Breaking: Trump Admin Accidentally Texted War Plans to Editor of Atlantic

the unredacted texts show that texts with mission details were sent to moscow with 2+ hours warning before US airplanes reached their target. Trump clowns jeopardized American lives and certainly the mission.

Goldberg received request from Waltz to join the group on March 11, and the chat started a couple of days later. He thought it might be a ruse until he got the details of the attack and then a couple hours later, right on que, it happened. He signed off from the group that day or the next day. No one contacted him when he signed or signed off. Only 20 people were on the group, the rest were officials in the administration.

Either this is incredibly sloppy (it is, you use a secure channel for this type of stuff) and stupid, or there is another endgame here. i.e., let's use this as an excuse to shut down the nosey press. I more than half expect that the administration will find a way to press charges against Goldberg.

You saw how King Spanky used government power to punish law firms?

Likely that King Spanky will use this newly found power to use government power to punish The Atlantic in some devilish amoral unamerican way.

Every time 'conservatives' look the other way when trump abuses government power is one more step to a monarchy.

This is the right point. 100%

NYT:

As the administration mounts its defense, here is one test to apply: Had a news organization come to the Pentagon with these specifics before the planned attack, with a plan to publish them, would the administration argue that it needed to withhold publication because the operation would be compromised? Of course it would have — and most responsible news organizations would have complied. That undercuts the argument made by President Trump and his intelligence chiefs that the information was not classified, and therefore the leak was unimportant.

Who insinuated that?

However, why is Hegseth trying to attack and discredit the Atlantic when the administration has verified that they’re correct and accurate? Reasonably explain that beyond the fact that this is such an utter embarrassment and there is so little coordination in communication and messaging.

Also, we should be clear about this: Gabbard, Hegseth, Ratcliff, Waltz, et al. all prioritized their own asses over our national security. The details of how the US carries out an operation like this are undoubtedly of interest to our enemies. This should not be public information. And they basically dared Goldberg to share it.

They may try to prosecute Goldberg, but I doubt it goes well for them. The original article explained the measures Goldberg took for his legal protection.

Agreed.

Anyone that attacks the journalist or the publication should immediately be written off as an unserious person, and certainly not someone worthy of a Cabinet post or other elected office. And that includes POTUS.

trump will go after The Atlantic as a company, not Goldberg individually.

Although Republicans will dox Goldberg so m'aga/russia send goldberg lots of death threats. Intimidating journalists is a key piece of the right wing authoritarian playbook.

waitforit /

Ha ha ha.

My opinions are only "unusual" if you live in a leftist bubble.

Generals like to go to war. It's literally the job. It's rather foolish to pretend generals don't Iike war and even more foolish to pretend there isn't a profit motive for retired generals to promote forever war.

If people like Jim Mattis were in charge we'd be at war in 50 different countries.

Mattis wanted to increase troop levels in Syria. Trump wanted to leave. Mattis was 100% wrong on Syria and Al Quaeda now controls Syria thanks to the stupidity of people like Jim Mattis.

Yet, the administration will be fine. Maybe a few figure heads will roll, but the administration will be just fine among the electorate. I don't understand it.

Says the party that literally wanted Fox News shut down for the sin of being the only network on all of television that wasn't on the Democrat payroll.

Lol...

The lack of self awareness you cultists have is disgraceful.

You don't even know what the information was.

All we know for a fact is that Goldberg has lied to try to hurt Trump in the past.

The attack is finished.

He needs to release the so called evidence he has or just admit he's lying yet again.

There is zero journalism happening at the Atlantic. Those crazies make Breitbart look like a moderate outlet.

You’re late buddy. The Atlantic published the full chat this morning.

This will rank among the Top Ten Stupidest Replies to any post, in any thread on this message board this week. For sure.

Do you think that firemen are glad when they get an alert that a building is on fire? Are they happy that people are losing their property and potentially their lives so that they the can then be called into service?

There’s a difference between the satisfaction of mitigating loss versus wishing for the disaster to require your response.

Regarding the full chat...

As alarming as it is that this was discussed on Signal, and that there was a journalist included, isn't it equally alarming how minimal the discussion was in regard to actually launching a military strike?

I think we should.

I'm not so sure.

Europe are freeloaders, let's extract something.

Not sure the President will like this, but whatever, dude.

OK, if you want to, I'll so OK.

Here's how we're going to do it.

Woohoo! Team USA! EMOJI< EMOJI< EMOJI

Is this really how this administration is going to have serious discussions about whether to bomb people? I mean, this thread is barely worthy of a middle school student government deciding on games for a pep rally.

Spoken like someone who's never had a dangerous job of any kind.

Fireman enjoy fighting fires. That doesn't mean they hope for them or advocate for starting them.

Generals, however, DO advocate for starting wars. War is the best way to get promoted as a high ranking officer and war is the fastest way to get rich as a former high ranking officer.

Eisenhower understood this 70 years ago and you still haven't figured it out...