I think it is important to understand what Jeffery Goldberg was going through after being exposed to a national security breach. Everyone else can attempt to guess as to what was going on with him, but, it is better to get it straight from him.
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Journalism is a very solemn profession that deals with the truth. The public is their customer and the profession is dense with ethics. What I hear when he speaks is someone believing the public has a right to know about this astounding reality he faces, while understanding soldiers’ lives can be at risk with this breach of protocol.
These are the weighty realities journalists handle with integrity everyday. Their profession by nature has risk assigned to it as “the truth telling” is their judge.
There is an entry on Reddit where the entire transcript can be viewed. To get to the Reddit entry (I subscribe to Reddit) I typed into Google search bar (see below). If it works well the top listing should be the Reddit link.
What I find extraordinary besides a journalist sitting in on an active military operation is the overwrought dialogue about messaging.
This chat was on basically an open channel while the USA military was prepared and waiting for the president’s decision to move on the plans. What is even more astounding is the order to carry out the mission didn’t directly come from the president.
The order to carry out the mission came from the chain of command because they understood it to be “green lighted” by Trump. Not only that, but, did I detect a sigh of relief that everything went well so the messaging was good?
There is so much wrong with this that every other country seeking intelligence about the USA is now following electronic footprints left on “Signal.”
This is so bad there is no word in the English language to describe how bad this is.
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