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MAGA conservatives are attacking Jeffrey Goldberg<\/a> for being in the chat<\/a> now known as \u201cSignalgate.\u201d But some are wondering why he left the chat. Here<\/a> is Stephen Prager at Current Affairs<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\u2026As Goldberg watched these deliberations unfold, he was understandably incredulous about the fact that he was included. That is, until he checked Twitter\/X to confirm that explosions were indeed being reported in Yemen. He then turned back to the chat to watch as the top-level security officials celebrated the bombing with a bevy of emojis: American flags, fists pumping, hands praying. It was at this point Goldberg knew that the chat was real and that he truly was observing the innermost workings of a presidential administration completely undetected. And so, he did what any inquisitive journalist would do given those circumstances. He removed himself from the group.<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry\u2026 he did\u00a0<\/em>WHAT?\u00a0Yeah, that\u2019s right. He just removed himself from the group, a move he explains that he made \u201cunderstanding that this would trigger an automatic notification to the group\u2019s creator, \u2018Michael Waltz,\u2019 that I had left.\u201d When I read this, my jaw was on the floor for a good few minutes. I haven\u2019t been in the journalism game as long as Jeffrey Goldberg. When he left his job as a\u00a0humble IDF prison guard<\/a>\u00a0to join the\u00a0Washington Post, kicking off his illustrious career as a man of letters, I had not yet been born, so maybe he knows more than me. But if\u00a0I\u00a0were put in the position Goldberg found himself in, I simply cannot fathom doing what he did.<\/em><\/p>\n

Goldberg was given a one in a million opportunity to observe the heights of American power unchecked, unfiltered, with top Trump administration officials acting as if they believed nobody was watching them. This is\u00a0never\u00a0a situation journalists are in, and Goldberg was well aware of that. By what appears to have been sheer, dumb luck, he was given the opportunity to be a fly on the wall in the most secretive room in the world. Instead of waiting and watching, taking in every bit of information he could, he decided to buzz on over to the middle of the table where everyone could see him and say,\u00a0<\/em>Hey guys, so I\u2019m a fly and I accidentally ended up on your wall, I think there\u2019s been some kind of mix-up and I saw some stuff I wasn\u2019t supposed to see. Sorry! I\u2019ll see myself out.<\/p>\n

Read the entire piece here<\/a>. What do you think? Is Prager\u2019s critique fair?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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