The White House said in a stmnt that it was "aware of the cyber security incident at #Smarsh" but didn't offer comment on its use of the platform. #State didn't respond. The #SecretService said #TeleMessage products had been used "by a small subset of Secret Service employees" & that it was reviewing the situation. #FEMA said in an email that it had "no evidence" that its info had been compromised. It didn't respond when sent copies of internal FEMA msgs.

Reuters identified >60 unique govt users of the messaging platform #TeleMessage in a cache of #leaked #data provided by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a US nonprofit whose mission is to archive #hacked & leaked documents in the public interest. The trove included material from disaster responders, #customs ofcls, several US diplomatic staffers, at least 1 #WhiteHouse staffer & members of the #SecretService.

BTWs this was the post. So threatening! #Trump is a weakling.

#SecretService spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, in a statement, said, “The Secret Service vigorously investigates anything that can be taken as a potential threat against our protectees.”

“We are aware of the social media posts by the former FBI Director [#JamesComey] & we take rhetoric like this very seriously,” Guglielmi said.

“He knew exactly what that meant,” #Trump said in an interview w/ FauxNews, a day after the #DHS & the #SecretService opened an investigation into Comey’s Instagram post.

“A child knows what that meant. If you’re the FBI director & you don’t know ... that meant ‘assassination,’” Trump said.

[BS I didn’t learn what 86 meant until I started waiting tables in HS]

@gimulnautti @randahl

You won't believe what I heard in the latest shared #ClassifiedSignalChat —

1. #Trump has ordered that planning for HIS funeral pageantry must begin immediately.

2. Particular generosity be shown to ensure that his is the most magnificent of all funerals hitherto, and that it clearly upstages that of #PopeFrancis'.

3. #UnitedStates #SecretService must adopt a new uniform that matches the clownish colors of #Vatican security personnel.

https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/112652484089581109

Elon Musk’s private security detail gets deputized by #USMarshals Service
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/20/politics/elon-musk-private-security-deputized-marshals-service/

" #Musk, the #tech ... [South African immigrant] & ally of #DonaldTrump, is not eligible to have a US #SecretService detail – meaning members of his personal security detail were limited in what they could do in #WashingtonDC.
Now that members have been deputized, they... could be authorized to carry #weapons on federal grounds."

The next day, #Hurricane visited the White House for the final time. Hurricane’s former #SecretService colleagues presented him with a plaque with his name on it & an American flag. Mirarchi declined to say whether Hurricane was euthanized, but after the White House visit, Mirarchi said he & about a dozen of his former colleagues gathered around Hurricane as he died.

But Mirarchi could tell this month that Hurricane’s days were short-lived. On Feb 11, #Hurricane flew on an American flag-themed Southwest Airlines plane from Colorado to Baltimore, where #SecretService members who worked with Hurricane greeted him outside his gate. Mirarchi rolled Hurricane in a wagon because he struggled to walk.

Mirarchi said he struggled to work without #Hurricane, so he retired in 2017 after working w/the #SecretService for more than a decade. Mirarchi said he found another purpose: He wanted other retired K-9s to receive free veterinary care, so he founded his nonprofit, K9 Hurricane’s Heroes. He & Hurricane traveled the world for #charity events, where Hurricane played w/children. Mirarchi partnered w/Kinetic Dog Food to make a bacon-flavored treat called Hurricane Bites.

The suspect, 23-year-old Dominic Adesanya, was taken to a hospital with injuries from a dog bite. #Hurricane’s body was covered in bruises, bumps & blood, Mirarchi said, & he was taken to a veterinarian. Mirarchi said he worried Hurricane would die of his injuries.

The next day, the #SecretService posted photos of Hurricane & Jordan on social media & said a veterinarian cleared them to work. But Hurricane was never as nimble again, Mirarchi said.

On Oct 22, 2014, #Hurricane was 6 yrs old when he spotted a man jumping the White House fence. The intruder fought off another #SecretService canine, Jordan, when he was about halfway across the North Lawn. But then Hurricane, who weighed more than 60 pounds, charged in for a brawl that lasted a few seconds before Hurricane knocked the man to the ground.

#Hurricane, who had a black coat & brown eyes, joined the #SecretService’s K-9 unit in November 2012 & was paired with Mirarchi. Hurricane underwent more than 4 months of training at the Rowley Training Center in Laurel, MD, learning to bite hard, jump high & react quickly to security threats. When Hurricane was promoted to guarding the White House, he jumped & spun in excitement from the back seat each time Mirarchi drove onto the property.