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Francis McInerney's avatar

Your level-headed analyses are really helpful. Thanks.

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Amanda Chapman's avatar

The worrying thing is that it is believable at all.

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home2zoo's avatar

Thank you for all your research!!

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Danielle Clark De Bisschop's avatar

I looked at Der Spiegel online and couldn't find anything at all except that 2 spies were arrested. Indeed fake fabricated news

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Michael D. Sellers's avatar

Yeah, and Der Spiegel woudl be all over it if there the phone number thing had been acknowledged by German authorities, since they were the ones that broke the story about all the places on the internet where the phone number was available. It's still remotely possible that this could turn out to be true but I give it low probability at this point.

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Niah Susan Karpen's avatar

I’m inclined to believe Hegseth’s Signalgate controversy is being utilized as a springboard for disinformation. There is so much confusion and distrust being generated by this administration that our adversaries can literally have a party with the opportunities presented to them. Good call, Michael.

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jpickle777's avatar

MS, I'd be interested in your analysis of Trump's reported dinner invitation to those who own the most of his recently created cryptocurrency, especially whether this latest pitch has national security implications.

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Michael D. Sellers's avatar

Yeah, I'll look into that. Pretty egregious pay to play moment, but could be security issues too...

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Hi Hi's avatar

Typo: search "proviing".

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Terry Trent's avatar

Considering that DOGE data dumps from various American agencies, perhaps all agencies, were traced to Russia. That Trump had a fax machine in storage with his stolen US intelligence documents, I am thinking here that it’s only a matter of time until we all see the stunning and widespread betrayal to our entire country wrought by this malignant human being, we have Kabuki Theatre occurring everywhere around us, and all of us are considered “American Vermin”.

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Old Uncle Dave's avatar

Pete Hegseth's personal phone number has been publicly accessible on various platforms, including WhatsApp, Facebook, and even a fantasy sports website,

https://newrepublic.com/post/194447/pete-hegseth-signal-phone-number

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Zoo's avatar

He might be, but I doubt he'd be that stupid to attach his actual name to a Russian email account. Thanks for looking into it.

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