Tuesday, March 25, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 10:54)
A Signal National Security Controversy: An American Journalist Gets Accidentally Added to a Confidential Group Chat About Yemen Strike Plans
Part II (10:54 - 17:25)
Trump Announces a New Fighter Jet: President Trump Announces F-47 Stealth Fighter – But Much About it Is Secret
- Trump Offers a Glimpse of New Stealth Fighter, the F-47 by The New York Times (John Ismay)
Part III (17:25 - 22:53)
Spycraft, Espionage, and U.S. History: Government Releases JFK Files – What Do They Reveal?
Part IV (22:53 - 26:24)
The Grounding at Heathrow: A Fire Shut Down One of the World’s Most Important Airports – What Happened? Is Russia Behind It?
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, March 25, 2025. I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.2 | All right, so yesterday on the briefing, we talked about a movie, indeed, we talked about several movies, the worldview implications thereof, |
| 0:22.1 | what if you came up with a movie in which you had a reporter, say, for a major national |
| 0:26.9 | magazine? And he was accidentally included in a very confidential address list when the |
| 0:34.4 | United States security advisor to the president of the United States, the Secretary of Defense and others, are communicating about American war plans. |
| 0:43.3 | Let's just say that you are a reporter and a complete set of war plans for a military operation is sent to you before it happens. |
| 0:51.3 | Make for a great movie, right? It also evidently makes for reality because that is |
| 0:55.9 | the big news in the United States right now, and it's shaking the national security and defense |
| 1:00.8 | establishments, no doubt reverberations in the White House as well, because indeed a set of war |
| 1:06.3 | plans were accidentally texted to a major reporter in this case. It was Jeffrey Goldberg, who is editor-in-chief of the Atlantic. |
| 1:14.0 | He was identified in the stream by initials, as were some others. |
| 1:17.3 | He was pretty quickly able to decode who the other people were. |
| 1:20.4 | He wasn't sure it was reality at all. |
| 1:23.1 | And as a matter of fact, if you were put on that kind of list, |
| 1:25.9 | you probably would assume it was some kind of a hoax. |
| 1:28.8 | And hoaxes of that kind have entrapped many reporters in the past. |
| 1:32.5 | So as Goldberg relates in a major article that he published at The Atlantic, he decided just to wait and see what happened. |
| 1:39.4 | But as he says repeatedly, he didn't believe that he was possibly actually receiving live war plans in advance of military action by the United States, |
| 1:48.5 | accidentally texted to him as a member of the press. |
| 1:52.3 | It was only when the operation was underway that he became convinced he actually had been accidentally included in a live military and military |
| 2:02.7 | intelligence national security privileged list that was texted on Signal. And by the way, Signal, |
| 2:09.1 | Goldberg identifies as, quote, an open source encrypted messaging service, popular journalists, |
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