REVEALED: How Jeffrey Goldberg Got In
the Signal Group Chat
PJ Media,
by
Matt Margolis
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
4/6/2025 1:32:40 PM
It’s been a couple of weeks since the infamous “Signalgate” controversy erupted. Just as most Americans had moved on from this non-scandal, we have finally learned how Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, got into the encrypted group chat on Signal in the first place.
For sure, this story was overblown from the get-go. Goldberg clearly oversold the chat as containing classified war plans, though a review of the chat, which Goldberg eventually published, proved the chat to be a real nothingburger. That said, the mainstream media quickly pounced on the story, and Democrats used the incident as a pretext
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 4/6/2025 1:39:55 PM (No. 1928043)
Jeffrey Goldberg
A very evil person walking on the lands of the Earth
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/6/2025 1:50:17 PM (No. 1928050)
Some important context is appropriate here.
From Wikipedia - " In a 2013 interview with the Washingtonian, he said he had decided to give up his Israeli citizenship, saying that "If Israel goes much further down the road I think it’s on and becomes more of a theocratic, totalitarian-style state [...] how could the liberal-minded American Jew support that?""
That pretty well sums up Goldberg's lefty political leanings as an Americanized Jewish individual. I hope at least that he believes the Holocaust really did happen.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 4/6/2025 2:20:23 PM (No. 1928075)
More Apple automated insanity run amok. I hate Apple devices, absolutely will NOT own one. Their "we will do it our way, which will be perfect, and NO you cannot do it your way, ever" approach just chaps my butt, and always has.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 4/6/2025 2:42:54 PM (No. 1928088)
OK, that's how his name got on the chat list.
But here's the problem. No people at this level should be dependant on automated technology, especially for chat meetings involving secure communications. There SHOULD BE human gatekeepers to meetings that review all people on the list and determine WHO they are and whether they really should be at the meeting. This shouldn't be that hard. I would think that someone reviewing such a list would KNOW all the people on the list and have reasonable confidence, based on their roles, that they belong in the meeting.
Along comes Jeffrey Goldberg, who they probably would NOT know. They should ask, WHO IS THIS GUY and WHY IS HE INVITED? or WHY IS THIS REPORTED INVITED TO THIS SECURE MEETING?
This is NOT a firing offence but it IS a learning experience and there should be discussions and safeguards put in place. NOT learning from this WOULD be a firing offence.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 4/6/2025 3:50:44 PM (No. 1928117)
Re #4, as I understood it, the damned Apple phone decided that Goldberg's number was an alternate number for someone who SHOULD be on the list, and associated this WRONG number with a RIGHT person. So, the failure is 100% on the damned phone "automation", like the horrors of automated phone text "help".
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 4/6/2025 4:01:31 PM (No. 1928123)
The lesson here, kids, is to use Android, not Apple.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
berthabutt 4/6/2025 4:47:13 PM (No. 1928140)
Time for an exclusive, secure chat app. Period.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 4/6/2025 5:40:26 PM (No. 1928165)
Re #7, apparently this one is considered secure, but if you link it to the wrong people.....that is not a problem with the security of the app.
Of course, IMO, there is absolutely NOTHING that can be on a phone that is actually secure. The CIA says otherwise and puts this on the phones of their people as "secure".
I remain skeptical that anything on any phone is ever secure.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
5 handicap 4/7/2025 5:33:50 AM (No. 1928322)
Lack of attention to detail can cause irreparable harm... Waltz, that's 1...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Zigrid 4/7/2025 9:53:19 AM (No. 1928445)
My biggest problem with Goldberg is...if he really was soooo concerned about the information falling into the wrong hands...like our enemies...then why didn't he just erase and shut his trap....to protect America's secrets....because my dear friends it was all a set up as Greg Kelly on Newsmax said....the President Trump staff was told by the biden White House to use the signal account because it was secure....and you see where that got US....trust no one....remember comey.....
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Geoman 4/7/2025 5:26:14 PM (No. 1928694)
FTA: "Waltz did not ultimately call Goldberg, the people said, but in an extraordinary twist, inadvertently ended up saving Goldberg’s number in his iPhone – under the contact card for Hughes, now the spokesperson for the national security council."
More human error than rogue technology.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
skacmar 4/7/2025 7:27:26 PM (No. 1928744)
It does not matter if the IPhone added Goldberg to Waltz's or not. Shouldn't Waltz have know, or at least paid attention to who who he was adding to his group chat? When you are discussing national security matters, one would expect that the sender of a message knows who it is going to. Didn't he check the list of Chat members before hitting SEND?
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