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JohnMakinyesterday at 4:32 PM7 repliesview on HN

This administration's op-sec has been consistently "barney fife" levels of incompetence.


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kstrauseryesterday at 5:18 PM

Leave Fife out of it. His heart was in the right place, at least. Also, his boss made sure he was unarmed.

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winddudeyesterday at 4:39 PM

this administrations competence on anything and everything has been a kid eating glue

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mcs5280yesterday at 4:46 PM

Pretty sure that's a feature, not a bug

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6stringmercyesterday at 8:29 PM

When I saw mention it was in context of a “contracting” type set of info / document I actually chuckled - I spent a decade in procurement and sales for high stakes contracts. Incompetent person has no idea how to manage a procurement and goes online. Basically this is a 2026 version of an inept executive bashing “what is an RFP” into a search engine from 2007.

toomuchtodoyesterday at 5:04 PM

The trick is how to weaponize the incompetence against them.

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0xyyesterday at 6:11 PM

And when the CCP compromised the law enforcement portal for every American ISP, stealing info on 80% of Americans, including both the Kamala and Trump campaigns, under the previous admin it was rock solid op-sec, presumably.

Or when the previous admin leaked classified Iran attack plans from the Pentagon, so bad that they didn't even know whether they were hacked or not.

You can at least pretend to make a technical argument over a political one.

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stronglikedanyesterday at 5:19 PM

It's been the same with every administration, unfortunately. It's just a side effect of such an unnecessarily big goverment.

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