Signal scandal? What scandal?

Democrats waxed indignant this week over the NSC Signal chat, which they claimed had put the lives of U.S. pilots at risk. And now they want the White House to turn over the full transcript of the discussion among the 18 cabinet members and intelligence officials so Congress can make it public.

You can mull over the obvious contradiction.

Either the chat was damaging to U.S. national security, in which case it should be kept private; or it wasn’t, in which case it doesn’t matter what Congress does. But if you’re a Democrat, you get to have it both ways.

Hypocrite of the week, Rep. Eric “Fang-Fang” Swalwell, called for Sec/Def Pete Hegseth to resign or be fired because he had “endangered” national security. That was a bit rich coming from a member of Congress who has admitted to sleeping with a Communist Chinese spy while he sat on the House intelligence committee.

Here are a few facts that have gone overlooked:

1. The chat was an “internal deliberation” discussing policy. This is an administrative term of art. Documents or meetings involving internal policy deliberations are “privileged,” meaning they are explicitly exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). They are also protected from Congressional review.
2. As D/CIA John Ratcliff told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, CIA employees — including those in the clandestine service — are authorized to use Signal for work related calls or chats.
3. This is because Signal uses end-to-end encryption. Every message from every user is individually encrypted to every other user. For a chat involving 18 users, that means 18×18 encryption keys (= 384). Adversaries can at best identify the phone numbers associated with a call, but not the contents.
4. In addition, we must assume that ALL the principals on the call had secure government-issue phones. These are significantly different from your normal smart phone. They are also regularly swept for malware.
5. We will know — perhaps by the time you read this — which lower-level staffer added the Atlantic Monthly Trump-hating journalist to the chat, and whether it was an accident or the deliberate act of an infiltrator seeking to do political harm to the administration. As of now, all signs point to Mike Waltz’s deputy, Alex Wong, whose spouse, Candice Chiu Wong, was an Obama-appointed Assistant US Attorney for the District of Columbia from 2015-2024. In that role, she handled prosecutions of many J6ers.

The screamers also went after JD Vance for his “anti-Europe” texts.

“3 percent of US trade runs through the Suez. 40 percent of European trade does. There is a real risk that the public doesn’t understand this or why it’s necessary,” Vance messaged the chat group.

Hegseth replied that the Europeans don’t have the military resources to defeat the threat from the Houthis to international shipping, only the US does.

And there’s the rub. The Europeans and the Uniparty of Corruption in Washington are equally terrified that the Trump administration will spoil the party, which they have been enjoying now for the past eighty years.

As Elon Musk told Bret Baier on Thursday night, those who are squealing the loudest about this administration’s efforts to eliminate waste and fraud are the fraudsters and grifters. And the Euros are the grifters in chief.

Bottom line: The strikes against the Houthis were a tremendous military success, and appear to have gotten Iran’s attention. Shortly afterwards, IRGC General Esmail Qaani, commander of the Qods Force, issued “firm instructions” to Iranian proxy militias in Iraq to halt all armed attacks against US targets, for fear of US retaliation.

I guess it dawned on him that there is a US drone circling overhead with his name on it, just waiting for him to misbehave.

I discuss this as well as the recent crackdown by Erdogan in Turkey, Erdogan’s latest talks with Putin, and China’s dangerous (and illegal) militarization of space, in this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.

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Yours in freedom.

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