outraged at.
The party of double standards, everyone.
If they didn't have double standards they'd have no standards at all.
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The takeaway is that Signal is a bloody good app to use.
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