BOMBSHELL: Trump texting fiasco's most shocking revelation drops during Senate hearing

[Dulcinea]

(NJ.com) -snip- In a timely congressional hearing on Tuesday — roughly 24 hours after The Atlantic magazine revealed that Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Director of Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and others exposed national security secrets and war plans to an American journalist, not to mention U.S. enemies —it was uncovered that Witkoff was in Moscow during the chat.

FBI Director Kash Patel, Ratcliffe and Gabbard were hammered by Democrats in a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. They face another round of attacks on Wednesday when they appear before the House Intelligence Committee.

“Did you know that the president’s Middle East adviser was in Moscow on this thread while you were as director of the CIA participating in this thread?” Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado asked Ratcliffe. “Were you aware of that? Are you aware of that today?”

“I’m not aware of that today,” Ratcliffe responded.

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/03/trump-texting-fiasco-bombshell-drops-during-congressional-hearing.html

[gab13by13]

1. Yeah they hammered them

but I listened to what Denver Riggelman said yesterday. Riggelman was a military intelligence officer who understands cybersecurity.

Riggelman said that Democratic Senators should have gotten their questions from cybersecurity experts, he said that Democrats didn't ask the right questions.

[TheRickles]

2. Do you have a link to what he said? That'd be interesting. Thanks.

[orangecrush]

3. Was waiting

For that shoe to drop.

[Phoenix61]

4. ""They face another round of attacks..""

Um, no. They face questions about their attack on our national security.

[diverdownjt]

7. thx phoenix61...

that's what i was gonna say.

[Botany]

8. Yup they caused the problems

BTW it was shocking to see that Hog's Breath
really believes that half baked Russian backed propaganda gibberish that they spew on Fox. I have kinda thought they would let their guard down and stop with the charade of lies

Danes are good people. What is the matter with those idiots?

[MLWR]

5. They all think they have to play dumb to get away with their negligence and incompetence.

The thing is they don't have to "play" at it at all.

[Turbineguy]

6. They don't understand the forces they control.

That's the definition of a dangerous idiot.

[NJCher]

9. Krassenstein?

A liberal blogger on Twitter/X posted yesterday that he was in the Kremlin.

I wanted to post it here, but I declined to do so because how do we know what “the Kremlin” refers to.

Is it Putin‘s office? Is it the complex, the general vicinity?

It’s bad either way.

Subject heading is the name of the blogger, IIRC.

[sboatcar]

11. and gee, connecting to the kremlin wifi definitely isn't going to end with you having some kind of malware on your phone

Like the Russians had him clocked from the moment he landed and I'm sure they were capturing all the data sent and received from his phone. When he joined that chat, the encryption key had to be sent, and if they had that, then they could decrypt every single message from that chat.
And everyone brushing it off as no biggie, just wow

[IbogaProject]

10. I believe the military got a contract with Wickr

Similar platform that was best in security and became enterprise only. Our Dod switched to it early in the Ukraine conflict. It has enterprise controls on the contacts list and retention. But even that is only secure as the phone itself. Hegseth was just a lower level officer in some National Guard unit so he may have never heard of Wickr, much less any of T47's National Insecurity Clowncar.

The United States Air Force is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

“Using Wickr RAM in Cloud One allows our personnel and teams to collaborate securely at the tactical edge and higher; in-garrison and deployed. Its ability to run on many different platforms and its feature set enables us to reduce security risks and operate successfully. Wickr RAM fills distinct secure mobility collaboration gaps to meet DoD compliance mandates at scale. Based on its commercial and government hosting, scalability, and federation capabilities, it is the only compliant solution that enables secure foreign partner, other government agency, and non-government agency secure collaboration for rapid response operations and ad-hoc activities. This is especially key to enable humanitarian efforts, crisis response, and other operations. Its bot system also enables automation for automatic data collection and communications.”

Todd Weiser, Chief Technology Officer – U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command

https://wickr.com/secure-communication-for-the-military/

I researched these type of apps as a consultant. Wickr was the most secure but based on usernames and password, which users dislike. Signal, Whatsapp and Telegram can use phone contacts and don't really have log ins and are much more popular.