I wrote about the Signal flap twice yesterday, and frankly, I am very tired of the subject.
Scott Adams, whose excellent podcast I try to listen to every day, correctly said that in the grand scheme of things, this story ranks as a two out of 10. Yes, something significant happened, and how it did needs to be tracked down and the hole plugged, but nothing bad happened. The controversy is hardly worth days of national attention and is only getting it because the left is desperate for a news hook.
Yet here we are, yet again, discussing this because the Pravda Media and the Democrats are determined to milk every possible ounce of poison out of the snake’s teeth. And after I got over my initial exasperation at how ridiculous everybody is being, I started noticing something: the Democrats are actually kinda funny when talking about this.
Leading advocate of Libya intervention which fanned terrorism from the Sahel to Syria says the Signal exchange was the “biggest national security debacle that any national security professional can remember.” pic.twitter.com/U9luS9jzSA
— Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) March 26, 2025
Suddenly the authors of some of the most damaging national security decisions ever made–people who applauded backing the Arab Spring, the 2014 “color revolutions,” the Iraq war, the Afghanistan withdrawal, Hillary’s use of an unsecured email server in her bathroom–one that we know was hacked by China and Russia–express deep concern with how Pete Hegseth and the Trump administration talked about a very successful anti-terrorist operation.
Oh I remember https://t.co/yhnHJdqBoG
— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) March 26, 2025
Do you guys remember that time that a chubby Army lieutenant colonel with a dead-end career listened in on a confidential call between the President of the United States and the President of Ukraine, and then that rabidly partisan chow-thief LTC violated all of the confidentiality terms of his security clearance and ran to unauthorized Congressional staffers to blab the contents of that confidential, high-level conversation?
Remember how literally every Democrat alive thought that was just peachy-keen fine?
I remember. Good times….
I, too, am appalled that Jeffrey Goldberg saw anything remotely sensitive about this operation before it happened, and do believe that a full analysis should be conducted and a plan to remediate any problems be put in place. If somebody committed an intentional act of betrayal, as seems possible, they should be fired and prosecuted.
But for God’s sake, man, having Democrats and Pravda Media mavens lecture us about classified information, national security, or the use of emojis in group chats is actually funny.
National security is not a joke—but the irresponsible attempts of Trump’s top officials to evade responsibility for a major security breach have become so surreal that they’re comical, @RadioFreeTom writes in The Atlantic Daily: https://t.co/9jTzZ2NC2u
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) March 27, 2025
The strategic leak of classified information is the go-to strategy of the Deep State, and the repetition of lies and half-truths from these illegal classified leaks is the bread and butter of today’s journalism. The Steele Dossier/Russiagate controversy broke into the media because James Comey set up a phony briefing of Obama and Trump about the dossier, memorialized it in a classified memo, and then leaked it to the press.
Everybody knows that. Comey has admitted it. It is how things are done in high-stakes Washington game-playing.
.@SecVetAffairs torches Fake News CNN’s @kaitlancollins: “Since you undoubtedly don’t want to talk about the VA … I would like to know why CNN is hostile to veterans — especially one in Florida, where you just had a $5 million defamation suit…” pic.twitter.com/fwnkeg10Zn
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 27, 2025
This entire controversy is a media creation, no less fake than the Steele Dossier and the years of controversy it created. An Op. A propaganda campaign.
What complete bullshit.
James Clapper went before the Senate and explicitly lied when he denied the NSA kept dossiers on Americans — exactly what the Snowden docs showed they were doing — and he was never fired. He stayed as DNI until Obama’s last day, then got hired by CNN: https://t.co/eAMG2aDKS5
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 26, 2025
Somewhere, deeply buried, is an interesting question: how did this happen, and how we prevent it from ever happening again? It could have been incompetence, a brain fart, a Biden loyalist sabotaging the Trump administration, or, God forbid, somebody in Trump’s cabinet actually conversing with Jeffrey Goldberg and accidentally adding him to the group chat.
That spokesperson for the US Security State masquerading as a journalist believes classified information should be disclosed only when her bosses at CIA tell her to do that: pic.twitter.com/JrlR6X1qof
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 27, 2025
Nobody in the media cares about the facts. They were primed to create a controversy, and create a controversy, they did. I know ordinary people who have no idea what a “war plan” is, how serious or not the security breach was, who the Houthis are, who Goldberg is, or anything else totally consumed by this story as if it were sending the nuclear codes to Xi Jinping.
Elizabeth Warren called for zero people to resign over this. pic.twitter.com/Iu7gQWMnHa
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) March 26, 2025
They are taking their signals for what to care about from their trusted sources: the media. If they are upset, it must be upsetting.
But come on, man. Under Obama, the Secretary of State kept an illegal, unsecured email server in her home bathroom, it got hacked, she had her maid print out classified documents for her, and the same people defended her to the death and nominated her to be President of the United States.
It’s kinda funny if you think about it.
