Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public
Source: Wired
A Venmo account under the name “Michael Waltz,” carrying a profile photo of the national security adviser and connected to accounts bearing the names of people closely associated with him, was left open to the public until Wednesday afternoon. A WIRED analysis shows that the account revealed the names of hundreds of Waltz’s personal and professional associates, including journalists, military officers, lobbyists, and others—information a foreign intelligence service or other actors could exploit for any number of ends, experts say.
Among the accounts linked to “Michael Waltz” are ones that appear to belong to Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, and Walker Barrett, a staffer on the United States National Security Council. Both were fellow participants in a now-infamous Signal group chat called “Houthi PC small group.”
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A WIRED review of public data exposed on Venmo accounts associated with senior administration officials suggests that the Signal group chat was not an isolated mistake, but part of a broader pattern of what national security experts describe as reckless behavior by some of the most powerful people in the US government.
The Venmo account under Waltz’s name includes a 328-person friend list. Among them are accounts sharing the names of people closely associated with Waltz, such as Barrett, formerly Waltz’s deputy chief of staff when Waltz was a member of the House of Representatives, and Micah Thomas Ketchel, former chief of staff to Waltz and currently a senior adviser to Waltz and President Donald Trump.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/michael-waltz-left-his-venmo-public/

Ocelot II
(123,873 posts)Or is it affirmative action for mediocre, sloppy, tech-ignorant white men?
COL Mustard
(7,309 posts)No credit for originality, I read that somewhere else.
calimary
(85,595 posts)Skittles
(162,919 posts)
markodochartaigh
(2,534 posts)lying on their backs at the bottom of ponds. I've seen more organized things running around barnyards with their heads cut off.
Special thanks to Fawlty Towers
boonecreek
(802 posts)
Skittles
(162,919 posts)so fucking phony
calimary
(85,595 posts)AlanAdam
(100 posts)Do you remember him, former GOP speaker of the house from Mississippi IIRC? I heard someone refer to him as Trenthorn Lotthorn. Sounded just like the cartoon character.
marble falls
(64,246 posts)the nelm
(43 posts)Of course, expecting anything less with Mr. Trump in charge is fool's errand...
erronis
(18,617 posts)I hate to give credit to the russians, but they have nicely played this game.
central scrutinizer
(12,502 posts)What clowns
rubbersole
(9,597 posts)Journeyman
(15,291 posts)WestMichRad
(2,182 posts)
Hekate
(96,939 posts)
Pisces
(5,914 posts)Javaman
(63,476 posts)DinahMoeHum
(22,797 posts). . .the one whose head could roll first.
Deuxcents
(21,548 posts)MontanaMama
(24,354 posts)to the chat so he may very well go first. I would add that if he doesn’t get fired, none of them will.
progressoid
(51,163 posts)Trump goes through people like Taco Bell through my colon.
Lovie777
(17,576 posts)highplainsdem
(55,085 posts)Captain Zero
(7,776 posts)nt
Raven
(14,221 posts)ToxMarz
(2,306 posts)is more tech savvy than this Mook. He probably doesn't even know he has Venmo.
Captain Zero
(7,776 posts)He probably doesn't.
Snarkoleptic
(6,104 posts)Foreign actors are always on the lookout for intel weaknesses to exploit.
We are not safe.
harun
(11,370 posts)WestMichRad
(2,182 posts)They don’t even have to work to find intel weaknesses. These bozos are gift-wrapping them.
BadgerMom
(3,159 posts)I think I’m going to subscribe in support. It’s good that journalists somewhere know what the job entails.
ancianita
(40,184 posts)BadgerMom
(3,159 posts)Of course, it automatically renews in a year. Then it’s $30. But that’s still within reason for me and if I don’t want to renew, I’ve set my calendar for 3/1/26 to review my options.
Tom Dyer
(125 posts)Only the best!
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Bev54
(12,278 posts)
BurnDoubt
(200 posts)is that we won't get ahead of this before Evolution weeds out the unfit. So far, we've been getting by on the fruits of their incompetence and the blunders attributed to his out-of-control Ego. We're in a race to find a cure before it kills us all. Where are the Constitutional Scholars????????? The Constitution can't be so poorly written that it permits the very thing it was written to prevent????????
jmbar2
(6,733 posts)Harker
(15,912 posts)Sanity Claws
(22,150 posts)I have very few Venmo contacts. Just friends that I have to pay back for a dinner out or something similar. Why would anyone have over 300 contacts on Venmo? Are most of them from the Trump administration?
Farmer-Rick
(11,707 posts)Musk passes off our Social Security funds and other tax dollars to his pals, and they pass it around to pay off each other. Like Putin does with Russian tax rubles, after he builds himself a castle that costs him nothing.
I would love to see what money is changing hands.
FakeNoose
(37,022 posts)
IronLionZion
(48,219 posts)We are witnessing true greatness every day.
wolfie001
(4,333 posts)
MayReasonRule
(2,823 posts)Initech
(104,372 posts)
FakeNoose
(37,022 posts)If that's even possible.
RockCreek
(928 posts)don't want to take a chance of hurting his fragile ego...
eppur_se_muova
(38,659 posts)Now they know all the phones they should hack.
Irish_Dem
(66,927 posts)Or like Gaetz is his paying off the girls he is trafficking?
Canada Kid
(60 posts)With the dust from this last security blowout still swirling in the wind....this inept moron pulls the same stunt on another public chat service! Just a hollow space between the ears! Just look up "moron" in the dictionary...his name is printed beside!