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As US national security authorities used signals to somehow participate in their signal chats with Atlantic magazine journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, who used signals to discuss classified battle plans against Houthis. This amazing security breaches are shocking, but not completely unprecedented. The truth is that as long as national security information is written down anywhere, anywhere, it could find a way to where it shouldn't.
Perhaps one of the most legendary military leaks in American history was the special order of General Robert E. Lee, which detailed his battle plans during the 1863 Confederate Maryland invasion. When I met them, the infamous indecisive McClellan said, “Now I know what to do!” He intercepted Lee's army, leading to a bloody but important union victory at Antietam.
In both of these cases, the leaks were careless, but it is more common in modern times that there is at least some intentionality. Washington Post editor Ben Bradley revealed the case in which John F. Kennedy left the briefcase in a government paper with Post Publisher Philip Graham. The document was related to the US government's approach to dealing with French leader Charles de Gaulle. When asked about Graham's wisdom to leave behind documents, which he knew would be classified as a newspaper publisher, Kennedy said, “He's good for me and this country, and I want to help him.”
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Of course, Graham's paper will then be involved in a much more important leak. One of them was a Pentagon paper during the Richard Nixon administration. In this case, Land Corporation officials and Vietnam War skeptic Daniel Ellsberg leaked about the way the US national security facility was thinking about Vietnam between the Kennedy and the Johnson administration.
The documents did not reveal modern American war strategies, but they expressed skepticism by US officials about increased involvement in the war. The Nixon administration went to court to stop the New York Times from running the documents, but Ellsberg leaked them to the Washington Post and executed the information. Ellsberg was brought to trial for his actions, but the charges were ultimately dismissed.
The Nixon administration suffered more damage leaks from Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein from deep throats inside information about the cover-up of the Watergate robbery. The scandal led to Nixon's resignation, but it was only a few years after Woodward and Bernstein published “All Presidents' Men” that the American people learned of the deep throats of mystical sources. This led to decades of speculation about deep throat identity, and there was speculation that ended in 2005 when Mark, the former deputy FBI director, revealed he was a secret source.
Felt's betrayal stems from his anger over being taken over for the job of the FBI director. Felt passed away three years after revealing his secret, but it had no effect on his actions.
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Following on to the Felt example, other leaks have revealed that within White House information they advance their own or policy preferences. In 1979, former Jimmy Carter speechwriter James Fallows wrote an article on Atlantic Cuisine at the White House where he worked until recently, revealing that Carter is the infamous micromanager.
In late 1981, Ronald Reagan's budget director David Stockman revealed his fears about Reagan's budget policy against William Grader in the Atlantic. Stockman only continued his work in the White House after White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker said, “I was going to have lunch with the president. The menu is a humble pie. You'll eat the last $&@$$spoonful.”
In the Clinton administration, George Stephanopoulos was accused of speaking too freely by Woodward, leading to a disruptive likeness of the administration in Woodward's book, The Agenda. All of these are “egoliks” to some degree, providing a revelation that shows staff's proximity to power.
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Sometimes ego leakage also has national security implications. Deputy Director Richard Armitage leaked to Washington Post columnist Robert Novak that Valerie Prahm was a CIA agent in an internal battle in which the George W. Bush administration tried to prove that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Armitage kept the fact embarrassingly quiet during an internal investigation into the cause of the leak, and Assistant Vice President Dick Cheney Lewis “Scooter” Libby was convicted in the case. Libby's ruling was notified by Bush, who was later forgiven by Donald Trump.
In 2010, General Stanley McCrystal surprised Barack Obama's vice president, Joe Biden, in front of the Rolling Stone Reporter. Obama demands that the general resign.
The Goldberg Chat Group was a technology-enabled leak, but these were low technology leaks. This fact falls in the same category as other 21st century leaks from Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning. They were able to collect and leak large amounts of classification information using modern information systems. Manning was sentenced to prison, but was sentenced to Obama seven years later. Snowden fled to Russia. Goldberg's text reveals the incredible ability of national security authorities to have live conversations in real time to respond to events, but also reveals the risk that those conversations could be leaked by either inadvertently, as in this case, as happened with Snowden and Manning.
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The Trump administration is currently investigating how Goldberg's error occurred. While it appears that everyone will be too badly punished for this unintended violation, we are hoping that the administration will step up its protocols to set up future chats.
However, new protocols in place will not completely prevent future national security leaks. As long as the government remains a source of information that the rest of us don't have, there is always a great interest in knowing what that information is.
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