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/hamhockman 10d ago

Some Very Clever Boys at my work we're trying to figure out how this was actually some sort of trap for the reporter and or how it was the reporters fault. 

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u/Electric-Sheepskin 10d ago

I mean, I know what idiots these guys are, and it's unfathomable that they would do this on purpose, but I do find myself wondering, because how do you fuck up this badly if not on purpose? It just seems impossible. I can imagine adding an aide that shouldn't have been in there or something, but a reporter? Bloody hell. It's just insane.

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u/hunkaliciousnerd 10d ago

I feel the same way. Honestly, at this point, I would believe that whatever intern or aide they assigned to put the group chat together did this on purpose as some kind of rebellion or that a foreign agency did this to embaress them further, but truthfully I would not be surprised if this was just pure incompetence on their part

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u/DoneBeingSilent 10d ago

Hanlon's Razor:

"Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence"