Hacker News Reader

Comment by nonrandomstring | Hacker News Reader

This is a smoking gun. I'm a little shocked at how little MSM coverage this is getting and the moral gymnastics some commentators are performing to lend a veneer of innocence to this. It's an incident on par with 1950s Cambridge ring [0] and I cannot understand why an investigation team from the Pentagon are not all over this kicking-in doors and taking names?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Five

View on HN

There will be coverage, but it has little point. The information network in America is Centre, left and centre right orgs, and then there is the Hermetically sealed Fox and related ecosystem.

So even if 2/3rds of America decide this is too much, they aren’t sufficient to shift what is covered in the idea economy and the political economy.

I just found out there’s even a book that did the ground work to make this case, in 2018. (Network propaganda.)

This is the prime reason I recommend all democracies look beyond their current leaders and grapple with the structural issues caused by capture of the media ecosystem.

Do note - this isn’t an issue of bias. There’s a protectionist economy on the right, where reality is whatever storyline they need to share.

It's hilarious how the bastions of the free press were all over her emails but suddenly become almost mum at this

Then of course they are surprised nobody takes them seriously anymore

At this point I wonder if it's fear. They were able to cover the Clinton story because they knew no harm would come to them - the government wouldn't prosecute the press. But these stories, under this government, is the sort of thing where it could end up on the wrong side of an unchecked tyrant who is increasingly vocal about their desire to ignore due process.

The media companies ate so well and grew so fat covering the rise of fascism they didn't think what would happen when it finally gained power.

Of course it is. They’re all wondering who the first reporter is that is going to get disappeared to El Salvador.

Notably, Krebs just had his security clearance revoked by Trump & Co. 12 days ago for posing "risks".

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr...

Nope. It's a different, unrelated Krebs

The Cybersec one is Brian Krebs

Oh wow - TIL! I wish I could edit or delete the above. Anyway thanks for correcting me.

I mean it is not hard to see federal employees leaking data just to spite musks' project.

You do not need russian attacks either, people in US leaking all sort of data every year.

Fear isn't the answer. Unionizing and supporting each other is. That's why they are going after the NLRB and unions.

If I were a journalist I don't know how much I would trust a union to stop ICE from pulling me out of bed in the middle of the night.

It's not about your union stopping them from pulling you out of bed, it's about what happens after that. Rumeysa Ozturk, the student who was abducted in Massachusetts was a member of a union and her union immediately sprang into action. Part of the reason this was national news so quickly was because her union took to the streets.

There is a LOT of stuff to cover right now.

I think a part of it is simply that the space is absolutely flooded and the public becomes almost numb to it: This administration is so absolutely rampant with criminality, constitution shredding, and just rank incompetence that reports of more of the same just doesn't trend. I mean, it's similar to the fact that Trump lies about everything constantly -- even the most meaningless facts like his height and weight -- and soon it just isn't noteworthy that he continues lying about everything constantly. When Trump is caught in an obvious lie, which is basically a daily occurrence, he doesn't apologize, he doubles down, and this is his super power, at least among his incredibly stupid fans and base.

"But her emails" was when Hillary using a private server was actually so exceptional it was like the singular thing. Trump's crew of misfits and clowns and self-dealing grifters have turned the government into a circus. They're all insider trading, launching shitcoins, turning the WH lawn into a pathetic infomercial while your commerce secretary -- Howard "Used Car Salesman" Lutnick -- is pushing stocks.

> I cannot understand why an investigation team from the Pentagon are not all over this kicking-in doors and taking names?

The same Pentagon, which is current run by this person? https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-signal-chat-houthis-attac...

Because the Pentagon has the same boss as the people conducting these activities.

Well, kind of. There are people there who don't care about that.

> I cannot understand why an investigation team from the Pentagon are not all over this kicking-in doors and taking names?

As others have said but I can't reply to, it's because the Pentagon is run by a traitor and they stop any investigations under threat of dismissal.

But I hope people are keeping notes and will come forward, so that all of these people will face the consequences.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com