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Hegseth "Controversy" Presents A Golden Window of Opportunity To Smash Leftist Alinsky Onslaught
General Flynn's Substack ^ | 30 Mar, 2025 | Christopher G. Adamo

Posted on 03/31/2025 8:02:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber

As leftist Democrats seek to escalate their phony hysteria over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the supposed "breach of national security," their duplicity and hypocrisy provide an unparalleled opportunity for Real America to fully unmask them, and dismantle their manipulative scheme once and for all. Of course, doing so requires a thorough grasp of the real dynamics of the current situation, and more specifically the underhanded machinations by which they hope to succeed.

First, it needs to be understood that their end game has nothing whatsoever to do with any lofty sanctimony of wanting to make America safer. This is, and has always been, all about leftist politics as usual, and nothing more. Rather, the goal is to convince America that this is a scandal riddled Administration, with the same old end game of destroying it through their "death by a thousand cuts."

The left is currently in blatant, full "Alinsky" mode against Hegseth, as outlined in his "Rules for Radicals." They seek to "freeze" him as their target, and by making association with him a "liability," they expect to isolate him from the rest of the Trump inner circle. If successful to that point, they would move towards politically destroying him, which would necessitate his removal from high office, thus neutralizing a powerful opponent but also sending a message to the rest of the Trump White House, that the same fate awaits any of them who dare to upend the Washington Status Quo as Hegseth has done. It is by this means that leftists have often smashed Conservative momentum, and prevented any meaningful reforms from being implemented among them.

While we are indeed at a precarious juncture on account of this malignant assault, it also presents an unmatched opportunity to not only turn the tide on Hegseth's critics

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: leftism
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To: Teacher317

Seems like the worst personnel pick that could be made. Who vetted Wong?


21 posted on 03/31/2025 9:41:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Conference calls are like conferences, you have somebody in charge of the conference room that sets up schedules, sets up the technology and has everything waiting for the attendees to waltz into the room and it’s show time!

Who was that person for this particular conference call (i.e. conference)?

There’s no way an SES had anything to do with the logistics.


22 posted on 03/31/2025 9:41:57 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: kingu

study deferred gratification and the concept of problem solving.

as I said, democrats do something, Trump solves problems.

I trust Trump more than you.


23 posted on 03/31/2025 9:44:31 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: kingu

You missed the background that Signal WAS an approved platfom for conducting govt business, the Trump team inherited this guidance from the Biden admin, and their work devices were uploaded with the app ( as Nat Sec Advisor briefed to Senate)

And also that classification and declas authority resides with the POTUS ….but is routinely used on work product by personnel who have been cleared, briefed and trained on the established criteria for assigning such classification levels

Not Goldberg


24 posted on 03/31/2025 9:47:14 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: silverleaf

Signal was approved for federal phones for communication OUTSIDE of government duties, it has never been authorized as a communication platform for government business.

As for Goldberg, who isn’t authorized to have classified information, sharing such information with someone not authorized is kind of a crime, like federal prison time crime. Like Hillary should have been convicted of.

And by every code of conduct of journalism as well as court rulings, publishing ‘secret’ information after it is public knowledge is by no means a crime.

When he published his article, the only secret was that administration officials were conducting business on Signal and stupidly included them in the conversation.


25 posted on 03/31/2025 9:58:43 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

And yet, I’ve a problem with someone following the typical liberal methodology that when they run out of argument, they attack those they disagree with. Democrats did something, authorizing an app that should never be on a government device, Trump administration officials exposed how they’re using it to conduct official business outside of the public records act.

I’m awaiting a solving of this problem.


26 posted on 03/31/2025 10:01:13 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: kingu

You obviously did not listen to Waltz testimony before Congress about Signal being an authorized work platform, uploaded on devices used for official duties

Its still up on teitter


27 posted on 03/31/2025 10:11:02 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: silverleaf; kingu

You missed the background that Signal WAS an approved platfom for conducting govt business”

It was installed on all executive level phones and approved for government business.

But it has never been approved for the transmissions of classified information. That was always excluded specifically.


28 posted on 03/31/2025 11:14:53 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

Alright, then show me the amendment to the public records act?


29 posted on 03/31/2025 11:59:57 AM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: kingu

There are incidental communications exempt from the act.

And it’s not well defined.


30 posted on 03/31/2025 12:17:00 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: kingu
Tell me you are an administrative rule bound lilliputian without telling me you are an administrative state functionary. There was a huge error, committed by Biden's crowd - thinking that Signal is a secure app when it is evidently no such thing. Elon has already talked about the incompetence of government IT. You don't need me to do it. But it is real, and it is a two or three decade old problem. It's built on the same acquisition incompetence coupled with using the same incompetent corrupt inside the swamp contractors to supply all of this stuff. One thing it is not is Trump's fault or Hegseth's fault and certainly not Waltz's fault. The alternative to Signal was simply not to talk which means forestalling any and all military ops until competent people can create a competent useble secure comms system between the principles. Signal was the Biden administration's answer to the lack of one. The lack of one goes way way way back. In 2016 SecDef Carter tried to create e the Diffense Innovtion Unit to fix this, but that ran into a Congressional and military acqusition buzz saw. It finally got going for real this year in a big way.

There is no quick fix to this problem.

31 posted on 03/31/2025 12:31:17 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: kingu
You don’t drain the swamp by letting them keep their secret messaging app that can self destruct messages.

You show your utter ignorance by muddling about 10 different issues together. Trump said they are likely to stop using it. But before you drop one comms method you have to create another one - and dolts like you keep overlooking that the problem is that there isn't a presently workable alternative. Why? Government IT incompetence, and deepstate corruption. That's why. Why is that so hard to understand for you?

32 posted on 03/31/2025 12:34:26 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Mariner

Finally a valid point from you.


33 posted on 03/31/2025 12:35:16 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

You don’t determine what is a valid point from me.

Hundreds of people read these threads and I am confident most agree with me.

As much as you’d like to silence me, it’s not going to happen. Expect more and expect my POV to prevail.

As it did on Trump in 2015 and as it did on the war in Ukraine since 2021.


34 posted on 03/31/2025 12:48:16 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

I know for a fact you are a clueless bloviating twit. What others think is their concern.


35 posted on 03/31/2025 1:19:03 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: lurk

He should have been arrested.


36 posted on 03/31/2025 1:47:05 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: Mariner

And who announced that this meeting was classified?


37 posted on 03/31/2025 3:09:31 PM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: sopo
At this moment, CNN online showing nothing on Hegseth, signal, Waltz.

At least they have dropped Jan 6th meme ( for a while ).

38 posted on 03/31/2025 3:15:41 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Mariner
Hundreds of people read these threads and I am confident most agree with me.

LOL!!!

39 posted on 03/31/2025 3:17:28 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: kingu

Go to hell a-hole! You are either a Moralistic do-gooder or someone with a more devious design. You act just like the left wants us to act. No more!


40 posted on 03/31/2025 4:37:48 PM PDT by ohioman
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