Sean Spicer Reportedly Forced Staffers to Submit to Phone Checks to Snuff Out Leaks
Source: Mediaite
According to a report by Politico today, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer is looking to snuff out leaks coming from the White House to the press by having staffers submit to security checks.
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Upon entering Spicers second floor office, staffers were told to dump their phones on a table for a phone check, to prove they had nothing to hide.
Per the report, Spicer consulted with White House counsel Don McGahn before confronting the staffers. At the meeting, he told them that using protected messaging apps was a violation. He also warned all those attending the meeting of more problems if news of this leaked out to the media. Which, of course, it did.
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NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Does he really think that a leaker would use a work phone? Any self-respecting leaker would use an alternate phone, preferably one of those pay as you go things. If they don't,they're too stupid to live.
Splicer (sic) is getting desperate.
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)Botany
(70,281 posts)It is not like you can just walk into a store and buy a phone and prepaid
phone plan in about 1,000 locations.
BTW Spicer is selling the spin ..... the problem is the leaks and leakers
not that Trump and Putin worked to rig the election.
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)in Spicy's jacket pocket.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)or send an email from home address: "I need to tell you something, let's meet for lunch."
pkdu
(3,977 posts)#45 does this with tweets every other day ( deletes them)
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)if they weren't in charge of our country.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Not keeping any recordings or records of anything. Scary shit, but the leakers are probably keeping better records than anyone in a professional capacity to do so.
Delphinus
(11,808 posts)how can anyone ever convict them of anything?
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)It's a game they are playing with us at every possible level. Down to how they spread lies and then ding the media for reporting them. Ugh.
yardwork
(61,408 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Who the hell wants to work in this WH environment.
Hekate
(90,189 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Bannon is the greatest threat to America's former democracy.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)True Dough
(17,090 posts)Loved that series!
neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)roscoeroscoe
(1,369 posts)It was the strawberries! 🤡
narnian60
(3,510 posts)Stuart G
(38,359 posts)...an incredible and wonderful comparison...to this "leak shit".......oh...and about the "leak shit"...we (the world) did not find out about..Deep Throat..till after Nixon had fallen and resigned...
perhaps there is a team of ...leak shitters ...in Trump's group... Will they catch them all?...
what will be the punishment?...Will one get away?
when will we hear the end of "leak shit".............well stay tuned to...........
tomorrow's next episode ....."leak shit"...............
.............................same time, same station.
Stuart G
(38,359 posts)could be............are you ready????....1,2,3..............PAY PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)spouses calling spouses group. Someone should tell them to watch Casino with DeNiro to know how to communicate under the radar. There are probably so many ways it would surprise everyone.
Stuart G
(38,359 posts)You mean someone could ....now I am holding this back....could......someone.......
...............write a letter to inform someone of something?
Nawwwwwwwwwwwwwww.....that is impossible.........letters are only on computers......
thank you ...
lunatica
(53,410 posts)And the messages could be, get this, written in code!
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Then create a 'draft' that you don't actually 'send' ... then give someone else the password, where they can then view the 'draft' and delete ... unless you have access to the server itself (should require a subpoena), or do IP packet sniffing (to capture the transfer over the internet when it's either saved, or viewed) which is resource intensive esp. if you don't who is doing it, and where they're doing it from ... So, while not foolproof, it avoids having a formal 'email' ... passing through normal 'email delivery' channels, which are easier to monitor ...
lunatica
(53,410 posts)There aren't fingers and toes enough to count the ways.
WheelWalker
(8,943 posts)luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)rampant paranoia. I love it!
wordpix
(18,652 posts)the cabinet!!! Woot
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)management style. Yup,the beatings will continue until your attitude improves. Yup,way to go Buddy.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)This is why they will never get anywhere worth the war in ISIS. They think they can just strongarm their way through everything. Smdh..
