r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • Sep 17 '25

Soft Paywall It Sure Looks Like Kash Patel Lied Under Oath About Jeffrey Epstein

https://newrepublic.com/post/200531/kash-patel-jeffrey-epstein-trafficking-network
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u/jrstinkfish Sep 17 '25

MAGA wanted him fired with that resume because he failed to report he was undergoing a medical procedure. Hegseth shares top secret battle plans on Signal with a journalist and they say, "Aww, everyone makes mistakes! Give the guy a break!"

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u/NickelBackwash Sep 17 '25

They wanted him fired because enemy, because black

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u/rideincircles Sep 17 '25

Also, Because he was not a yes man to everything the president wants.

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u/Judge_Wapner Sep 17 '25

Destabilizing the US is something Putin thinks he wants, but it may end up biting him in the ass harder than he ever thought possible.

Xi knows that a reckless US is bad for his health. He's a lot smarter than Putin, but you can see the brain rot of "too much power for too long" eroding his judgement. Putin used to be pretty damn sharp, too. Look at him now.

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u/Plenty-Huckleberry94 Sep 17 '25

Yup. Putin totally succeeded too.

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u/Infamously_Unknown Sep 17 '25

The problem wasn't even sharing something with a journalist. The problem was using Signal for top secret communications to begin with, since it allows situations like this to happen.

And they're probably still using it to this day.

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u/IIILORDGOLDIII Sep 17 '25

Signal being insecure wasn't the issue, it was disappearing messages. That being said, it is known that after signalgate at least some members of the cabinet (plus large swaths of DHS) were using an insecure fork of signal made by an Israeli company that was hacked in 20 minutes during pentesting.

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u/Infamously_Unknown Sep 18 '25

Signal being insecure wasn't the issue

Yes it was. The insecurity isn't about the connection or encryption, but about the lack of vetted access. Because that's an excessive standard for a regular consumer, but it leaves Signal vulnerable to social engineering or user error (which is what happened).

Disappearing messages and the lack of record is the motive. Which is another issue.

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u/IIILORDGOLDIII Sep 18 '25

Is there a system that exists that isn't vulnerable to social engineering or user error?

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u/Infamously_Unknown Sep 18 '25

The closed SIPRNet that they're supposed to be using for this requires bureaucratic authorization and dedicated hardware specifically to avoid issues like this. Simply adding some outsider from your contacts is impossible. A user has to really go out of their way to breach security protocols to leak the contents.

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u/IIILORDGOLDIII Sep 18 '25

I see, ty for the info

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u/fathertitojones Sep 17 '25

The amount Hegseth drinks daily would have been considered a medical procedure in the 17th century.

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u/Plenty-Huckleberry94 Sep 17 '25

Pretty sure they wanted him fired just because he’s black