In the wake of the Signal chat incident, congressional Democrats seem to be taking the position that the only reasonable response is for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to be fired or resign. I regret to inform them (okay, I don’t really regret it) that they are unlikely to see that wish fulfilled.
Wednesday morning, as our Managing Editor Jennifer Van Laar reported, the Atlantic released the full Signal message chain after questions swirled as to whether the not-exactly-reliable Jeffrey Goldberg’s characterization of the message portions he didn’t initially share as “classified” and/or “war plans” was accurate. This also follows a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee (coincidentally coming just after the story broke) and a Tuesday filing of a lawsuit naming Hegseth and others in the message chain as defendants and asserting Federal Records…
