Recently, on a 16-person group chat initiated by Michael Waltz and including Pete Hegseth, Jeffrey Goldberg — editor-in-chief of The Atlantic and a vehement critic of both Trump and Hegseth — was inconveniently included. Goldberg stayed on the chat and took screenshots, then withheld reporting the story until, conveniently, the night before Waltz and Hegseth were to testify before Congress.
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Furor followed, with Goldberg insisting that highly secret information was disclosed in the chat, while primly insisting that he wouldn’t disclose what it was — until challenged, at which point it appeared that his skills as a classification officer were lacking.
Democrats used the furor to attack both Hegseth and Waltz, largely at the hands of people who had been critical of Hegseth’s
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