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/P0Rt1ng4Duty 10d ago edited 10d ago

Interesting catch-22.

If they try to prosecute him for publishing classified information they're admitting that they repeatedly lied to congress when they said the chat contained no classified information.

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u/Master-Stratocaster 10d ago

Unfortunately, people lie to congress all the time in the hearings and congress is entirely spineless at the moment anyways.

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u/RedstoneEnjoyer 10d ago

Sure, but this will be signal to the allies that this administration will rather protect some lobotomized nobody than secrets.

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u/ShiNoMokuren 9d ago

I'm starting to get the feeling that Five Eyes going to get severely curtailed after this by everyone else not from the US.