Stelter: ‘So Sloppy’ for Trump Admin to Accidentally Text The Atlantic’s Goldberg Their War Plans

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STELTER: “The idea that, instead, all these Trump deputies were hanging out, chatting on Signal instead, that is very noteworthy and that‘s going to raise a lot of red flags. Let‘s keep in mind here, Goldberg was seeing very classified information, names of CIA officers apparently, he was seeing the war plans before the plans were enacted. So if somebody else had been added to this group chat, there were real national security concerns here. It reminds me of, you know, the kids are always taught in school about the best and brightest running government. And then stories like this erupt and we see how human the government actually is. You know, but texting war plans, it is something we‘ve never quite seen before. And, you know, people are going to try to figure out, why was Goldberg added to this? There are some theories that they were trying to add somebody else with the initials JG, maybe Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative. That would have made sense. But the point here is it was so simple, so easy, so sloppy to add a journalist from the Atlantic instead. And of course, Goldberg was patriotic, he didn‘t tell anybody. He didn‘t go out and share the war plans, of course. He just listened in and tried to figure out if this was real or not, and apparently it was all too real."