"Heads Are Going to Roll" - Pentagon's Signal Scandal ALARMS Navy SEALs DJ Shipley & Cole Fackler
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In this episode, Ward and Rob discuss the scandal of a reporter accidentally being added to a Signal group chat, and the fallout, and how the White House handled it. They also discuss the implications of the scandal, and what should be done if something like this happens again.
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yesterday we get ward and i want to get your thoughts on this yesterday's story comes out
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rob if you want to pull this up the whole signal gate whatever they want to call it right the
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signal chat with pete exit you know pentagon inspector general opens investigation into exit
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signal chat scandal the white house said this week that the case has been closed on the signal
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scandal the pentagon's inspector general opened it back up and then uh rob is this the one where
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six people got fired yesterday can you go that's a separate article that's this one right here
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trump fired six national security staffers after meeting with the far right activist laura loomer
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this is with the guardian trump ally presented with the opposition research against a number of
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officials that said she followed their disloyalty can you go a little bit lower rob to see who it was
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fired six national security team the firing compass four staffers who were fired overnight after the
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meeting and two who were removed over the weekend created extraordinary situation uh loomer appeared
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to have more influence than the national security advisor mike waltz okay so now this is what they're
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going through with communication mike waltz is creating a group chat on signal where they're
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communicating about a decision that's being made and then accidentally the individual that gets added
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to the chat rob is somebody from jeffrey goldberg from the atlantic from the atlantic he gets into it
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accidentally he's in it some are saying you know the way that it happened it is what it is
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for you guys you're out there how are you communicating yourself what apps were you using
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when you're communicating what apps are being used today and maybe what different angle do you guys
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the fact that everybody in there is a human we use signal we use silent circle we had all the same thing
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and people do get people have the same name and as soon as i first saw that we were on the gym
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talking about them that looks like you're a normal person scrolling down on the phone and you click
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one wrong name and you don't realize there's two john davises in your phone that's what it looked like
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to me nobody sanity checked it and you start communicating i mean we've launched out really
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detailed stuff on signal chats i mean business stuff i mean all kinds of stuff things happen i mean
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there definitely been some checks and balances something needs to be sanity checking that but that's
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that's real world that's what they do that's what everybody does you have a you have a group chat you
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have a signal thread i'm sure you're on them too that if that thing gets leaked and the photos that
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you share with your old buddies something you don't want out there it's the same thing it's just on a
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huge public scale now that seems very normal to me that someone messed up a signal group chat
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at that level well no you know you shouldn't have it at that level but at the end of the day
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people are human they're brand new into that job they haven't done that i mean he didn't have any
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experience doing that before like how many people are in that i don't know i don't think it was
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malicious by any of those guys i don't most certainly don't think anybody would add a reporter into a
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signal chat and start talking about business knowingly no for sure not knowingly to me it's it's more
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uh you know one how it happened two do i trust signal three if a mistake like that happens that could
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lead to something with the enemy finding out before we're doing something that's massively problematic
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right and what should the punishments for something like this happen like if that happened in buds is
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there is there a high level of not buds if that happens you're a seal you're you're on you're out
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there you're talking to each other you accidentally add somebody else that gets leaked to the market one
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did it ever happen and two if it does how do they handle that i can't remember time for it actually
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happening like a like an actual thing you know business being leaked out to anybody nothing pre
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always post yeah yeah nothing pre always post yeah nothing uh previously before something happened
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but definitely after what did you guys do like when you're being added to group chat like was there
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especially nowadays would they train you to say anytime you're being added to this first look at
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this and look at that and look at this because like right now emails for us guy sends an email one
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of our guys respond this literally happened two weeks ago that person wired a hundred thousand
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dollars to somebody that was fraud this just happened we just lost a hundred we're never going
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to get this hundred thousand dollars back it's happened two weeks ago why here's the email it looks
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like a legit email change the password they log in boom boom boom 100k out two or three weeks ago
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this happened to us right so these types of things happen and you train when you're getting an email
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when somebody says this actually check the email do you guys get trained on that or no it's pure
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common sense they leave it to you you get trained on it yeah you get trained on it and there's
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definitely been some occurrences where uh human error or malicious will happen and then pretty quick
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fix uh on the it catches fired or not fired well depending what it is you definitely get fired
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so in a situation like this somebody's getting fired yeah okay something like that heads are gonna roll
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so mike waltz what you're saying is mike waltz's favorite song on repeat right now is i'm only
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human he's listening to that hoping he doesn't get fired but at that level he might get fired
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i i'll date myself it was probably 2011 2012 it was either silent circle or signal when it was first
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coming out and it was literally everybody sitting inside the team room everybody because you can't
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bring your phones upstairs everybody get on stairs we're all going to download signal that's going to
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be our new unclass or you know unclassed chat for the whole group so if we have to pass anything
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movements you know training trips whatever we'll put it out on signal that way we get in real time
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it's not just a an apple text communication these guys have android and apple all the other stuff so
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yeah i mean we transitioned over to signal for a lot of the stuff but i mean yeah i mean you have
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it guys making sure everybody's above board i mean there's always issues with it who owns signal
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who owns the backside all that kind of stuff it's do you trust it do you guys trust it
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i trust it for stuff that me and him are doing i wouldn't trust it at that level
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so what do they use now at that level i'll be honest i would have thought there was some
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proprietary thing that elon musk has come up with now by now or something the fact we're just
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downloading something off a regular app store on that level kind of surprised me if i'm being honest
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i agree with you bro i actually agree with you but i also know a bunch of guys who were
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in the beltway senators congressmen that's how they normally communicate
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yeah they just have you know an unclass we'll just call an unclass chat me and cole are texting
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back and forth and we just do everything on signal that way it's it's secure so even you guys when
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you guys don't text each other you signal on everything i mean we normally text but we all
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i'd probably have 50 signal chats from trainings we do you know swat teams we're going to go train
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everything's on a signal chat so out of all of them you trust signal more than some of the other
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guys telegram whatsapp definitely more than whatsapp okay got it so signal's at the top for you okay
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