I cannot fathom the amount of intelligence information the US is no longer getting from basically everywhere. I’d also bet that there’s a lot more misinformation being passed to the US now, and the post-truth landscape that these chodes have created makes it harder to prevent that.
this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2025
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My exact thoughts. I cannot imagine any other country sharing accurate intelligence with the US except on a quid pro quo basis. Even then, I wouldn't give the US highly accurate data.
You'd be stupid to assume it would be safe in their hands.
Sad but true.
Anyone member when DOGE was doing their thing at the NLRB and that whistleblower said that they were getting logged into from Russian IP addresses immediately after being granted access?
Yeah, whole ass government's systems are compromised. Russia hacked the election for Trump and Musk in a quid pro quo deal to keep them both out of prison.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
This sort of institutional trust is incredibly hard to build back up. It boggles the mind what has been lost here
Why, just because he’s a demented criminal liar and puppet of russia?
You'd think they'd have hit back, hard, after the first obvious sellout of american informants under trump the last go round. I would have put in place safeguards to never let americans have intelligence data again, without serious capitulations.
Not that big of a deal really, should be super easy to get a signal invite from the sow.
It’s a crying shame. We once had perhaps the best intelligence agency in the world. Now, I wouldn’t buy stock in it. You’d just be wasting your money. The smart ones have left for the private sector to put their skills to more practical use.