"Everyone on that group chat, including the Vice-President, the Director of National Intelligence, the National Security Advisor, and the Secretary of State, knew that what they were doing was against the rules, the guidance, and the law. But they were doing what they were doing, I would suggest, for a reason: precisely because it allowed them or their colleagues to compromise the rights of Americans."
"Using Signal enables American authorities to violate the rights of Americans. Signal is attractive not because it is secure with respect to foreign adversaries, which it is not, but because it is secure with respect to American citizens and American judges. The autodelete function, which Mike Waltz was using, violates the law."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #Signal #LawandOrder #rights
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/signalgate-violating-national-security
"If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #LawandOrder #fascism #authoritarianism
https://bsky.app/profile/timothysnyder.bsky.social/post/3ll5rxk57tk2t
