4/4. My book "Black Earth" was all about this. I will try to write a summary tomorrow.

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

10. We are 2 months into Trump’s term and his numbers are falling. Is Trump still confident in his team’s ability to execute his vision?

11. Is Susie Wiles going to make it through this since she was on the chat and should be aware of what’s going on?

9. Are they using disappearing messages on Signal to avoid record keeping rules? Is this why they are using civilian phones for such an important conversation?

8. This is indicative of the WH operations so far - from DOGE to Signalgate to Greenland - does Congress think the WH is doing a bang-up job?

6. Do Members of the House and Senate Intel Committees think that firing just Mike Waltz is enough?

7. Did Hegseth mishandle highly classified information?

5. Witkoff was in Moscow… why did he join such a highly sensitive group on a civilian phone while INSIDE RUSSIA? Is that considered OPSEC? (The answer is no)

4. Why did no one on the National Security Team - including the Dir. of the CIA and WH COS - not STOP it and say Signal is not an appropriate tool. Why did no one check the chat to see who was on it?

2. Why did Hegseth copy war planning information from the military computer systems onto a Signal chat?

3. Hegseth needs to explain why he thought all those people needed the war plans? On MSNBC Goldberg indicated the Sec of Treasury was in the chat…. Why?

Have a great trip! Let's get together when you return!

Hey Don! How are things with you?