And not just any reporter. Trump’s bumbling national security team accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. And it’s just as insane and reckless as it sounds.
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Two days later—Thursday—at 4:28 p.m., I received a notice that I was to be included in a Signal chat group. It was called the “Houthi PC small group.”
A message to the group, from “Michael Waltz,” read as follows: “Team – establishing a principles [sic] group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours. My deputy Alex Wong is pulling together a tiger team at deputies/agency Chief of Staff level following up from the meeting in the Sit Room this morning for action items and will be sending that out later this evening.”
What follows would defy the any screen writer.
I’ll have more to say on tomorrow’s podcast with former national security aide, Olivia Troye.
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