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James, I have been in Washington for over a half a century, and the story this week

that the Trump National Security team, with all the top muckety mucks on what was supposed to be

a obviously a classified call, inadvertently included a prominent journalist Jeffrey Goldberg

on the planning calls of a military operation

on the Hootie rebels in Yemen.

It's the most extraordinary illustration of the gang that can't shoot straight.

These conversations were held on a signal app that's not the most secure, and no one,

it didn't occur to anyone to ask, who was this J.G that has been invited on the call?

I mean, Jeff Goldberg was invited, so he, of course, joined in the familiar Washington pattern, the cover-up or the lies

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