The hypocrisy of the Signal chat
By ELWOOD WATSON, Syndicated Columnist Apr 6, 2025
... they wanted to hash out plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen and used a messaging app to share the plans. However, they mysteriously added Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, to the group chat and continued to divulge information that was, needless to say, highly sensitive.
Additionally, many of the chat’s messages were set to auto-delete in what appears to violate federal records-keeping laws. It’s difficult to decide what the most disturbing aspect of the entire scandal was. Reckless behavior or gross incompetence? The potential danger that such antics could produce? Texting prayer emojis prior to launching weapons? It was a 21st-century version of Dr. Strangelove ...
For those of you who have not seen it, the characters in the war room expose their incompetence and talk about the danger they are unable to grasp until it is too late to do so.
Rather than confess to a major screw up, the Trump administration went on the offensive, trashing Goldberg ...
So much for taking responsibility for one’s own actions.
Do not let the false bravado deceive you. Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and company are focused on disingenuous arguments on issues such as wokeness, DEI, LGBTQIA+ rights, and transgender people rather than preparing for important battles with the nation’s enemies. Think about it – they have demanded the Pentagon delete tributes to the Tuskegee Airmen, remove photos of soldiers of multiple races and ethnicities at Iwo Jima, and purge images of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb that ended World War II because its name is the Enola Gay ...
https://www.dcourier.com/opinion/watson-the-larger-hypocrisy-of-the-signal-chat-leak-scandal/article_3311be9c-35da-495c-bc2c-1ef72f554903.html
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