Lowes says that the USACE’s recent actions have marginalized the Tribe’s input and compromised the integrity of the consultation process. He says it is also unclear how the Line 5 tunnel project, which provides oil and natural gas almost exclusively to Canada, fits with the intent of the Trump Administration’s Executive Order to ease energy costs on American citizens.
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“As top Trump cabinet members sent texts in a Signal group chat, CBS News analysis shows one of them, Steve Witkoff, was in Russia.”
The scandal and stupidity are fractal.
Although did we really think that Russia (and others) don’t have complete access to classified information coming in and out of the White House this administration? It seemed to be the case to some degree during Trump 1, when all the US intelligence agents and assets were being arrested and killed, but now everyone in the administration is incompetent (and totally lawless), staff have been cut, etc. so there’s no one to do things properly (or potentially even know what the procedures even are supposed to be), on top of whatever information Trump accidentally/on purpose lets slip to his buddies/handlers/random Mar a Lago guest.
After this incident, intelligence sharing with the US has got to be hitting new lows. No one can be sending the US information if they don’t want it to be released into the public.
It’s amazing seeing the messaging coming from this administration: it was real; the whole thing is a hoax; it’s not a hoax, but it’s not classified; it might have been classified, but it wasn’t a big deal because the information was sent to a random person who luckily acted responsibly; was it classified? who knows, we don’t actually know what we’re doing.
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What’s this now?
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That’s going to go over well with the judiciary, I’m sure.
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And the Democrats. (Wish I were kidding.)
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Where is the line in the sand? Where is the “bridge too far”?
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I’ve come to suspect there just isn’t one.
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I’m actually surprised they’re going this way. I would honestly have expected that they’d keep the Supreme Court and its circuits for their own show trial purposes.
Also, that would require a constitutional amendm—
Article III
Section 1
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
Oooooooh, I get it: they’re going to keep the wholly owned SCoTUS, and just abolish all the inferior federal circuits as surplus to requirements. Federal Kangaroo Courts can be established and abolished as required.
No more complaining about the 5th Circuit, because there will be no more 5th Circuit. Because there will be no appeals.
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I haven’t read the article, and I don’t think I’m going to because the idea is ridiculous, but Congress does have the power to do that. Only one court is specifically created by the Constitution, and that’s the Supreme Court. All other federal courts the Constitution gives Congress the power to create as needed. Now, doing away with federal district courts would create a teensy bit of a backlog at SCOTUS, because they would then become the only trial court for all federal lawsuits, as well as the only appeals court for all of those cases.
I owe @Catsidhe a fizzy beverage
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I’m assuming that’s a reference to General Buck Turgidson?
“Well, I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.”
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It’s ok. Putin and Trump have been through a lot together.
/S
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So “It’s ok if they Signal group chatted with a journalist listening they screwed-up and invited because it was all unclassified! yeah - that’s the ticket!” (including ahead of time battle details which would put our soldiers at risk and the name of an intelligence agent), Next-up: journalist says “OK if it’s all unclassified, I should be able to publish it all, yes?” Any bets the response will be “If you do that, you’re a traitor and will be sent to Guantanamo, because it includes classified stuff!” “but you-all just said…” “hey, speed-contradiction is like our thing!”
Journalist Considers Publishing ‘War Plans’ Texts As Trump Admin Denies They’re Classified
The journalist who was mistakenly added to a group chat of White House officials discussing plans to bomb Yemen said he is mulling whether to publish contested texts as the Trump administration attempts to downplay the story’s significance.
In his original report, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg claimed the group chat included “precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing” of American strikes, but held back giving full details amid national security fears.
Since then, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s director of national intelligence, and John Ratcliffe, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, have all claimed no classified material was shared in the Signal chat chain.
Appearing on The Bulwark’s podcast on Tuesday afternoon, Goldberg maintained “they’re wrong.”
When asked by host Tim Miller whether he could publish the texts to prove they’re wrong, or perhaps provide the messages to congressional intelligence committees, he replied: “My colleagues and I and the people who are giving us advice on this have some interesting conversations to have about this.”
“But just because they’re irresponsible with material, doesn’t mean that I’m going to be irresponsible with this material,” he added.
Goldberg continued that "maybe in the coming days, I’ll be able to let you know that, okay, I have a plan to have this material vetted publicly. But I’m not going to say that now.”
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Coming up: Tramp corners the Egyptian cotton market!
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Yeah, poor Putin had to suffer through the whole “Russia Hoax,” with people claiming Trump was beholden to him. People like the Russian state media, members of the Russian government and Putin himself… with great relish. So difficult!
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There’s. Always. A. Tweet.
(of his)
Always.
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…letting my pessimism show and express my worry that this is the opening salvo to mucking up the mid-term “blue wave” which we’re ‘all’ hoping for (588 days hence). As a self counterbalance: this particular executive order cannot stand up to any sane judicial review(!) as it simply isn’t in the national executive purview to control voter registration practices. That’s a state level remit, i’m almost certain.
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