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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
The Atlantic ^ | March 26. 2025 | Jeffery Goldberg and Shane Harris

Posted on 03/26/2025 10:41:18 AM PDT by Yo-Yo

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To: Red Badger

Yes indeed...

There’s “plans” and there’s “analysis” (which precedes “plans”)...
This was legit “analysis” and, hopefully, the “plan” will be ready for execution very soon...


41 posted on 03/26/2025 11:19:59 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: Yo-Yo

the first half of the texts almost sounds like they talked as if they had an audience... but I may be wrong.

the second part gives absolutely nothing away accept possible the timing with the girl friend. but other than that, this is a big fat nothing...


42 posted on 03/26/2025 11:20:43 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: 1Old Pro

At a minimum they should have everyone check in to the chat.

If Goldberg had been required to say something as JG he would have been compromised.

We still don’t know who the real JG is either.


43 posted on 03/26/2025 11:21:26 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: riverrunner

Operation Mincemeat


44 posted on 03/26/2025 11:22:31 AM PDT by rudy45
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To: cuban leaf
Seems like a pretty good job of messaging to me.

Puts the Trump team in very good light and effectively supports a wide range of Trump Administration policy positions.

And if you wanted to send a concise set of messages to make a point , those message were very effectively sent, with an exclamation point, to all the right people around the world so they could hear very clearly to "get the message"

If this were not leaked , it should have been.

45 posted on 03/26/2025 11:22:35 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: Yo-Yo
We use Signal for our family group chats.

The only people in my directory are those in the chats I participate in.

46 posted on 03/26/2025 11:23:00 AM PDT by hcmama
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To: SuperLuminal

The Plan

In the beginning, there was a plan,
And then came the assumptions,
And the assumptions were without form,
And the plan without substance,

And the darkness was upon the face of the workers,
And they spoke among themselves saying,
“It is a crock of shit and it stinks.”

And the workers went unto their Supervisors and said,
“It is a pile of dung, and we cannot live with the smell.”

And the Supervisors went unto their Managers saying,
“It is a container of excrement, and it is very strong,
Such that none may abide by it.”

And the Managers went unto their Directors saying,
“It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide by its strength.”

And the Directors spoke among themselves saying to one another,
“It contains that which aids plants growth, and it is very strong.”

And the Directors went to the Vice Presidents saying unto them,
“It promotes growth, and it is very powerful.”

And the Vice Presidents went to the President, saying unto him,
“This new plan will actively promote the growth and vigor
Of the company With very powerful effects.”

And the President looked upon the Plan
And saw that it was good,
And the Plan became Policy.

And this, my friend, is how shit happens.


47 posted on 03/26/2025 11:26:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: A_perfect_lady
That’s surely classified.

It would have been better to have ripped the Band-Aid off yesterday if they knew this was out there. Allowing Goldberg to "fact-check" the claims yesterday that there was no classified information or details in the group chat allowed it to dominate the news cycle for another 24 hours at least.

48 posted on 03/26/2025 11:27:22 AM PDT by hcmama
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To: DugwayDuke
Anyone who thinks that conversation discloses War Plans, has never seen a real War Plan.

Probably the same people who thought J6 was an insurrection but never saw a real insurrection.

49 posted on 03/26/2025 11:31:17 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Based on decades of participation in meetings and briefings of planned operations, the entire discussion would have been TS. The text that POTUS had green lighted the attack, and it was a go was certainly TS, as were the events and times.

Nothing wrong with the conversation, only the communication medium and the reaction to the “leak” (this is actually called “spillage”).


50 posted on 03/26/2025 11:32:25 AM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: Yo-Yo
The Wiretap Act requires intent to intercept communication unlawfully (18 U.S.C. § 2511(1)). If you didn't mean to record—like your phone's voice memo turned on by mistake or a call was unintentionally captured—courts might not find a violation, as long as you didn't plan or exploit it.

It seems like Goldberg eavesdropped with intention to exploit the information. Anyone else think he broke the law or at least made to testify before Congress?
51 posted on 03/26/2025 11:34:43 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: unclebankster

They’re supporting Hamas in the Gazan war and are supported by Iran. They have been launching missiles at Israel and at US Navy drones.


52 posted on 03/26/2025 11:37:20 AM PDT by skr (1 Peter 1:15 - But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation)
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To: sit-rep
the second part gives absolutely nothing away accept possible the timing with the girl friend. but other than that, this is a big fat nothing...

That info was after the fact, though it might possibly reveal some source or technique. Apparently we had surveillance of her apartment.

53 posted on 03/26/2025 11:40:00 AM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: TexasGator

“You”


54 posted on 03/26/2025 11:41:10 AM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: ETCM

btt!


55 posted on 03/26/2025 11:43:43 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: ETCM
Based on decades of participation in meetings and briefings of planned operations, the entire discussion would have been TS.

I'll defer to your expertise. I had a clearance back when I was in charge of typing up Ammo Transaction Reports in the Navy back in the 80s, but that's the limit of my experience in such matters.

56 posted on 03/26/2025 11:47:07 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: skr

They’re supporting Hamas in the Gazan war and are supported by Iran. They have been launching missiles at Israel and at US Navy drones.

********************

That’s a problem for Israel.

If they shoot at US ships or attack US aircraft in international waters/air space, then “light them up.”

Drones over Yemen air space are going to get lost/shot down and aren’t a Casus belli event.


57 posted on 03/26/2025 11:49:31 AM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: hcmama
Allowing Goldberg to "fact-check" the claims yesterday that there was no classified information or details in the group chat allowed it to dominate the news cycle for another 24 hours at least.

Exactly. Attacking the press was a mistake. Denying there was any classified content hurts our credibility. Arguing of whether this content amounts “war plans” is juvenile. It was discussion of an imminent military action against an enemy before the attack. We should have owned it.

58 posted on 03/26/2025 11:50:17 AM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: Old West Conservative

“You”

Nope. I am TG


59 posted on 03/26/2025 11:51:45 AM PDT by TexasGator (111'111111111/)
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To: Yo-Yo

And?

All the pearl clutchers are agitator.

This is all silly.

No big deal at all.


60 posted on 03/26/2025 11:55:21 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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