Hillary Clinton on the Signal Group-Chat Scandal: ‘The Hypocrisy Is Staggering’

glamour.com:

Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on—it bears repeating, again. herself can’t believe it either.“The hypocrisy is staggering, but worse, the arrogance and incompetence puts the lives of our military men and women in danger,” she tells Glamour exclusively, in her first public comments on the matter since a post on Monday.Hillary Clinton at the October 2016 town hall debate at Washington University St Louis, MissouriIf you have spent the last few days in a hyperbaric chamber without internet or television access (jealous) and have somehow missed this story, a brief refresher.

On Monday, Goldberg, who is a deeply respected, award-winning editor and longtime national security reporter, with this jaw-dropping headline: “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.”As Goldberg explains, a few weeks ago he received a connection request on Signal, an encrypted messaging app popular with journalists, from a user named Michael Waltz.

Goldberg assumed that this Waltz was the same one currently serving as Trump’s national security advisor, but didn’t think the request actually came from him directly.Then Waltz added Goldberg to a chat called “Houthi PC small group,” populated with users purporting to be top Trump officials like Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.