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Whats Going On Brandi Dawn's avatar

I think this is unconscionable and I’m a Canadian.

If you didn’t think it’s huge: consider how many politicians like Schiff, or Pete Buttigeig, who are normally measured in their speech, have called it a “fuck up”, “massive fuck up”, and I think someone also used “clusterfuck”.

Because sometimes, there are no other words.

One participant was joining from overseas, from MOSCOW.

FYI for anyone out there who hears “Signal is encrypted”- technically yes. It’s also been successfully decrypted by the Russians, which has been interfering in anti government communications and Ukrainian communications in the Russia Ukraine invasion.

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Anne P. Sacco's avatar

Agree 100% with you, my fellow Canuck! 🇨🇦 🍁 ❤️

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Barb O's avatar

I actually like that some of these politicians now are actually using language that is most appropriate to the situation instead of trying to sugar coat. Even Sen Duckworth, a woman, used the f word!

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Karen Glaub's avatar

Most everybody knows if you go to Russia, they're watching you and have advanced cyber capabilities. I wonder why Moscow didn't examine their intelligence on Witkoff's phone while he was there and getting the message. Surely they have that capability. I think they screwed up and didn't catch it or review it in time or they would have warned the Houthis.

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Whats Going On Brandi Dawn's avatar

They probably felt that the trade off- having to admit they have his cell phone cloned as they probably do, wouldn’t be worth the upside of saving a couple of Houthi assets. Or maybe they did covertly inform them, and they were able to move their important Houthi leadership out of harms way. No one has said the mission successfully “eliminated” any leaders of the Houthis, even though the report on planning sounded like they were targeting individuals seen as important.

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Whats Going On Brandi Dawn's avatar

Also, I like your thinking Karen. Good insight, considering the Russia / Houthi relationship

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David A Pitock's avatar

From the Kremlin

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