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3 reasons ‘Signalgate’ is not going away

A texting leak about an air attack on Houthi rebels became an embarrassment called 'Signalgate'.
The Signal group chat about a pending military strike in Yemen included eighteen government officials.
Jeffrey Goldberg, an editor at The Atlantic, was mistakenly included in the discussion on Signal.
President Trump dismissed the incident as a 'minor glitch,' but Representative Bacon said the White House was 'in denial'.
Congressional lawmakers called for investigations, raising concerns about transparency and potential violations of record-keeping requirements.

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West Central Tribune

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Susan Estrich: The cover-up is always worse than the crime

The White House press secretary accused him of being an "anti-Trump hater," a "propagandist in the mainstream media," and of trying to sell a Signal "hoax." The president called him a "sleazebag." President Donald Trump was reportedly furious, not at his own team but at the press, calling the investigation a witch hunt and The Atlantic, owned by Laurene Powell Jobs, the Apple founder's widow, a failed magazine. The magazine acted with restraint …

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National Memo

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Worse Than Signalgate? New Security Bombshell Hits White House

Less than two weeks ago there was SignalGate, the Trump administration’s national security scandal that potentially endangered the lives of U.S. service members, and risked exposing military plans, by using an insecure channel to discuss, map out, and announce progress of an attack in Yemen. Then there was the Trump administration’s passwords scandal, where passwords, email addresses, and phone numbers of top Trump national security officials we…

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Greenfield Recorder

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Sam Michel: Promises made, promises kept

Thanks to the Trump administration for its latest demonstration of government transparency by including an editor from The Atlantic magazine in a group chat about attack plans on Houthi targets in Yemen. By shrewdly refusing to designate the operation “highly classified,” and refusing to hide behind the security of their government-issue phones, the actors in this exciting drama allowed us to view how a truly merit-based cabinet operates, freed …

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