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Noreen Wessendorf's avatar

This latest debacle was more than upsetting. The daily dismantling of our federal government is heartbreaking but this breach is personal. My father was in the navy during World War II. My two brothers fought in Viet Nam. All three have passed away. Current members of the military put their lives on the line every day for our freedom. To have these inexperienced yahoos leading our country and endangering the lives of our service men and women is mind blowing. No documentation. No accountability. No spine. And these are the role models for the next generation. We must stop this madness. Thank you, Sabrina, and all journalists, for your courage and perseverance in continuing to educate and inform the public.

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Vincent's avatar

There is nothing encrypted about communications on Signal. It's similar to other such group chat enabled apps, such as Telegram or WhatsApp. The difference is the "set to delete" feature which, as you point out, is consistent with the goal of Project 2025 of hiding all potentially damaging information. Two things: one, no doubt the Chinese and Russian intelligence agencies already have the phone numbers of all involved in the call and, at a minimum, they can tell when all these phones are buzzing back and forth "signalling" that something big is going on. Moreover, due to lack of encryption, they may have hacked into the digital record of the calls if not the calls themselves. Second, add to this farce the rogue DOGE activity, and Trump's laissez-faire attitude to it all, and this is yet one more instance that demonstrates the Trump administration's adherence not to the Constitution and all applicable laws, but rather to Project 2025 dictates. There will be repercussions of this intelligence failure that will play out in yet unknown ways to the detriment of our military prerogatives.

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Douglas Macfie's avatar

Miss Haake while all you write is true, King Trump does not care, and there is the problem, the majority of Americans do not understand this, he does not care if people die, he does not care if lives are at stake, he does not care about any hardships he might cause the American people he does not care about anything except being King and doing what he wants there are very few ways to stop a person like this , that is why he is surrounded by people ignorant of most of the laws of the land the only section of the Constitution they know is the right to bear arms and bear arms against any one rising up against King Trump

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Chris Perez's avatar

The rule of law is the one thing the criminal Trump doesn't respect and will find ways to destroy it anyway he can. America was warned about his fitness to govern, and here we are witnessing the precious Constitution being torn page by page. This administration reveals criminal acts every day, and the Democratic leadership is sitting on its hands. To make matters worse, the people we are depending on to resist are deaf, dumb, and blind. There is no urgency to stop Trump's madness. It is a reality that Trump and his cohorts are taking advantage of to get away with "murder." Sabrina has her eyes on the prize, but the response only comes from people who understand and care. At least these comments are her support as she attempts to educate the masses in understanding that the deaf, dumb, and blind will be the first to go when the storm troopers slam down their doors. The Resistance must prevail to save our way of life!

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Scott K.'s avatar

You’ve nailed it. I will share this, as you’ve summed everything up quite succinctly and concisely. The original Nazis were so proud of their work that they documented it all for posterity, and it’s subsequently been studied in the decades since their crimes against humanity. Their descendants aren’t making those “mistakes”, which means they know they’re on the wrong side of history and opposed to what this country used to stand for. As such, they fully intend to evade accountability. So far, it’s working.

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Hal Brown's avatar

There are so many chilling ways that the Trumpers are like the Nazis. You have come up with one way they aren't like the Nazis.

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Scott K.'s avatar

This was posted over at Rawstory on Wednesday by another commenter:

Unless your INTENTION is for the Russians to receive real time military information.

Which it OBVIOUSLY was.

See what you get when you DELIBERATELY and stubbornly insist on keeping Russia's kompromat of

TRUMP as part of your interpretation of reality? For that past decade, every time these bozos have done something, the entire media landscape throws its hands up and declares it make no sense.

When EVERY SINGLE TIME... TRUMP is a Russian Asset is the key that explains EVERYTHING. EVERY LAST CONUNDRUM.

The media has obviously been paid, STRONG ARMED OR OTHERWISE FORCED NOT to consider it publicly...EVER.

But that doesn't mean we can't keep it in the forefront of our minds.

It is the key to all the chaos.

IT IS THE ANSWER TO WHY

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Gordon Shumway's avatar

truly, nothing else makes any sense, and the "legacy" news folk need to develop a spine and really dig down into this before it's too late......

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Eric Chaffee's avatar

"Erasing the past" is beyond stooopid. It's Orwellian. " Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (attributed variously to Edmund Burke, George Santayana, or Winston Churchill). It makes it impossible to learn from mistakes. It is a tool of dictators. (Yeah Hillary did it too.) CONGRESS IS TO BLAME for sitting on their hands. COWARDS!. ~eric. MeridaGOround.com

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Gordon Shumway's avatar

don't forget Hegel, who said we learn from the past that we don't learn from the past!

