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Do you think they’ll get prosecuted? I am willing to bet money that congress won’t even have hearings on it.
by adrr 2y ago
Do you think they’ll get prosecuted? I am willing to bet money that congress won’t even have hearings on it.
- reverius42 2y agoCongress is already having hearings (at the committee level): https://www.axios.com/2025/03/24/congress-yemen-signal-hegseth https://www.axios.com/2025/03/24/congress-yemen-signal-hegse... But it's not clear that will progress to anything further.
- asteroidburger 2y agoThe Senate Intelligence Committee already held a hearing today: https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339484/signal-war-plans-congress https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339484/signal-war-plan...
- belter 2y agoWhere the director of the Intelligence Services, refused to say, if she was participating on the Signal thread with her government issued phone, or with her personal phone...
- sethammons 2y agoLong pause: "I don't recall." The exact legal advice passed on to me around answering questions in a deposition played out live; wild.
- chrisco255 2y agoNone of what they said was actually classified, and if the conversation included the president and vice president, then they inherently decide what is and is not classified. The power of the executive branch is vested in the president.
- mullingitover 2y agoDoesn’t matter, they were conducting government business on a clandestine private system with the intent of evading public records laws. Literally the crime they endlessly accused Clinton of.
- chrisco255 2y agoThey have to archive the messages and they have staffers in those chats whose job is to do just that. The Biden administration used Signal as well. It's perfectly fine as long as it's archived.
- skyyler 2y agoAre the reports of the chat making use of Signal's auto-deleting feature incorrect then?
- chrisco255 2y agoGiven that we all know the content of these messages, they are clearly archivable.
- skyyler 2y agoWe know the content of the ones that leaked this chat. That doesn't mean they're being archived according to the law.
- mullingitover 2y agoTwo problems with this: How were the staffers archiving the disappearing messages? What evidence do you have that the Biden administration conducted official government business on Signal?[1] If they were above board and legal with this they wouldn’t have forced their republican congressional oversight committee to drag them into hearings. [1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-cia-director-blames-biden-235001985.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-cia-director-blames-biden-2...