Secrets of the Press II

Where was the outrage of the Democratic press when it was needed?

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President Trump's National Security Advisor, Michael Waltz, left, and Secretary Hegseth on Capitol Hill, January 14, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Whom would you trust with America’s wartime secrets? We ask because of the uproar over the leak of a group chat on Signal in which top aides of the Trump administration — plus the vice president of America — were discussing a pending attack on our enemies in Yemen. Turns out that one of the individuals on the chat was the famed editor of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, and the result was a tumult of the first water.

“This is one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I have read about in a very, very long time,” Senator Schumer harrumphed on a platform owned by the head of DOGE. It was “an extraordinary breach of American national security intelligence,” the Times reports. Its David French reckons Secretary Hegseth has “blown his credibility as a military leader” and adds that “if he had any honor at all, he would resign.”

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