Democratic senators demanded answers from leaders of the US intelligence community on Tuesday on how the top editor of the Atlantic was added to a group chat discussing airstrikes in Yemen, arguing that the “sloppy, careless” leak put national security at risk.
The unusual story broke on Monday, when the Atlantic published a piece by its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, who said he had been added to the group on the messaging app Signal, and watched as accounts that appeared to match top Trump administration officials, including Vice-President JD Vance and the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, debated and then coordinated a wave of bombings targeting the Houthis in Yemen.
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, and John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, both of whom were also in the group, appeared on Tuesday before the Senate intelligence committee for an annual hearing on threats facing the United States, which Democrats used to accuse them of failing to protect sensitive details of US military operations.
I’m not upset that Democrats are demanding answers, it’s that they are demanding answers for the wrong fucking questions.
They are buying the line that adding the reporter to the group was the main and only slip up. The problem is that messages of this nature should not be exchanged using a civilian service in the first place. Every one of them fucked up and Democrats had better demand answers from each of them.
Yeah. And how are journalists supposed to make FOIA requests on what this regime is up to, when their conversations are permanently deleted after 7 days?