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Just in case you didn’t think “Signalgate” wasn’t enough of a farce, the “scandal” that didn’t even last a week in the American political imagination got an annotated treatment in The New York Times that should pretty much tell you how much “classified” information was included in the leaked chat — and why there aren’t emphatic enough air-quotes to go around each of those words.
For those of you who haven’t been following along, a recap: On Monday, The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg published a piece titled, “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.”
That’s a bit of a tonal oversell, as we would later learn, but the whole story is essentially in the title: Goldberg, a noted critic of the Trump White House, got invited to a Signal chat with high-ranking Trump administration officials in which attack plans on Houthi rebels in Yemen were being discussed. Quite the faux pas, yes, …
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