Matt Welch
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I think I need to know a little bit more about how this story happened before I can accurately comment on it, because the notion that of all people in the world, the journalist who is probably most hostile to Donald Trump was added to this chat chain about an attack on Yemen.
I think I need to know a little bit more about how this story happened before I can accurately comment on it, because the notion that of all people in the world, the journalist who is probably most hostile to Donald Trump was added to this chat chain about an attack on Yemen.
It's so incredibly improbable that the circumstances of it need to be understood fully before we can properly assess it, I think. I mean, was it a genuine accident or what else happened here? It's just something about it doesn't smell entirely kosher to me.
It's so incredibly improbable that the circumstances of it need to be understood fully before we can properly assess it, I think. I mean, was it a genuine accident or what else happened here? It's just something about it doesn't smell entirely kosher to me.
It's so incredibly improbable that the circumstances of it need to be understood fully before we can properly assess it, I think. I mean, was it a genuine accident or what else happened here? It's just something about it doesn't smell entirely kosher to me.
So it's incredibly humorous to watch Mark Warner talking about breaches of security when his own Senate Select Committee on Intelligence suffered an extraordinary breach of security when the head of security for the committee was indicted for leaking material that led to the publication of the FISA warrant on Carter Page. in 2017. Remember the indictment involving James Wolfe.
So it's incredibly humorous to watch Mark Warner talking about breaches of security when his own Senate Select Committee on Intelligence suffered an extraordinary breach of security when the head of security for the committee was indicted for leaking material that led to the publication of the FISA warrant on Carter Page. in 2017. Remember the indictment involving James Wolfe.
So it's incredibly humorous to watch Mark Warner talking about breaches of security when his own Senate Select Committee on Intelligence suffered an extraordinary breach of security when the head of security for the committee was indicted for leaking material that led to the publication of the FISA warrant on Carter Page. in 2017. Remember the indictment involving James Wolfe.
Now that was a story where the circumstances were kind of mysterious because it was a story that seemed like certain people would have wanted to get out. But that really was classified information that was illegal to leak. And it did end up up in the press and it was a major scandal, both journalistically and in the history of Congress that,
Now that was a story where the circumstances were kind of mysterious because it was a story that seemed like certain people would have wanted to get out. But that really was classified information that was illegal to leak. And it did end up up in the press and it was a major scandal, both journalistically and in the history of Congress that,
Now that was a story where the circumstances were kind of mysterious because it was a story that seemed like certain people would have wanted to get out. But that really was classified information that was illegal to leak. And it did end up up in the press and it was a major scandal, both journalistically and in the history of Congress that,
So for him to talk about this situation where they're not exchanging classified material, they're not sitting in a skiff, and they're simply discussing an operation that may be sensitive but not classified. When he says, I demand that you give us that material, there's no reason why Gabbard and Radcliffe can't just say no. You know, we don't have to do anything. Right.
So for him to talk about this situation where they're not exchanging classified material, they're not sitting in a skiff, and they're simply discussing an operation that may be sensitive but not classified. When he says, I demand that you give us that material, there's no reason why Gabbard and Radcliffe can't just say no. You know, we don't have to do anything. Right.
So for him to talk about this situation where they're not exchanging classified material, they're not sitting in a skiff, and they're simply discussing an operation that may be sensitive but not classified. When he says, I demand that you give us that material, there's no reason why Gabbard and Radcliffe can't just say no. You know, we don't have to do anything. Right.
Yeah, and again, not to speak about Michael Bennett specifically, but for members of the U.S.
Yeah, and again, not to speak about Michael Bennett specifically, but for members of the U.S.
Yeah, and again, not to speak about Michael Bennett specifically, but for members of the U.S.
Senate to talk about an inadvertent leak as if it were this dire, life-threatening matter of national security, when throughout the entire first presidency of Donald Trump, there were epidemic, illegal leaks of classified intelligence from everything involving, you know, the signals intelligence about Michael F.
Senate to talk about an inadvertent leak as if it were this dire, life-threatening matter of national security, when throughout the entire first presidency of Donald Trump, there were epidemic, illegal leaks of classified intelligence from everything involving, you know, the signals intelligence about Michael F.
Senate to talk about an inadvertent leak as if it were this dire, life-threatening matter of national security, when throughout the entire first presidency of Donald Trump, there were epidemic, illegal leaks of classified intelligence from everything involving, you know, the signals intelligence about Michael F.