cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27346028

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

By Jeffrey Goldberg

  • WarlockLawyer@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    I also learned journalists are very conservative and perhaps cowardly when given a veritable goldmine of information and a potential source for war crime reveals.

    • Brian Ragle@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      Goldberg is a former IDF prison guard who found a pet Palestinian he claimed really understood Zionism. He can’t dig too deeply into war crimes without his own past coming back to haunt him.