{"id":65765,"date":"2025-03-25T14:05:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T21:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65765"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T21:05:34","slug":"signalgate-how-fox-news-fouled-up-the-war-planning-chat-scandal-was-more-cover-up-than-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65765","title":{"rendered":"SIGNALGATE: How Fox News Fouled Up the War Planning Chat Scandal Was More Cover-Up than Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week the nation was alerted to what may be one of the most serious breaches of national security in modern times. The most senior members of the United States government, including the Vice-President, JD Vance, the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, the Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe, the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, the National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, and others, were caught discussing military attack planning on a commercial chat program.<\/p>\n

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Under ordinary circumstance, this would be the story of the year. And many news organizations treated it as such. However, a conspicuous standout among those that didn’t was, of course, Fox News. The network that was forced to pay a settlement of more than 3\/4 of a billion dollars because they repeatedly lied to support Donald Trump’s wholly unsupported allegations of election fraud, has not learned any lessons from that humiliating display of dishonesty and political propaganda. To the contrary, they continue to back a president who seeks to muzzle the free press.<\/p>\n

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Consequently, it should surprise no one that Fox New is fulfilling its mission as Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda with regard to what is becoming known as “SignalGate,”<\/em> after the messaging app on which the Trump staffers were leaking classified information.<\/p>\n

For the most part, Fox News and other MAGA media has soft-pedalled the story, ignoring the glaring national security disclosures and the gross violation of law. Instead, they focused their “reporting”<\/em> on the detail of how a journalist – The Atlantic’s editor, Jeffrey Goldberg – was included in the chat, and on insulting Goldberg. While allowing a reporter into such a sensitive discussion is a serious breach of protocol, the bigger problem is that all of them where having that discussion on a commercial chat program in the first place.<\/p>\n

Some of the worst offenders were among the usual suspects on Fox News. They included…<\/p>\n

Jesse Watters, who called it “a wee bit of a security breach”<\/em>:<\/strong> “Did you ever try to start a group text? You\u2019re adding people and you accidentally add the wrong person? All of a sudden your Aunt Mary knows all your raunchy plans for the bachelor party? Well, that kind of happened today with the Trump administration. […] Well, national security advisor Mike Waltz accidentally added a reporter to the group text and not a good reporter. Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic, one of the biggest hoax artists around.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here is how Watters explains The Atlantic story to his viewers pic.twitter.com\/UbBfcrFxPF<\/a><\/p>\n

— Acyn (@Acyn) March 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n