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underpants

(194,600 posts)
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 06:25 PM Mar 2025

White House taps Musk to investigate Signal chat mishap

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 Counsel’s Office, and also yes, Elon Musk’s 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 Goldberg’s number got into his phone.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5215547-white-house-asks-musk-investigate-signal/



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White House taps Musk to investigate Signal chat mishap (Original Post) underpants Mar 2025 OP
Is this a joke................. Lovie777 Mar 2025 #1
I thought it was the Onion.... Nictuku Mar 2025 #2
Same here! SheltieLover Mar 2025 #19
I was pretty certain it HAD to be the Onion. dchill Mar 2025 #29
It takes some brainpower to figure out how a number gets on your phone underpants Mar 2025 #3
No. dalton99a Mar 2025 #4
No kidding Bristlecone Mar 2025 #28
yeah that"ll work. AltairIV Mar 2025 #5
Do I hear the word cover up? greatauntoftriplets Mar 2025 #6
Paul weiss Henry203 Mar 2025 #7
You don't need musk to understand what happened. ecstatic Mar 2025 #8
You mean how you add a contact? underpants Mar 2025 #14
That's really going to go over well with the voters Tribetime Mar 2025 #9
The South African parasite will draw on his super genius powers and decades of intelligence work dalton99a Mar 2025 #10
What a joke. OAITW r.2.0 Mar 2025 #11
I find this even more sinister. They are trying to shift blame to Goldberg - Waltz insinuated that something nefarious tulipsandroses Mar 2025 #12
I've seen the hacking excuse posed as question a lot underpants Mar 2025 #13
Ummm when I want to add a number I ask my grandkids to help lol questionseverything Mar 2025 #27
Okay. ❤️ underpants Mar 2025 #30
Just trying to laugh instead of cry ❤️ questionseverything Mar 2025 #31
I've gotten a "similar name" in my contacts list by mistake before on TEAMs; haele Mar 2025 #36
Due, no doubt, to his extensive experience in investigative work. MMBeilis Mar 2025 #15
Was Inspector Clouseau busy? FalloutShelter Mar 2025 #16
Fox, meet henhouse. Aristus Mar 2025 #17
Remember, Dear Leader was amazed that his youngest kid could turn a laptop on in 5 minutes tishaLA Mar 2025 #18
He's good with the cyber a lot of people say. underpants Mar 2025 #26
Why am I not surprised? Ocelot II Mar 2025 #20
COMING SOON: Elon Musk discovers new secret evidence, refers Goldberg to DOJ for indictment dalton99a Mar 2025 #21
Yikes - we were typing at the same time. yellow dahlia Mar 2025 #24
They are going to subpoena Goldberg's phone. yellow dahlia Mar 2025 #22
Yep. dalton99a Mar 2025 #25
He'll put his top tech wizard, code name "Big Balls," right on it. Buns_of_Fire Mar 2025 #23
This is almost hysterically funny, except it isn't. spanone Mar 2025 #32
No kidding. underpants Mar 2025 #33
The Three Stooges' investigation begins synni Mar 2025 #34
Yeab, that'll work. patphil Mar 2025 #35
lol mzmolly Mar 2025 #37
Maybe that will slow down his stealing a couple of days GoodRaisin Mar 2025 #38
Uh huh Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2025 #39

underpants

(194,600 posts)
3. It takes some brainpower to figure out how a number gets on your phone
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 06:30 PM
Mar 2025

🙄

I highlighted that part because it’s so f’ing stupid.

AltairIV

(1,003 posts)
5. yeah that"ll work.
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 06:30 PM
Mar 2025

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)
6. Do I hear the word cover up?
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 06:31 PM
Mar 2025

' Cause that's what this is. Do they believe that people who think will buy this?

underpants

(194,600 posts)
14. You mean how you add a contact?
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 06:47 PM
Mar 2025

Yeah that’s a tough one to figure out. 🙄🤔😆

Tribetime

(7,030 posts)
9. That's really going to go over well with the voters
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 06:32 PM
Mar 2025

I don't think they could have chosen anyone else that's hated more

dalton99a

(91,852 posts)
10. The South African parasite will draw on his super genius powers and decades of intelligence work
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 06:33 PM
Mar 2025

tulipsandroses

(8,117 posts)
12. I find this even more sinister. They are trying to shift blame to Goldberg - Waltz insinuated that something nefarious
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 06:42 PM
Mar 2025

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)
13. I've seen the hacking excuse posed as question a lot
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 06:47 PM
Mar 2025

Lots of really lame excuses going around.

Luckily Elon’s team is there to figure out how a number gets on your phone. 🙄

haele

(15,031 posts)
36. I've gotten a "similar name" in my contacts list by mistake before on TEAMs;
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 08:17 PM
Mar 2025

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 ..

tishaLA

(14,710 posts)
18. Remember, Dear Leader was amazed that his youngest kid could turn a laptop on in 5 minutes
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 06:50 PM
Mar 2025

like he's a GD genius. That's the level of technical ability we're dealing with in this administration

Ocelot II

(128,846 posts)
20. Why am I not surprised?
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 06:50 PM
Mar 2025

It's only a question of which fox they were going to appoint to guard the henhouse.

dalton99a

(91,852 posts)
21. COMING SOON: Elon Musk discovers new secret evidence, refers Goldberg to DOJ for indictment
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 06:54 PM
Mar 2025

yellow dahlia

(4,302 posts)
22. They are going to subpoena Goldberg's phone.
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 06:55 PM
Mar 2025

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?



Buns_of_Fire

(18,980 posts)
23. He'll put his top tech wizard, code name "Big Balls," right on it.
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 06:57 PM
Mar 2025

Just as soon as he wakes up from his nap.

patphil

(8,670 posts)
35. Yeab, that'll work.
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 07:46 PM
Mar 2025

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.

GoodRaisin

(10,700 posts)
38. Maybe that will slow down his stealing a couple of days
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 10:15 PM
Mar 2025

while he’s working on a good lie for his investigation.

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