Politicians installed by President Donald Trump in government agencies with a clear mandate to disrupt them to the point of irreparable damage have been laser-focused for weeks on the real bad guys – leakers!

So imagine how uncomfortable it must be for Trump to learn that the most notorious leak in his first nine weeks back in the White House came from … politicians installed by Trump to disrupt and damage government agencies.

How do they square this circle? Leaking is bad! Also, we're a bunch of leakers.

The leak that astonished Washington, D.C., landed Monday when Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, published a story about how he had somehow been added to a group chat on the phone app Signal, where top Trump administration members first revealed and later reveled in the U.S. air strikes 10 days ago on Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen for harassing ships in the Red Sea.

From Goldberg's account, it seems National Security Adviser Mike Waltz added him to a Signal chat, where Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared what must have been highly classified military plans with accounts identified in the app as Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John........

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