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The White House has asked Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to help investigate how a journalist was included on a Signal chat with national security officials.
The National Security Council, the White House Counsels Office, and also yes, Elon Musks team, press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters when asked who was leading an investigation into the Signal mishap.
Elon Musk has offered to put his technical experts on this to figure out how this number was inadvertently added to the chat, again to take responsibility and ensure this can never happen again, she added.
National security adviser Mike Waltz, who apparently added The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg into the chat, told Fox News on Tuesday night that he spoke with Musk and said his best technical minds are looking into how Goldbergs number got into his phone.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5215547-white-house-asks-musk-investigate-signal/
Lovie777
(21,582 posts)Nictuku
(4,529 posts)SheltieLover
(76,154 posts)dchill
(42,660 posts)underpants
(194,600 posts)🙄
I highlighted that part because its so fing stupid.
Bristlecone
(10,983 posts)AltairIV
(1,003 posts)I'm sure they already have the answer, now they just have to come up with the evidence to support their conclusions.
greatauntoftriplets
(178,590 posts)' Cause that's what this is. Do they believe that people who think will buy this?
Henry203
(832 posts)Is one of the great investigation firms. They do all the NFL investigations.
ecstatic
(35,003 posts)jfc. what a bunch of clowns!
underpants
(194,600 posts)Yeah thats a tough one to figure out. 🙄🤔😆
Tribetime
(7,030 posts)I don't think they could have chosen anyone else that's hated more
dalton99a
(91,852 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(31,345 posts)tulipsandroses
(8,117 posts)happened. On that Fox interview, it seems like Ingram was trying to throw him a lifeline, trying to get him to throw a staffer under the bus. She repeatedly asked about a staffer putting the number on his phone. He said No to that and asked Laura if she'd ever had a number in her phone and the number belonged to someone else. What????
Is he trying to say that Goldberg hacked his phone? Someone tricked him and gave him Goldberg's number instead of their own? This is so damn absurd and the sick part of it is that they are willing to destroy people's lives to keep their lie going.
underpants
(194,600 posts)Lots of really lame excuses going around.
Luckily Elons team is there to figure out how a number gets on your phone. 🙄
questionseverything
(11,529 posts)underpants
(194,600 posts)questionseverything
(11,529 posts)haele
(15,031 posts)And ended up having to check every single time that I didn't select that name whenever I built new meetings lists for months afterwards.
It could be as easy as someone, staff member or not, setting up, say, a Press Editors Meeting or something like that on their cell a couple weeks prior, and Goldberg was on that list.
So when a new list or forwarded invite was being built for the Houthi Attack Signal Chat - a list pulled off the Contacts on that particular phone - Goldberg's name could easily have been auto-filled on the invite.
Whomever forwarded the invite didn't check before hitting "send", and since the icon just showed JG, no one on the call thought to find out if he was the actual intended participant or not.
There, I found the problem and gave the most plausible solution. And I didn't charge a million dollars to do so ..
MMBeilis
(455 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,140 posts)Aristus
(71,544 posts)tishaLA
(14,710 posts)like he's a GD genius. That's the level of technical ability we're dealing with in this administration
underpants
(194,600 posts)Ocelot II
(128,846 posts)It's only a question of which fox they were going to appoint to guard the henhouse.
dalton99a
(91,852 posts)yellow dahlia
(4,302 posts)yellow dahlia
(4,302 posts)They are going to try and hack Goldberg. They are going to come after him...and scare the rest of the media.
I hope he has reached out to the brave lawyers - Marc Elias, Norm Eisen, Democracy Forward, Public Citizen.
Maybe that is why he "accidentally" got put on the signal thread. They are really good at the false flags and other plots. Should I put my tin hat here?
dalton99a
(91,852 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(18,980 posts)Just as soon as he wakes up from his nap.
spanone
(140,920 posts)Good god almighty
underpants
(194,600 posts)A part of this, once again, is an exhibit of how much Elon controls him.
synni
(668 posts)patphil
(8,670 posts)Let's put the guy who's been burning the government down in charge of the investigation of why these idiots are destroying the credibility of, not just the DOD, but a whole bunch more Cabinet level agencies.
I think that's just perfect.
Maybe "big balls" can issue the final report.
mzmolly
(52,585 posts)GoodRaisin
(10,700 posts)while hes working on a good lie for his investigation.