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The Democrats’ latest effort to manufacture a Trump administration scandal blew up in their faces this week after Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, reported that he was somehow included in an encrypted Signal chat group with top administration officials discussing a planned attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen. According to Goldberg, officials discussed classified and/or top-secret war plans.
NoonedisputesthatGoldbergwaserroneouslyincludedinthechat,buttherealissueiswhetherclassifiedortop-secretwarplanswereactuallydiscussed.
CIADirectorJohnRatcliffeandDNIDirectorTulsiGabbardtestifiedthatnothingclassifiedortopsecretwasdiscussedinthechat.Othersintheadministrationhavesaidthesamething.
Goldberghadbeengiventheopeningtoreleasethechatsintheirentiretytoprovethemwrong.Butheinsistedthathewouldn’t.
DuringaninterviewonTheBulwarkPodcastwithTimMiller,Goldbergrepeatedlyevadedcallstoproduceevidence,raisingseriousquestionsaboutthecredibilityofhisclaims.
MillerdirectlychallengedGoldberg,pointingoutthattopBidenadministrationofficialsha
