Following up on my essay, The Set Up: Déjà vu All Over Again, new details have emerged that there was another player involved in the stage case of Michael Waltz “inadvertently” adding The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal chat concerning the bombing of the Houthis terrorists disrupting shipping lands in their sphere of operations.
The initial message, posted on March 13, 2025, came from an account labeled “Michael Waltz” and stated: “Team—establishing a principles group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours. My deputy Alex Wong is pulling together a tiger team at deputies/agency Chief of Staff level following up from the meeting in the Sit Room this morning for action items and will be sending that out later this evening.” Investigators need to know the role Wong played in this affair.
Wong worked in private practice with Covington & Burling, a Washington, DC-based international law firm. Covington & Burling is known for its extensive work in international trade, regulatory compliance, and governmental investigations. On February 25, 2025, Trump signed an executive order stripping security clearances from employees of Covington & Burling and initiated a review of all federal government work with the firm. Just saying.
Hopefully, the investigation will get to the bottom of all that. But there’s another matter that must be addressed: the matter of hypocrisy on the Democrat side. Remember in 2010 when Julian Assange and WikiLeaks released sensitive military information provided by Bradley Manning, a US Army intelligence analyst? The government charged Assange under the Espionage Act of 1917 for receiving these materials and pursued him for years? That Act is the primary statutory vehicle that the government uses to bring criminal prosecutions for leaking or mishandling classified information. In 2024, Assange agreed to a plea deal, pleading guilty to one count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified documents. Note the dates—the persecution of Assange was led by Democrats.
Goldberg was invited to an end-to-end Signal chat with Trump’s national security team and took screen shots of what he believed was classified material and publicly shared it. Either he conspired with somebody in that chat to accomplish this or he exploited human error to obtain classified information. I suspect that he was invited in as a deep state operation to disrupt the Trump agenda and to influence the outcome of upcoming elections that could determine the fate of the House. Either way, why is Goldberg walking around not only free but celebrated by Democrats as a hero while Assange had his life destroyed?
Journalists should be asking Jeffrey: was this classified information and you’re a spy, or do you want to walk that back? Of course, walking that back doesn’t mean that it could have been classified information that Goldberg shared—information Democrats claim risks lives. The rest of us should remind Democrats in Congress that it was their beloved president Obama who pursued Assange. We must ask, in light of this, why aren’t Democrats demanding the Trump Administration arrest and charge Goldberg under the Espionage Act of 1917? Will Democrats walk back their hyperbole? Of course they won’t. No party in American history has been more hypocritical than the Democratic Party.
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