On Monday night, the news broke that a group chat between national security officials at the highest levels accidentally included The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg–a vicious and often dishonest Trump critic–in a Signal chat that discussed the US attacks on the Houthis.
Goldberg related his monitoring of the chat in the most breathless terms, claiming that he received the “war plans” for the attacks accidentally. War plans would include strike packages, timing of the strikes, what units were involved, and various details of what should have been very secret and closely held information.
Democrats understandably went nuts, based on their rock-solid principle that classified documents belong solely in the hands of Democrats, who are empowered to leak them at will if it would hurt a Republican. Otherwise, such documents are useful for writing memoirs for…
