Judge targeted by Trump is assigned to Signalgate lawsuit

[Absentglare]

Hey, I'm with you. Cut congress out of the equation entirely, especially when the majority in the House and the Senate are the same as the White House. In such a case the ONLY branch of government we can rely on is the Judicial and they should have absolute, unfettered power. The LAST thing we need in a situation like this is a federal government that serves the people. We need a federal government that serves the government!

Okay now you’re admitting that congressional republicans are violating their oaths and acting as servants of the executive branch.

You are arguing in favor of a strong judicial response.

 

[JANFU]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/trump-canada-yukon-1.3235254

The bulk of the cash flow came from the sale of liquor and sex," Blair wrote. She cited newspaper ads referring obliquely to prostitution — mentioning private suites for ladies, and scales in the rooms so patrons could weigh gold if they preferred to pay for services that way

 

[Absentglare]

The lawsuit brought by left leaning watchdog group, American Oversight:

The Hill

Flashback to 2017, when
@TheAtlantic
called Signal “the gold standard of encrypted messaging” — and admitted it was used by Obama and Hillary Clinton staffers.

Yeah yeah what a load of stupid bullshit.

Folks, all those same people could very well use notepad on a public library computer but that doesn’t mean anyone can just start dumping top secret intel there.

 

[jaypatriot]

This is good. Boasberg can now find all parties guilty and remove the entire Trump administration. This is the way the Constitution is supposed to work! If a district judge isn't allowed to dissolve the sitting administration then we simply don't have a democracy.

Terrific sarcasm. Something I can relate to.
District Judges want to judge the entire country if they're allowed to get away with it.

 

[Absentglare]

I have complete confidence that they will find out who added an anti-Trump political hack to the signal chat. They'll also find out that it was no accident that somebody like him was included.

Oh so the problem isn’t all the crimes they committed, the only problem is the witness told us about it.

 

[CaughtInThe]

 

[Absentglare]

Terrific sarcasm. Something I can relate to.
District Judges want to judge the entire country if they're allowed to get away with it.

Yeah, the ministry of truth is telling the cult that judges are bad. So much for law and order. But we knew that already when MAGA broke into congress and smeared shit on the walls.

 

[The AntiDonald]

Because of the ability to bypass government record keeping, IMO, this app and any other that has the capability of erasing massages should be banned for all government uses. Let's face it, the real motive here for using this app was twofold. Laziness and secrecy from the American people.

 

[Objective Voice]

I've read the OP article, as well as, the linked article herein that outlines why AG Bondi (and Sec. of State, Rubio) refuse to turn over flight data to the court by invoking "state secrets" privilege (bka, "The Totten doctrine"). The way I see it is this:

If you have nothing to hide, why invoke a law that mandates secrecy?

Judge Boasberg is asking about some basic stuff:

• What time(s) did the fligh(t)s depart from the United States?
• When did the flight(s) leave U.S. airspace?
• When did the flight(s) landed in their designated countries?
• When were the immigrants being deported subject to the Alien Enemies Act (i.e., the day they were apprehended or the day the flight took off)?
• How many passengers on the flights were subject to the Alien Enemies Act?

Five basic questions that will not divulge the aircraft's flight path nor that of future mass deportation flight as AG Bondi claims:

[SIC]...“confirming the exact time the flights departed, or their particular locations at some other time, would facilitate efforts to track those flights and future flights.”

I find the above to be a ridiculous notion. After all, the court is seeking information after-the-fact. Moreover, it's not as if the court is asking for the designation of the aircraft's tail number, what type of aircraft was used, i.e., commercial or military, or what airport the flight(s) took off from. It's just general information the court seeks. To get to the flight disclosure information AG Bondi alleges to be of such grave concern, one would have to first attain the type of information I've outlined herein to make such as educated assessment.

Translation: The Trump Administration is widening a scandal of its own making.

 

[JANFU]

The lawsuit brought by left leaning watchdog group, American Oversight:

Clear that you belive Courts are only for the OJ Cult

 

[ColdHardTruth]

Hey, I'm with you. Cut congress out of the equation entirely, especially when the majority in the House and the Senate are the same as the White House. In such a case the ONLY branch of government we can rely on is the Judicial and they should have absolute, unfettered power. The LAST thing we need in a situation like this is a federal government that serves the people. We need a federal government that serves the government!

Oh, stop.

Defending Trump is not acceptable.

He broke the law.

Accept it and move on.

 

[eohrnberger]

Here's an idea...
There's no reason someone like Goldberg would have been invited to a secret meeting.

Even you know that.

Given that the NSA issued a warning of Signal group chat invite links from suspicious sources.
(https://debatepolitics.com/threads/mike-waltz-claims-‘full-responsibility’-for-signal-chat-group-leaked-to-journalist.565238/post-1081292098)

The unclassified but for-official-use-only documents provided to CBS News by a senior U.S. intelligence official are entitled "Signal Vulnerability"​

. . .​

Signal responded to the bulletin in a social media post Tuesday, saying the NSA's "memo used the term 'vulnerability' in relation to Signal-but it had nothing to do with Signal's core tech. It was warning against phishing scams targeting Signal users."​

"Phishing isn't new, and it's not a flaw in our encryption or any of Signal's underlying technology," the company said. "Phishing attacks are a constant threat for popular apps and websites."​

NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chat

The National Security Agency sent a bulletin in February warning of Russian hackers trying to access encrypted conversations on Signal.

www.cbsnews.com

"It" (the NSA document) "was warning against phishing scams targeting Signal users.".
The NSA guidance on Signal (follow documents provided to CBS News link) is, in fact best summarized by, 'Don't go following suspicious QR codes or links from suspicious sources inviting the user to a group chat, and you won't compromise your Signal security.'

