PDB Situation Report | March 29th, 2025: Signal Gate Fallout & Iran’s Hidden Hand in Yemen
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Welcome to the PDB Situation Report. I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get ourselves briefed. We're starting today's show with the latest on Signalgate. You knew it had to have a catchy name. That's the stunning blunder that exposed sensitive national security chatter during the early strikes against the Houthis. Retired Army Colonel John Mills, former director of cybersecurity policy at the Pentagon, will join us to break that all down. Later in the show, U.S. strikes on the Houthis are ramping up. But how much of this fight is actually being run out of Tehran? Now, Ali Reza Jafrizadeh, Deputy Director of the Washington Office for the National Council of Resistance of Iran, can't put that on a bumper sticker. Well, he says Iran's regime is pulling the strings. He joins us with the evidence. But first, today's Situation Report Spotlight. The Trump administration is facing serious questions after a major communications blunder now known as Signalgate.
During the early stages of U.S. strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, senior national security officials, and there were a lot of them, including the vice president and secretary of defense, were coordinating in a private Signal group chat. Now, if you don't know what Signal is, it's a commercial app. It's considered to be somewhat secure and discreet, certainly more so than an open line. Unfortunately, during the course of this chat, someone mistakenly added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg. Okay, enter a journalist. Sensitive details about the strikes, including targets and timing, were shared before the mistake was caught. The incident, as you might imagine, has sparked concerns about operational security, what we would call OPSEC, and discipline at the highest levels. Joining us now is retired Army Colonel John Mills, former director of cybersecurity policy at the Department of Defense. perfect guy to talk to about Signalgate. Now, you can check him out on Substack at Colonel Rhett John.
You can also grab his excellent book, and that's called War Against the Deep State. If you don't already have it on your shelf, go out and get it, all right? If there's a bookstore near you. I don't know if we still have bookstores. John, welcome to the show, man. Hey, Mike. Always an honor to be on this show with you. Thank you so much. That's very kind of you to say. I would like you, if you wouldn't mind, to write that down and send it as a note to my producers. Tell me what you think about Signalgate.
Well, I don't attach the word gate to it. I was one of the key people who had to deal with Hillary Clinton. And it wasn't just Hillary. It was a pervasive, intentional crime. criminal rico effort by the entire obama team obama biden team to evade the government records act and use their personal cell phones and actually when they were doing it uh even there was early instant messaging inside behind the firewall that uh Hey, guess what? We weren't capturing that as part of the Government Records Act. So, this was intentional and pervasive. They were intentionally trying to get around the Government Records Act. It was a criminal conspiracy, okay? And as opposed to this, and I'll go into a lot of detail and enumerated elements, but as opposed to this situation where we had a successful operation, some very high level Prattle was exposed by Goldberg. The operation was successful. Everything was after the fact.
I've had to deal with a number of spills or supposed spills. Everything I've seen so far, nothing amounts to a classified spill. So, I reject. This is pure street theater. They, in their attempt to catch up where number 47 and team have run over them and is 100 miles down the road and they're still trying to figure out what happened. They're trying. We got them this time. Well, if they're going to die on this hill, they need to pace themselves. There's going to be a lot more hills to die on. And this is not it. And, you know, Norm Eisen, was it Norm Eisen? He is the most craven
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