• Lasherz@lemmy.worldM
    5·
    1 year ago

    Another bit I think people are missing… Signal is not a government contracted app. They’re trying to avoid written records that can be FOIAed

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Oh it’s even better than that. They’re talking about State secrets outside approved channels. We have secure government communication channels. Random Signal chats aren’t it.

      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
        2·
        1 year ago

        All the people who were mad about Clinton’s email that aren’t furious about this are hypocrits that should never be taken seriously again.

        • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m way past the point of ever taking any republican voter or politician seriously again. They literally believe in nothing. They just parrot whatever they told to and say whatever they need to. Barely human shit.

          • Lasherz@lemmy.worldM
            1·
            1 year ago

            This is something Vaush goes back to a lot on his streams. Modern Republicans don’t believe in anything anymore, and so there’s no point in continuing to debate them. It’s like arguing with a monkey throwing poop to be a left leaning debater.

    • can@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 year ago

      More info

      There was another potential problem: Waltz set some of the messages in the Signal group to disappear after one week, and some after four. That raises questions about whether the officials may have violated federal records law: Text messages about official acts are considered records that should be preserved.

      “Under the records laws applicable to the White House and federal agencies, all government employees are prohibited from using electronic-messaging applications such as Signal for official business, unless those messages are promptly forwarded or copied to an official government account,” Jason R. Baron, a professor at the University of Maryland and the former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration, told Harris.

      • Erusset@slrpnk.net
        2·
        26 days ago

        So they were just trying to forward the messages to be saved, but they just sent it to the reporters instead /s

      • rayyy@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        In this case, sending of Top Secret information reaches a much higher level of lawbreaking though.