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The political news you need to know, in 10 minutes or less. Hosted by David Chalian. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.4 days ago - The Retired J.P. Morgan Executive Tracking Trump’s Deportation Flights
The Trump administration’s plan to dust off the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was in the works long before March 15. But the precise timing was hazy. Immigration attorneys went to federal court that morning to try to block the government from using the extraordinary wartime authority, which allows deportations without due process. There were few signs that the White House was about to use the law to send planeloads of Venezuelans to a prison complex in El Salvador.The first person to alert the public that the flights would actually take place was not an official or a lawyer or a journalist, but a retired J.P. Morgan executive living in Ohio named Tom Cartwright. “TWO HIGHLY UNUSUAL ICE flights showing up now from Harlingen to El Salvador,” he wrote on social media, noting that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had taken that route, flying out of a city in southern… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.5 days ago - Why Trump Won’t ‘Produce a Scalp’ After the Signal DebacleIn the telling of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, he was only executing his duties when he shared plans about a forthcoming attack on Yemen in an unclassified group chat on the Signal messaging app. “My job,” he told reporters during a swing through Hawaii, “is to provide updates in real time.”The implication: Nothing to see here.The reaction inside the Pentagon to Hegseth’s communications—disclosed this week by The Atlantic after the editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was inadvertently added to the chat—told a different story, as security specialists raced to reiterate rules about the proper channels for classified information.“Incidents like this make my job significantly harder,” a Department of Defense operations security, or OPSEC, official told us this week, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity. “When senior leadership disregards OPSEC and security protocols without consequences, it undermines the work we do to enforce these standards.”[Read: Trump… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.6 days ago
- It’s Not Easy Being (Marjorie Taylor) GreeneWhere have you gone, Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Big Bird?In a more innocent time, the hallowed puppets of Sesame Street were recurring characters in congressional debates about public broadcasting. They served a vital and somewhat quaint Kabuki function: Whenever a politician questioned whether PBS or NPR should continue to receive government funding, public broadcast advocates predictably trotted out their furry or feathered friends to disarm the bullies and remind everyone how beloved these iconic creatures are. Especially by kids. Remember the kids!Sadly, Messrs. Elmo, Monster, and Bird were nowhere to be seen on Capitol Hill today. They would not have fit in, anyway, as the proceedings in a crowded basement-level hearing room of the Capitol Visitor Center were not sweet, accepting, or the least bit neighborly.[Tom Junod: My friend Mr. Rogers]Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, had invited the head of PBS, Paula Kerger, and of NPR, Katherine Maher,… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
So, about that Signal chat.On Monday, shortly after we published a story about a massive Trump-administration security breach, a reporter asked the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, why he had shared plans about a forthcoming attack on Yemen on the Signal messaging app. He answered, “Nobody was texting war plans. And that’s all I have to say about that.”At a Senate hearing yesterday, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe, were both asked about the Signal chat, to which Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, was inadvertently invited by National Security Adviser Michael Waltz. “There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal group,” Gabbard told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee.Ratcliffe said much the same: “My communications, to be clear, in the Signal message group were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - A Rare Moment of Bipartisan DisbeliefBut really, who among us hasn’t inadvertently shared secret plans about an imminent military strike on Yemen with the editor in chief of The Atlantic?Wait, what?Occasionally, Washington gets hit with one of those stories. The kind that halts the busy company town in its divided tracks. Everyone seems to unite, at least briefly, in disbelief. A single dominant topic comes along and crushes everything, and all the rest is suddenly beside the point. It rarely happens in this day and age of competing social-media ecosystems. But yesterday was one of those days. Even Elon Musk could barely crack the headlines.The group gobsmacking began shortly after noon, when The Atlantic dropped a bombshell story headlined “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.” Spoiler alert: The story is about how the Trump administration accidentally texted the author its war plans.You’ve likely heard about this by now. Said author—The Atlantic’s editor… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
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