VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Key questions about the Signal psychodrama

As we learn the full melodrama of the so -called “Scandal” signal calls the left -wing, Atlantic editor, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg on allegedly A safe conference Including top Trump safety officers, a lot of questions should be asked and answering.

Most importantly, who had Goldberg’s private number and inserted it, allegedly by mistake, in a cleaned list of participants in discussions? Why would any top Trump officials or their employees ever have Goldberg’s contact information, given his rather public record: a) inventing stories with unnamed IB sources) suffering from the decade of the chronic Trump syndrome?

Elon Musk eavesdropped to help lead an investigation into leakage of signal chat

Goldberg questions: Did he know the mechanisms that encouraged and continued their concealed presence in safe discussions? Why didn’t Citizen Goldberg simply cleaned as soon as he realized that he was wrongly involved in the key communication of the conference on national security, to which he did not belong, and therefore should obviously immediately exclude him? Why did he listen to the hidden for almost two weeks instead? Did the idea of ​​her hosts inform her own inappropriate presence too morally old -fashioned?

Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg published a work saying that he was inadvertently summoned to Trump’s administration text group discussing the white house plans to hit Houthho militants in Yemen. (Reuters)

Questions for offspring: Did Goldberg’s publish these discrete discussions really influenced the otherwise completely successful mission of the neutralization of the years of pushed Houthis aggression and began to end its true destruction of the International Maritime Trade trade? How is this hill with previous diplomatic and military buns, such as Secretary of State Dean Acheson from January 1950. The speech of the De Facto press club excluding South Korea from the US Umbrella Defense-Party that may have contributed to the invasion of the south in June 1950? Was this comparable to Ambassador with Iraq April by Glaspie’s belief Sadam Hussein to: “We do not have an opinion of your conflicts of Arab Arab, like your dispute with Kuwait”-what may have encouraged his 1990 Kuwait invasion?

President Obama was caught on a hot microphone who spoke to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he would have a “greater flexibility” to deal with NATO rockets after his election. (Screenshot/Obama White House YouTube Page)

Was this comparable to the “hot microf” of President Obama in 2012, then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he would have “flexibility” in the American-Eastern European rocket defense after the last elections? Both maintained their promises: Obama stupidly dismantled American sponsored plans for a prosecution, and Russia delayed its pre -planned invasion of Ukraine until 2014.

Has this ranked with former president of the common chief Mark Milley who secretly contacted his Chinese communist colleague, a Chinese General of Zuocheng, to tell him that he would give him a leader of the liberation army of the People’s Leader if he determined that President Donald Trump is likely to launch an existential war?

And just look at who’s weighing. It was Hillary Clinton, despite illegally using a private server to transfer classified information about the State Department and its next destruction of communication devices for suppression.

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had a secret server in her cellar where she sent and received classified E -pods. (Reuters/Alyssa pointer)

She was the Susan Rice Serial Fabulist, who in 2012 lied to the nation in five Sunday news, claiming that terrorist attacks on the US consulate in Bengasia were “spontaneous” demonstrations fought by anger because of the anti -Muslim video. Wrong sgt ditto rice. Bowe Bergdahl “Honor” narrative and her lie to remove the Syrian weapon for mass destruction.

And why would Leon Panett weigh, when he was one of the alleged 51 intelligence authorities in 2020, which was funny that Laptop Hunter Biden had all the characteristics of Russian effort for intelligence disinformation? This lie is thoughtful to arrange Joe Biden before the debate in the last 2020, and may have influenced the elections.

In the end, this was a mistake, but also what the left like to call “a moment that can be taught. All future similar conferences should be held in person or participants must be three times proven on a safe line. And perhaps most importantly, all Trump high appointments and their staff should know enough that they have nothing to do with those who have presented them not to go not to go.

This column is adapted by Victor Davis Hanson Post on x.