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Eric Chaffee's avatar

¿But then, have we learned?

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past," ~George Orwell, 1984.

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Gordon Shumway's avatar

we haven't learned and won't. Aldous Huxley wrote to Orwell that "... the nightmare of 1984 is destined to modulate into the nightmare of a world having more resemblances to that which I imagined in Brave New World. The change will be brought about as a result of a felt need for increased efficiency." Kind of DOGEy?

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Hal Brown's avatar

Learning today about Hegseth taking his wife, a former Fox New producer, to at least two meetings where sensitive material was discussed I have to wonder if the term Signalgate needs to be replaced with Stupidgate. I have an awful feeling that a year from now we'll look back at things like this with a kind of grim nostalgia as we watch helplessly as Trump puts the final touches on his ruthless dictatorship. My own Substack today (click my name) was darker than anything in Haake Take and even darker than what Michael Cohen published yesterday, "Spheres of Influence or Imperial Delusion? This is not hyperbole. Trump doesn’t just admire dictators; he envies them. He views alliances as weakness and diplomacy as a con" it is worth reading here https://www.meidasplus.com/p/spheres-of-influence-or-imperial

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Gordon Shumway's avatar

great piece Sabrina. If the Supreme Court doesn't finally do the right thing, our country is doomed.....

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Eric Chaffee's avatar

Marshal law coming April 20? BEWARE! The deepstate wants to know who’s watching this video. So I used my Proton vpn to ramp thru Switzerland (CH) to bypass the snoopers.

The podcaster, see Kyle Kulinski’s Wikipedia page detailing a radically admirable backstory. No doubt he has a target on his chest and back. (Gotta admire patriots like this.) Who knew that the name “Elon” comes from a nazi sci-fi story?

His podcast regarding the risk of marshal law arriving on April 20, or shortly thereafter, is compelling. Note: his speech pattern is so fast that you need to hold on tight — but his speech and reasoning are both extremely clear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xebVcfN5C6s

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Gordon Shumway's avatar

thx Eric - though I'm almost sorry I viewed it. (Read once that the name Elon comes from a novel by Wernher von Braun, the great Nazi rocket man.)

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MaryFaith's avatar

Your insight hits the nail on the head - once again. Corrupt and ignorant doesn't even begin to describe the knuckleheads at the helm.

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Dianna McCullough's avatar

Let us count the ways, in 3 months, that Trump and his pack have created disasters, but this last one from Hegseth and our National Security are a disgrace and a doozy! And the disclosure that Trump administration (if you can call them that) is destroying what needs to be public records is another destructive and illegal activity to hide the…truth, a word Trump doesn’t have in his vocabulary. If Americans need to know anymore about this regime’s direction look at Project 2025, listen closer to the Trump lies and pay serious attention to where we really are!

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Hal Brown's avatar

I was beginning to worry about you having not seen a Substack since March 22nd. These are the times Trump's Gestapo have wrought.

The best thing about Signalgate, which went from being called a "gate" in only three articles to it being called that everywhere in 12 hours, is that it has exposed what I said in my Substack: it that It appears that our military and intelligence agencies are being run by Col. Klink and Sgt. Shutlz (I used a photo of them of course).

You didn't mention that two of the people in on the group chat were in Russia while it was going on. Why not just hand secrets to Putin on a platinum platter? The spymasters in Russia and China, and our other adversaries, must be pissed off that this was been revealed thanks to it being shared with Jeffery Goldberg (who deserves a Pulitzer for breaking news). I have little doubt that they have been monitoring our secret Signal chats for months. Now they will have to work harder to get our secrets unless they have there own version of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings ("The Americans") working in top intelligence and military jobs.

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Sharon Evans's avatar

needs to be much repeated and emphasized:

"This is not hyperbole. Trump doesn’t just admire dictators; he envies them. He views alliances as weakness and diplomacy as a con."

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Sharon Evans's avatar

Today is March 31, 2025. Tried to follow this link: "in line with Project 2025’s calls" from the next-to-last paragraph.

Found out this: "Account suspended. X suspends accounts which violate the X Rules."

Didn't take long for Fascist Musk to silence your source. We are not in a safe place, Toto.

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Cs's avatar

Ansolutely stunning. Haake is so much more informed, more detailed and precise, and more on-target, than almost anyone in big media. What a gift! She should be in the next administration, to clean up this mess.

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Eric Chaffee's avatar

Sabrina, my comment re April twenty is MIA. Please look for it, as it is likely being suppressed by deepstate. ~eric.

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