Two things are true. Cabinet members and the VP shouldn’t have been discussing military operations on a lefty-managed version of WhatsApp (which is what Signal really is). And nobody outside D.C. cares.
Jeffrey Goldberg being inappropriately or accidentally added to a Signal group by a staffer was just the cherry on the real problem here, but government officials chatting about government affairs on Signal is a problem so common in D.C. that it’s endemic. And paradoxically the only people getting outraged about it are in D.C.
Which makes them hypocrites.
Democrats are summoning the ghost of Hillary’s emails, but the underlying issue there was always more about the cover-up and the suspicious use of a private server. Sadly, officials sending classified information by Gmail is also commonplace. As are the uses of aliases and the mishandling of classified information.
It shouldn’t be this way, but after a decade of these scandals, the public knows it is.
There’s no cover-up here. Nor is there any need for one because there’s nothing to cover up. That was always the difference with Hillary who responded to everything with cover-ups leading people to conclude that there was something to cover up.
Nobody outside D.C. cares about ‘Signalgate’ and nobody outside D.C. is as guilty of this kind of stuff.
