Comment by aucisson_masque
8 months ago
How is trump staff using signal for classified military actions different from Clinton use of private email account ?
Back then he said she should be put in jail but now he is downplaying it. How can Americans take this guy seriously is beyond my mind.
I would argue that at least Signal is end-to-end encrypted. By default, email is not.
Now, how secure and backdoor-proof that encryption is, is an other story..
Encryption doesn't really help when you add "random" people to your group ..
Also, I haven't followed the email thing, but emails are by design insecure, so one should hope stuff like this was not discussed over emails (regardless server..)
Plus the stuff in those emails weren't even really dangerous to the well being of th country or military unlike if the Russians/iranians go their hand on notice of an imminent attack on the Houthis with lots of details on the attack and strikes
People are focusing too much on accountability that will likely never happen. This is Trump 2.0. People knew exactly what they were getting and they voted him back into office anyways.
Perhaps a better answer is to separate accountability from the executive branch, possibly:
* Provide journalistic publication businesses super first amendment protections that cannot be restricted by a president, but news sources that contain opinion pieces separate from witness testimony and/or third party expert analysis as entertainment, thus restricted from journalistic venues.
* Transfer the justice department to congress. The president can still appoint the attorney general. The president should have no ability to determine criteria or persons for investigation or denial thereof.
For whatever reason norms/laws just don’t apply to Trump. He’s above the law; it’s baffling.
Yes exactly. Not sure why either. But laws do not apply to him, they never have, and they never will. He knows that, too.
The reason is he’s positioned himself perfectly to have shared benefit and shared destruction in many other’s incentive structures.
It's not baffling. He just thinks that laws don't apply to him.
To be fair the Supreme Court just gave him an out to all but the most heinous crimes conducted as "official acts". He can do almost anything he wants and not worry about going to prison, and he can pardon all of his underlings.
Sure, I’m not baffled that he think that, I’m baffled that society allows it.