When the Jeffrey Goldberg piece in The Atlantic on the National Security Council Signal chat reached my desk (or phone rather), my eyes immediately rolled to the back of my head. Goldberg’s reporting is not trustworthy and must be taken with a grain of salt. He is the author of the now debunked “suckers and losers” piece from 2020. Twenty-seven sources went on the record to disprove his claim that President Trump called World War I heroes derogatory terms. So, when this story popped up, I approached it with an objective and skeptical eye.
Upon reading the headline, the byline, and the first few sentences, I knew this would be a nothing-burger. As a former intelligence professional, I immediately knew that no classified information could
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