Further, the NSA guidance on Signal, as provided in post #254 and elaborated on in post #270 doesn't even say Signal is prohibited from use.
What it does say:

​

Signal the application is secure.

Now matter how secure, it can't prevent a user from falling prey to social engineering and following those suspicious QR codes or links from suspicious sources which link another device as it were the user's own device. That's beyond the app.

Anyway, why does it seem like someone forwarded the group chat invite to the wrong person?
Or maybe someone else forwarded the invite on behalf of the group?

This is precisely the type of social engineering exploit which the NSA curiously, and rather suspiciously, warned about just last month.

 

[Lutherf]

Your argument is that, when someone breaks the law, our judges should not be able to do anything about it.

This is a bad argument, it’d make a terrible joke because of how stupid it is.

At the absolute worst the "crime" in this case would be a a violation of some administrative requirement to keep "records". We have, roughly, shitloads of violations of keeping records all through congress, all through the executive branch and, likely, all through the judicial branch every day. Hilary and her BleachBit? The J6 committee and destruction of records? The Secret Service and wiped cell phones? There are myriad cases FAR more substantive than this incident and it's not even really clear that using Signal to keep everyone up to speed on what's going on is a violation of anything since the app has been used for more than a decade.

 

[JANFU]

I have complete confidence that they will find out who added an anti-Trump political hack to the signal chat. They'll also find out that it was no accident that somebody like him was included.

Must be the OJC album
Appropriate

 

[Gimmesometruth]

Trump tries to take a shit. Is hit with a TRO

I agree, the AEA use was shit.

 

[eohrnberger]

At the absolute worst the "crime" in this case would be a a violation of some administrative requirement to keep "records". We have, roughly, shitloads of violations of keeping records all through congress, all through the executive branch and, likely, all through the judicial branch every day. Hilary and her BleachBit? The J6 committee and destruction of records? The Secret Service and wiped cell phones? There are myriad cases FAR more substantive than this incident and it's not even really clear that using Signal to keep everyone up to speed on what's going on is a violation of anything since the app has been used for more than a decade.

Agreed.
It's the typical left over reaction and overplaying their cards, and deploying their compliant and complicit MSM propagandists to drown out any politically inconvenient facts.

Only problem is that they've gone to that well so often, its losing its effect, at least on ever larger growing parts of the populace.

 

[Absentglare]

At the absolute worst the "crime" in this case would be a a violation of some administrative requirement to keep "records".

No, it isn’t. That was the basis for your complaint about Hillary’s email server. That’s not the only complaint here.

You’re not allowed to broadcast our military operations, even if the information, itself, is not classified. They violated the Espionage Act.

We have, roughly, shitloads of violations of keeping records all through congress, all through the executive branch and, likely, all through the judicial branch every day. Hilary and her BleachBit? The J6 committee and destruction of records? The Secret Service and wiped cell phones? There are myriad cases FAR more substantive than this incident and it's not even really clear that using Signal to keep everyone up to speed on what's going on is a violation of anything since the app has been used for more than a decade.

They discussed military strikes, with specific details, before they happened. They jeopardized the entire operation. Now they’re lying about it under oath.

If republicans had any decency, they wouldn’t be so fighting the fair dispensation of justice.

 

[Gimmesometruth]

There are myriad cases FAR more substantive than this incident

Then go bring a suit, file them.

What a weak whutabout.

to drown out any politically inconvenient facts

"There are other violations yer not looking at!"

 

[Lutherf]

No, it isn’t. That was the basis for your complaint about Hillary’s email server. That’s not the only complaint here.

You’re not allowed to broadcast our military operations, even if the information, itself, is not classified. They violated the Espionage Act.

They discussed military strikes, with specific details, before they happened. They jeopardized the entire operation. Now they’re lying about it under oath.

If republicans had any decency, they wouldn’t be so fighting the fair dispensation of justice.

Oh, the espionage act, swell. That sounds like treason. Maybe Boasberg should just order everyone lined up and shot.

The mountains you people make out of mole hills is impressive....like Himalaya level impressive.

 

[Absentglare]

Oh, the espionage act, swell. That sounds like treason. Maybe Boasberg should just order everyone lined up and shot.

The mountains you people make out of mole hills is impressive....like Himalaya level impressive.

So denial is all you got. Sad.


If anyone else had done this, they’d be in prison already.

 

[Hatuey]

It bet it was those damn Duke boys and their cousin Daisy.

 

[911Sparky]

What is the alternative to Signal?

A face to face meeting in a secure part of the Pentagon?

 

[911Sparky]

Oh, I dunno. Maybe a special secure room where these types of conversations can take place?

Maybe the trump administration could invent something like that, they could call it a SCIF or something. /s

 

[ColdHardTruth]

What is the alternative to Signal?

That type of information should not be discussed electronically.

 

[NWRatCon]

Ruh Ro!

I can hear the fireworks from here, stay tuned…….

I Laughed So Hard.