It has become a text chain that can be seen around the world. Democrats are calling for resignation, and the media is in stacked mode. But the real story is really what we are being told, and are we asking the right questions?

The press and Democrats have spent a decade driving a kind of message for good measure and, simply put, the Trump Maga Monolith, with the president always surrounded by people who reflexively agree with all of his positions and staff who have little role in decision-making.

What signal chat shows us is a healthy discussion of the merits, timing and consequences of military action. The fact that there is some kind of discrepancy between them or between the members of the team and the president is very good. A president needs private disagreement and sound discussion among senior leaders of all administrations to fully understand the issues and options.

The conversation was substantial and consensus. Defense Secretary Pete Hegses was the classification authority for military information shared on the app, so even if it was classified and he would have the ability to share it at his discretion, he would have the right personnel and the ability to share it at his discretion.

This is US surgical leadership, leveraging a distinct military advantage over European and Middle Eastern powers after years of assets have been used as document calculations by the Biden White House.

But the content of the text chain isn’t as much of a story as the media and Democrats would like. A bigger and more inconvenient question that you have to ask is about the signal itself.

The signal was partially established by the man named Brian Acton, After working for Yahoo in the 90s, he sold WhatsApp to Facebook for billions of dollars. He is said to have since helped the Signal Technology Foundation be discovered as a nonprofit during his time at Obama.

According to the IRS, in 2023, the Signal Technology Foundation adopted it $22 million From an anonymous source. The organization was in it Red as of 2018. Acton’s other nonprofit organizations; Acton Family Giving and Giving solidarity I will support the funds Various Radical Left Causes Includes the ACLU Foundation, the American Council on Islamic Relations, the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund, FWD.US, the Anti-Seconds Amendment Group, the American Planning Parent Federation, the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The app gained popularity among activists during the 2020 George Floyd Riot, and has since dramatically increased its use during the Biden presidency.

This is a free public app developed by leftist activists. And even now, NPR’s own Catherine Maher is Chairman of the Board For Signal Technology Foundation.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe Congressional testimony was confirmed When he took office, the app had already been uploaded to his computer.

Why is it primarily owned and run by nonprofit organizations connected to prolific left-wing donors and chaired by infamous left-wing media figures?

Let’s be clear. To install the app on the computers of senior management staff who hold the highest security clearance, the government and the Intel community had to either add up its capabilities or understand exactly how the firewalls and algorithms worked to ensure security.

It gives credibility to the idea that the federal government has long understood the system of signals.

The fact that this is an external organization linked to the left means that external forces may use the platform to spy on users.

Text chain individuals would have been given clearance to use the app for sensitive conversations by career government IT personnel or members of the Intel community when they were described about operational security when they entered the office. They would have given them plenty of information about the security of the app from the IT specialist.

There is no way for all experienced, advanced level individuals to join a chat that everyone understands to be suspicious security for that person.

They had to be told that their use was acceptable from sources from the Intel community and career government.

So is it a surveillance tool for the government or a tool for the far left?

If so, how deep will the relationship between Signal Federal and Intel communities be?

We know that the Biden administration has established a government censorship complex. We know that through Obama Operation Chalk Points, CFPB And other efforts have sought to monitor American activity in unprecedented ways.

Does the government’s use of signals are a way to concentrate taxpayer money on nonprofits, and drive it out to left-wing activists?

Is there any contractual relationship with the government of some kind? Was this there?

For now, all these officials are either surprisingly incompetent (this is very unlikely), or believe Doge is revealing the relationship between the far left and the corruption and deep state, and believes that liberal publications like the Atlantic are adhered to a text chain on military operations.

For all the talks about what was said in the text chain and whether information is properly shared, the government should investigate why the app is being used in the first place.

You may never know all the answers here, but this so-called scandal may actually work deeper. Here there is more smoke than those rising from the tile ble of those Houthi’s target. The Trump administration needs to reach its bottom. There may be little about signals similar to security, transparency, or freedom of speech.

Tom Basile is the author of Newsmax, a conservative columnist, speaker, Tough Sell: Targing The Media War in Iraq and host of Newsmax’s “Now Now,” a former Bush administration official. x Follow him at @tom_basile. For more information, please visit www.tombasile.com

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