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On the Day He Was Fired as National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz Used an Israeli App to Archive Signal Messages (www.dropsitenews.com)

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Jason Paladino
May 02, 2025

"During Wednesday’s meeting for Trump’s cabinet, Mike Waltz checked the app on his phone, using what appeared to be Signal. As news broke that Waltz had lost his job as National Security Advisor, images from the cabinet meeting circulated widely online on Thursday. Upon closer inspection of the photos, it turned out that Waltz was not using the traditional Signal app. He appeared to be using an archiving app made by Israeli firm TeleMessage, which sells companion apps meant to enable archiving messages."

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Of course lol

[–] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Probably to cover his own ass.

Otherwise, given his profile and outrage in the news…why?

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this plus the revelations that the biden administration did nothing to pressure netanyahu to stop the genocide makes it clear that the american government is subservient to the isreali government.

[–] Aceivan@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It really doesn't

"israel" doesn't need to control the US government for them to have a shared interest in genocide, colonialism, militarism. "Israel" has serious undue influence, but that functions as an internal discipline tool in the US establishment just as much as it serves "israel's" interests. It's tolerated, but ultimately the US holds most of the cards