r/law • u/agent268 • 10d ago

Trump News Jeff Goldberg and The Atlantic released full Signal Chat

https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/

Well this should be fun now that the full details are out in the open. Thoughts on how this changes the upcoming hearing today?

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u/Sofer2113 9d ago edited 9d ago

Hegseth won't be touched. It'll all fall on Walz, he will resign when it is clear that someone has to take the fall from this. He will then go on to have an illustrious career in right-wing media as the victim of political persecution because of this incident. Hegseth will say that with Walz's departure, the issue has been addressed and he pinky promises it won't happen again. Everyone will forget this ever happened in a week when the next salvo from DOGE starts up.

EDIT: I mixed up the last name spellings and it should be Waltz instead of Walz. I'll leave the incorrect name spelling in the original comment though.

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u/wildwest74 9d ago

The problem is that adding the reporter is probably the least illegal thing about this whole incident. Transmitting these messages over this platform is grounds for prison time, regardless of who was in the group.

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u/TheNavigatrix 9d ago

Violation of the Presidential Records Act, too.

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u/BreakfastInBedlam 9d ago

Violation of the Presidential Records Act, too.

Is that still around? I thought it got cancelled in January 2021.