Posted on 04/06/2025 9:38:46 AM PDT by bitt
The mystery of how one of the most dishonest anti-Trump ‘journalists’ in America got added to the sensitive Signal chat group last month has been solved.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Jeffrey Goldberg, the Trump-hating editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, claimed he was “accidentally” added to a secure Signal group chat by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz where top Trump administration officials discussed sensitive military operations against Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen and called them “war plans.”
But instead of leaving the conversation, Goldberg took screenshots of the conversation and ran to his keyboard to try to leak the military operation. Team Trump angrily fired back and called Goldberg a liar, saying no war plans were discussed.
Then, Goldberg and his co-worker Shane Harris published details of the military plans against the Houthis to call Team Trump’s bluff and humiliate Trump. But Goldberg ended up accidentally proving them right by suddenly referring to the military operations as “attack plans.”
Now, the Guardian has broken an exclusive story explaining that the process inadvertently started several months ago, thanks to Goldberg himself. It turns out the media hack emailed the Trump campaign last October to interrogate them over a story about Trump’s supposed callous attitude towards wounded soldiers. Recall that during the 2020 Presidential campaign, Goldberg wrote a libelous story that falsely stated Trump had called fallen soldiers “suckers and losers.”
Waltz was then called on to respond to the story, and Goldberg’s email was forwarded to then-Trump spokesperson Brian Hughes. Hughes copied and pasted the email’s content, which included Goldberg’s phone number, into a text message sent to Waltz.
Waltz then made a glaring mistake when he somehow saved Goldberg’s number on his phone under the contact card for Hughes.
From The Guardian:
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It would seem to me that if one by accident happens upon highly classified into, and then they pass it on publicly, that would be a law violation. Put that scum bag behind bars.
Bkmk
I know a lot of people jump to conspiracy theories any time something interesting happens, but sometimes it really is just a dopey goofup like this article explains. This sort of thing happens at a mundane level among regular people all the time, and there’s nothing magical about being a high government official that saves them from making the same mistake.
Goldberg took the lower and quicker payoff of reporting what he read for a single article, rather than a higher payoff by keeping confident and creating access to the White House.
First of all, why the heck are we using a third party app, originally integrated by the Drooling Spoon regime?? Why would any non fed employee or contractor (much less, Media Hack) ever be integrated into it?
Get one of Musk’s brain trust to create something proprietary!
The ONLY thing that matters is that Signal should never be used for sensitive discussions. Why was Signal being used at all?
The real problem is CISA requiring the use of Signal because it is “secure.” On a secure platform you would never be able to include someone who was not cleared and authorized to receive such messages. It takes typical FEDGOV CIO incompetence to think Signal is somehow secure or that what is called end to end encryption is meaningful when the system decrypts it for just anyone.
Sounds like he got screwed by some of our automated phone features !
The explanation is very plausible.
I was tolerant until the last sentence...
Junk! Next!!
BS explanation: It’s been demonstrated that Waltz had repeated interaction with him back to his congressional days.
How dare you inject common sense ...
Right you are, a 100% bull shit explanation. Either Waltz or his assistant Wong are responsible for this deliberate action.
Not sure we should believe this.
This is their cover story.
Hopefully they’ll find some other form of communication. But whatever the next form is that they use I hope everyone involved has enough sense to notice who is in the chat.
I can’t find the reference right now, but I seem to remember years ago that our “brilliant” Supreme Court decided that it was not a crime for someone who received classified information through a leak or by accident to then release that information to the public. They determined that only the individual responsible for the information and who originally released the information committed a crime. Always thought that was one of the most asinine decisions by the SCOTUS.
Cool. Now maybe he can also explain why he says he doesn’t know Goldberg but appears in several photographs with him. Waltz is a retired Army SF officer, globalist and wasn’t a Trump supporter until very recently.
Waltz is a deep state snake. The goal here was to embarrass Hegseth, remove him, and bring in closet homo Tom Cotton as Secdef.
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