Let’s simplify this: 1) Officials (Dem and Republican) absolutely use signal to communicate about ongoing issues. 2) Officials also often have reporters in their contacts and sometimes send them info they shouldn’t. 3) It seems unusual and weird to have principals and their key staff discuss an upcoming military action in a signal group. 4) If you’re going to do 3, you absolutely must double and triple check everyone on the group, you cannot have a random, much less a reporter, on there. That’s a giant screwup. No getting around that.
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