He didn't.

No confidential information was released outside the members of the group, even if one of the members should not have been there.

All the jabber about how this certainly was leaked so that the Houthis got everything out of the way and such ... Part of a quick game of Telephone with a lot of people in the chain of transmission.

As for knowing where the carrier was, I assume that the carrier's transponder's on or that radar has it pretty much determined, both momentum *and* location.

What the holy hell? .

I assure you this is not an amusing story about a fun game.
And our concerns are most certainly not jabber.

The entire point is that the signal chat was quite hackable.
Our enemies, including the Houthis could have obtained this and other messages.

In fact it is most likely our enemies have already figured out that the highest level of US Govt
have classified discussion on personal unsecured lines.

Anyone who has served in the US military knows this puts them in grave danger.
I hope no one you care about is ever in this horrific situation.

The Signal app is not secured and neither are the cell phones being used. When, as here, you cannot know if classified information has been compromised, you must assume that it has.

If any service member had transmitted or discussed classified information on Signal, they would get the long-tour at Fort Leavenworth.

About what you said, there is no way to be sure of that. It was basically an unsecure line, and there are many ways to listen. Even the reporter's phone could have been hacked, and that would have done it, and he'd probably never know.

It's been a long time, what was it, Essential Elements of Friendly Information EEFI. We were told never to discuss classified information on the phone, not even to talk around it. Using cute code words and hints aren't that hard to figure out, and an enemy can use the communications of several people to piece together classified information, so NEVER do it. Period.

And what they did was worse.

They were using an unsecure communication channel. Anyone in the world could have intercepted those communications while they were happening.

to what makes this a titanic level security breach. The issue isn't Goldberg saw it, the issue is they were using Signal, a totally unsecure communication channel where every word in that chat was susceptible to being intercepted by nefarious actors anywhere in the world - exposing US classified information to effectively everyone in the world.

Both in the military.

Kid #1: I love it when the president and his cabinet act like we aren't even real people.

Kid#2: as a private I was taught and tested on how to handle secret info. Every promotion since then I have to take the class again, to include my new level of clearance. Even I know, you only use secure lines.

"Hey, I found your post and one reply says “As one reply says “As for knowing where the carrier was, I assume that the carrier's transponder's on or that radar has it pretty much determined, both momentum and location”. That statement reflects a rather large ignorance about carrier operations and specifically EMCON (emission control) operating status. I can assure you the carrier would be operating “dark”. Carrier pilots don’t need homing pigeons to get home, and the Battle Group ships can provide all the defensive radar coverage needed. Just saying…"

What the holy hell is this rationale? Do you not get the ‘should not have been there’ part of the problem?

I wonder if this will make people not want to serve on top of everything else.

I need all the been there/done that/real world accounts I can lay my hands on!!!

MUCH APPRECIATED 🫡

for not using the proper military term.

It is clear from the context what he was referring to by the phrase "war plan."

lean on about technical terminology around assault weapons, etc., on the absurd gun issue. Can’t beat em, deflect! That’s their strategy — shoot the messenger.

It was possible someone was reporting on the location of the target.

their personal phones.

It's a guarantee that they have been targeted by every foreign and domestic spy organization for insertion of spyware. As we've all read Pegasus and other insertion techniques are undetectable and don't even need the dumb-ass owning the phone to do anything.

Since most of the high-level intelligence has already been spilled by trump, musk, and the doge spy group it might not matter too much anymore.

It might also be reasonable to assume that on-board intelligence gathering and processing equipment is compromised. I'm talking about naval, aircraft, land-based military installations, and possibly satellites.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the Repubs started trying to hang THIS on her, too.

That no damage to the mission or those participating in it would come once he blew the whistle.
However....
In the course of the review of "the foul", it is obvious there was a lot of OPSEC compromise and especially potential high level asset compromises to a hostile foreign power.
Who knows what other potentially classified conversations and "chat briefings" held on Signal by this group of morons were monitored or hacked into, especially since a few of them are known to be friendly to Russian interests.
Aggregation of "unclassified" or lower level of clearance information is just as harmful to National Security - like letting the GRU or PRC agents walk into the SCIF and sit down in the back for a cuppa while the Brass and NSA are sitting around the table discussing and projecting defensive technology and strategies for NATO and Taiwan.

I work in Defense Aerospace R&D. For 20 of those years, I was a flight test engineer, working on defense aerospace R&D flight test programs. If I had openly discussed any othose programs at the level of detail in those SIgnal messages, I would have had my clearance revoked, been fired, and MAYBE even prosecuted. This is THAT reckless.

Hell, we could discuss very broad schedules, much less minute by minute plans for flight test events, much less actual combat operations.

And the idea of doing that over a commercial app? Insanity.