Signalgate

You can feel the thrill going up and down their legs. Media titans and Democratic politicians are ecstatic about the leaked group chat about bombing Yemen.Now, everyone calls it Signalgate.

By including Jeffrey Goldberg on the chat, someone made a grievous mistake. For those who had believed that the Trump presidency was the second coming of the Antichrist, it affirmed all of their deepest and darkest suspicions.

As of now we only know that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has taken responsibility for the error. We do not know whether it was a staff member or Waltz himself.

Surely, the American left is more than happy to have a story that obscures the fact that the Biden administration allowed the Yemeni Houthi regime to shut down ship traffic through the Red Sea. 

No one wants to consider the consequences of the Trump administration’s attack on the Houthi rebels, especially its effort to stop them from harassing ships that run by their coast. And no one wants to consider that by allowing the Houthis to take control of the Red Sea the Biden administration was doing the bidding of Iran.

To be fair and balanced, we are obliged to note that the attack on Yemen, still ongoing, has been successful. And it has seemingly damaged the Houthi ability to choke off the Red Sea. Not completely, but to some extent. Shouldn’t that be the standard against which we judge the policy, more even than the fact that the editor of the Atlantic was mistakenly included on the chat.

Clearly, CNN’s resident Republican, Scott Jennings got it right when he said:

We've been on the air for 12 minutes and 33 seconds, and I'm the first person to say the mission was a success.

Naturally, not one of the assembled politicians and media lights was up in arms about the failures of the Biden administration. That would include the botched Afghanistan withdrawal or the failure to close the border. And of course, let us not pass too quickly over the failed Biden policy toward the Houthis. And, we have not forgotten that many of the same journalists were vigorously hawking the Russian collusion hoax not very long ago. Finally, said media and Democratic politicians scrupulously ignored Joe Biden’s mental deficiencies.

For those of a more conspiratorial mind, consider the role of NPR Chair Katherine Maher in this affair. As you know, Maher is a leftist crackpot who hates Trump and all things conservative. Would you believe that she is on the board of Signal. Some say she is chair of the board.

Matt Margolis explains:

While I'm not ready to declare that there is any direct connection between Maher serving on the board of directors and the current Signal breach — I still believe a rogue staffer is the most likely culprit — at the very least these connections raise serious questions about how and why the Biden administration approved the app over other options.

The deeper this story goes, the more it looks less like a simple security breach and more like a symptom of a much larger problem: the incestuous relationship between Big Tech, liberal media, and government operations. It's time for Congress to start asking some tough questions.