Former CIA Analyst on Signal Group Chat: I Don’t Think Jeffery Goldberg Was There By Accident

The Trump administration wants the story to disappear, but one key question remains.

The White House said it has wrapped up its investigation into how Jeffery Goldberg, The Atlantic editor, was somehow mistakenly invited into a Signal chat and not noticed by anyone involved in the conversation that included precise war plans before a bombing campaign in Yemen.

“This case has been closed here at the White House as far as we are concerned. There have been steps made to ensure that something like that can obviously never happen again, and we’re moving forward,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House spokesmouth, said.

But she doesn’t get to tell the public when we stop asking questions.

Phil Giraldi, the former CIA analyst, spoke to Judge Andrew Napolitano’s “Judging Freedom” about the chat and he said he read the messages twice and thought they showed a profound ignorance about the region by all those involved. He also said they were either negligent or lazy for using Signal to discuss war plans.

“I don’t think Jeffrey Goldberg was there by accident, or by oversight,” he said. “I think he was there deliberately, and we still don’t know how quite that took place and why it took place. And this is something that may unravel over the next several months.”

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