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0 pointschrisco2551y ago0 comments

Those are just accusations from a 3rd party agency. They have no way of knowing if Ratcliffe archived the messages before deleting. Signal has been approved since the Biden admin. It was most likely already distributed with the Telemessage feature.

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ceejayoz1y ago

“the agency said in a court filing”

The agency is the CIA, to a court, saying the messages are gone.

UnreachableCode1y ago

> Signal has been approved since the Biden admin. It was most likely already distributed with the Telemessage feature.

How do you know this? Also I would not consider this a “feature”. We should assume they’re different apps, insofar as Telemessage can add whatever they please to the source

firesteelrain1y ago

"One of the things I was briefed on very early … was by the CIA records management folks about the use of Signal as a permissible work use," Ratcliffe said during a March 25 Senate Intelligence Committee hearing (see 45:05). "It is. That is a practice that preceded the current administration to the Biden administration."

https://www.c-span.org/program/senate-committee/dni-director...

ceejayoz1y ago

Exhaling air through flappy mouth and throat parts is also permissible in the CIA.

That doesn’t mean you won’t get in trouble if you flap them in a way that says “we bomb x at y o’clock” where uncleared people can hear.

firesteelrain1y ago

Sure, but that’s the point-Signal is permitted; it’s the content that matters, not the medium. Ratcliffe's testimony confirms it’s been standard practice across administrations. It’s already approved in IC circles despite your claims it harms national security.

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ceejayoz1y ago

“the agency said in a court filing”

The agency is the CIA, to a court, saying the messages are gone.

UnreachableCode1y ago

> Signal has been approved since the Biden admin. It was most likely already distributed with the Telemessage feature.

How do you know this? Also I would not consider this a “feature”. We should assume they’re different apps, insofar as Telemessage can add whatever they please to the source

firesteelrain1y ago

https://www.c-span.org/program/senate-committee/dni-director...

ceejayoz1y ago

Exhaling air through flappy mouth and throat parts is also permissible in the CIA.

That doesn’t mean you won’t get in trouble if you flap them in a way that says “we bomb x at y o’clock” where uncleared people can hear.

firesteelrain1y ago

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