Why I Love America

This week, a story broke about a Signal-based US Government private group chat that was supposed to be an internal-only chat. It included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, among others, discussing Military action in the Middle East.

Also included, in error (and cause under investigation), was Atlantic Editor-In-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who published this article:

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans – The Atlantic

So, instead of keeping “war plans” private and immediately contacting the Administration with concern, or not even making yourself known in the chat, so you could be removed, you seemingly instead took advantage of this mistake to publish presumptive and ultimately inaccurate information. Aside from the obvious gaslighting, in my opinion this is a pathetic attempt to paint the Trump Administration in bad light, over a mistake any one of us has done. The root causes of this should be interesting as they come to light.

• Was this a mistake? Of course.
• Was this a major f-up? Damn straight, embarrassing.
• Should (whomever) have known better? Yes
• Was there bad intent against the US? Apparently not, nothing happened?
• Was there any release of critical information? Also, apparently not.
• Was there uncontrolled release of confidential information? Yes, but not classified information, according to today’s hearing.
• Will (whomever) learn from this? You can bet on it never happening again.
• This is called ownership and accountability, and no real harm was done.
• Time to move on.

Someone added this journalist either on purpose or by mistake to a government private communication, and that person didn’t appear to have the integrity to identify and drop, or to ethically report this appropriately for risk assessment and action, instead using it to apparently start an overblown story for political purposes and dumped it into the MSM echo chamber.

When I think about this, one word comes to mind: irresponsible, especially for someone in journalism. If there was true concern by a citizen, I feel such a person would have immediately contacted the Administration with concern, or any trusted official of the US Government, over going to the media.

I can’t wait for the day when a critical mass of this country understands they are truly conservative in nature and the elections become permanently conservative and these extreme and frankly childish groups become a small minority, and perhaps then the ALL the news will report the same news, news we can all trust.

Confidence in the press. It’s a key part of maintaining our freedom, propaganda and misleading information have no place here.