Whomst among us hasn’t secretly entered into a corrupt conspiracy to make war against a sovereign nation, in violation of Federal recordkeeping law, and then ineptly thrown open the doors of the junta to the full view of the editor-in-chief of a national investigative news magazine?
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Huh? How detached from reality is that? Sharing company secrets with a third party would get a middle manager fired. Sharing classified, timely, military secrets on accident should get these chucklefucks prison time.
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This is the first time I’ve seen someone write about one aspect I felt similarly about: why did he reveal himself so quickly instead of gathering more evidence?
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/atlantic-article-journalistic-malpractice-20240068.php
You knew you had to publish what you already had right away, but you just bore witness, firsthand, to the outrageously sloppy methods of this administration. You knew they’d keep on talking, because they didn’t really care who heard them. You even said that no one in that chat — which included Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio — noticed you had left it. SO WHY THE F—K DID YOU LEAVE TO BEGIN WITH? Because you felt it was rude to listen in? Or just because you’re safe atop your perch and don’t need to risk any more than you’ve already risked?
I bet it’s that last one. I KNOW it is. You know why? Because, again, you said so yourself. “I found out what I needed to find out.” What about the rest of us, Jeffrey? Did you find out what WE needed you to find out? I can answer that, too: No. You needed only what YOU needed, and not what the rest of us needed.
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Quite. Let them throw the first stone order the first drone strike.
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Sheesh, the agency that I do work for (via contract) has me jumping thru hoops for a low finding, & there’s more paperwork if I can’t resolve it in the next few weeks. Me having to do that, while the dickweeds at the top get away with using Signal like that, is one of the reasons I’m looking to work elsewhere.
EtA:
Can confirm, though it does still appear at the bottom of a given article/page.
(I cancelled my sub after Bezos killed the Harris endorsement, but I’m paid up thru July, so I’m still there for the Food, Book World & Sunday comics sections.)
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Facts have a well-known liberal bias. Always have. Only by eliminating fact-based reporting and research can we balance the playing field!
– MAGAts, probably.
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He says he thought it was fake. Some kind of Groyper-like trolling.
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Are they going to reorganize as nonprofit nonpartisan organizations?
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Of course not! Only the other side is partisan and full of ideology.
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They are pure and conservative. Only liberals have ideologies, specially the woke one.
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He left after he realized it wasn’t fake, but very real. He noped out when no one even knew he was there. He had the proof that they really were giving accurate details, so why not wait to see what the next thing was, to catch them out red-handed? That would be a journalist’s instinct.
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Thanks for posting this.
I have zero background in the practice of journalism, so before I read it I wasn’t sure how fair a criticism this was - he got the proof, what more did anyone want? This part of the article explained it, and I see the point now.
ETA: I wasn’t familiar with Jeffery Goldberg’s work during the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq. I have never forgiven David Frum; it’s good to be familiar with other people who really need to be tarred with the same brush.
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Yeah, as far as he knew, they were about to switch topics from the classified attack plans to exactly who and how the 2024 election was stolen…
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Columbia’s student journalists have been top notch from the day the demonstrations started. Here is a clear-eyed piece that gives factual info about the latest there, regarding Mahmoud Khalil.
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“Duped.” Riiiight.
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“Really! They fooled me by offering me money! Only people who are honest and trustworthy offer money!”
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