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Might is right for the most part means Failure.
janx
(24,128 posts)"Spicer also warned the group of more problems if news of the phone checks and the meeting about leaks was leaked to the media. It's not the first time that warnings about leaks have promptly leaked. The State Department's legal office issued a four-page memo warning of the dangers of leaks -- that memo was immediately posted by the Washington Post."
Edited to add--This is an excerpt from the original article at Politico.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)You just can't make this shit up. VEEP has nothing on this bunch.
janx
(24,128 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)That's My Bush!
It ripped the hell out of George!
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)This is the most incompetent gang of belligerent assholes I've ever seen working in a so-called "professional" environment. They are an absolute embarrassment before the world.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)badhair77
(4,191 posts)I'm having McCarthy flashbacks. This is getting scarier with each day.
janx
(24,128 posts)Trump wrote in a recent tweet, referring to leakers.
japple
(9,772 posts)to really use their imagination! Stuffed documents into her pantyhose and sneaked them out!
Qutzupalotl
(14,230 posts)That must really bother them.
Jeroen
(1,061 posts)Woudn't it be funny if it turned out that Vlad is the leajker? I can imagine him and his "cohorts" listening into the WH conversations, and laughing their asses off!! Bannon might have planted the bug for them.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Planning meeting with White House communication staffers.
"When I go out and lie, you must keep secret! You work for me, not the American people!"
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)Which of course is in direct violation of federal record keeping requirements and an illegal attemp to avoid FOIA disclosures.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)encrypted, messages that self delete, they're not recording phone conversations with pootie.....etc.....they are also using the RNC server for emails and gee, I'm sure there is more....brain now overloaded. someone else fill in the rest.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,009 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,495 posts)is an SNL gift that just keeps giving.
barbtries
(28,702 posts)have burn phones they keep at home. soon thugs will be knocking at their doors i suppose. i fantasize that some of them realize that they are in the front line to keep democracy in the USA alive.
Yavin4
(35,354 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)I wonder how long it will take for SNL to put this skit together...?
dgibby
(9,474 posts)Kablooie
(18,571 posts)harun
(11,348 posts)dalton99a
(81,065 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Who are completely clueless as to how leaks are propagated.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)has those kinds of idiotic ideas, too
bora13
(860 posts)if you don't have anything to hide, comrade, then you will have nothing to worry about. DOHHH!
actually, if I were a dedicated American who was going to be subjected to device please...,
I would buy a burner phone and post, tweet and send all kinds of sweet nothings about t-rump all day long.
nothing to see here spicey. move along.
JudyM
(29,122 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,242 posts)MrScorpio
(73,626 posts)These guys are pure Loony Tunes.
Stuart G
(38,359 posts)as a member of the .."Loony Tune Fan Society"..LTFS... the society knows that the Loony Tunes are far more saner the the Dump Gang ever could conceive of.....unfortunately...there is one possible exception...
we try to keep this a secret, but there is a certain coyote ..that is indeed obsessed ..and sadly he may be..and I have a hard time saying this.................................totally loony!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.............and
as loony as anyone in the Dump Gang......perhaps that gang should contact ACME to see if they can find some useful tools to catch the leaker.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)we need a nickname for Bannon.
Stuart G
(38,359 posts)and a third could be called, "The brilliant Homer Simpson"
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Hello and duuhhh
mdbl
(4,972 posts)just wondering.
BumRushDaShow
(127,270 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)Look how that turned out for him
Rex
(65,616 posts)NOT! Morale? Probably hovering around zero and because of this stunt - another leaker emerges!
Nitram
(22,663 posts)The Keystone Cops met the Three Stooges.
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)at 2 a.m.
RandySF
(57,592 posts)The leaks from the White House, or the leaks those Russian hookers took on Trump's bed?
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)kysrsoze
(6,010 posts)yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)Keep the phone turned off while in the WH and use it only when away from the WH. Better yet, don't even take the phone into the WH, just in case Spiceman or someone else decides to go Gestapo on you. Leave it in your car or at home. Nothing you can do about it, Spiceman. Welcome to Democracy.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Like squeezing a leaky water balloon.