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Clowns (National Security Edition)

Clowns (National Security Edition)

They did what? Oh. Of course they did.

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Yes, it really is bad that the national security team in Donald Trump’s administration were discussing top secret operational details in a Signal chat.

And of course worse that they accidentally invited The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg to join.

To be clear: The “accident” part of this is only possible because they were communicating through a public app to…

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