{"id":2417057,"date":"2025-03-28T09:57:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-term-high-side-is-mentioned-in-the-signal-leak-what-it-means-shows-scandal-is-a-farce\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T09:58:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:58:29","slug":"the-term-high-side-is-mentioned-in-the-signal-leak-what-it-means-shows-scandal-is-a-farce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-term-high-side-is-mentioned-in-the-signal-leak-what-it-means-shows-scandal-is-a-farce\/","title":{"rendered":"The Term &#8216;High Side&#8217; Is Mentioned in the Signal &#8216;Leak&#8217; &#8211; What It Means Shows Scandal Is a Farce"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-term-high-side-is-mentioned-in-the-signal-leak-what-it-means-shows-scandal-is-a-farce%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2417057&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article critiques the &#8220;Signalgate&#8221; incident, which arose from a published piece by Jeffrey Goldberg in *The Atlantic* claiming he accidentally gained access to classified chat communications regarding military plans against Houthi rebels in Yemen. Initially portrayed as a notable scandal, the details was later downplayed by officials, including the Director of National Intelligence and CIA Director, who asserted that no classified material was discussed in the chat. <\/p>\n<p>As rebuttals emerged, it became clear that the exchanged information was not as confidential or alarming as suggested. Subsequent revelations indicated that *The Atlantic* had exaggerated the severity, with later articles adjusting their tone to reflect the chat&#8217;s unclassified context. Ultimately, the incident was deemed more an administrative error rather than a breach of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-got-it-newsmax-reporter-emerald-robinson-national-security-source-confirms-a-piece-of-hardware-has-been-secured-in-germany\/\" title=\"We Got It! - Newsmax Reporter Emerald Robinson: National Security Source Confirms &quot;A Piece of Hard...e Has Been Secured&quot; in Germany\">national security<\/a>, illustrating a disconnect between media narratives and the actual content of the communications.The piece concludes that while mishandling sensitive discussions is serious, the publicity surrounding &#8220;Signalgate&#8221; was largely inflated and hinged on misleading claims.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Just in case you didn&rsquo;t think &ldquo;Signalgate&rdquo; wasn&rsquo;t enough of a farce, the &ldquo;scandal&rdquo; that didn&rsquo;t even last a week in the American political imagination got an annotated treatment in The New York Times that should pretty much tell you how much &ldquo;classified&rdquo; information was included in the leaked chat &mdash; and why there aren&rsquo;t emphatic enough air-quotes to go around each of those words.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who haven&rsquo;t been following along, a recap: On Monday, The Atlantic&rsquo;s Jeffrey Goldberg published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2025\/03\/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans\/682151\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece<\/a> titled, &ldquo;The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/facts-karoline-leavitt-issues-blistering-response-report-leaked-war-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a bit of a tonal oversell<\/a>, as we would later learn, but the whole story is essentially in the title: Goldberg, a noted critic of the Trump White House, got invited to a Signal chat with high-ranking Trump administration officials in which attack plans on Houthi rebels in Yemen were being discussed. Quite the faux pas, yes, but what happened aside from that?<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg assured us that what he saw was very secret, very classified, and could very much have compromised American operational efficacy had it been d with an enemy. It included, to use his exact words, &ldquo;precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That article was published at a little past noon on Monday. Throughout that day and through the day Tuesday, members of the chat group spoke out in terms that didn&rsquo;t deny the existence of the chat, but noted that Goldberg had very much oversold the nature of the information that was d there.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Nobody was texting war plans, and that&rsquo;s all I have to say about that,&rdquo; Defense Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pete-hegseths-new-tattoo-causing-stir-muslims-means\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pete Hegseth<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There was no classified material that was d in that Signal group,&rdquo; Director of National Intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-gabbard-smashes-war-plans-lie-less-30-seconds-expert-level-testimony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tulsi Gabbard<\/a> told the Senate Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n<p>CIA Director John Ratcliffe, appearing before the same committee: &ldquo;My communications, to be clear, in the Signal message group were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Very well, The Atlantic said. Since that was the case, they&rsquo;d publish almost all of the Signal chat &mdash; which was anticlimactic in the extreme. It contained no &ldquo;precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing,&rdquo; as Goldberg had promised, unless by precise he meant &ldquo;really vague.&rdquo; (I get those two mixed up all the time.)<\/p>\n<p>At this point, they&rsquo;d shifted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2025\/03\/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg\/682176\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headlines<\/a>, too: &ldquo;Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump&rsquo;s Advisers d on Signal.&rdquo; Notice the verbiage change; apparently, someone at The Atlantic remembered we are neither officially nor technically at war with either Yemen or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/us-stealth-bombs-iran-backed-houthis-bidens-orders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houthis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To make things worse, it turned out that one of his big reveals &mdash; the fact that Ratcliffe had allegedly dropped the name of &ldquo;an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-the-biggest-lie-nobody-caught-jd-vance-obliterates-signal-story-writer-with-single-revelation\/\" title=\"It&#039;s the Biggest Lie Nobody Caught - JD Vance Obliterates ... Story Writer with Single Revelation\">active intelligence officer&#038;rdquo<\/a>; whose identity is classified &mdash; was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biggest-lie-nobody-caught-jd-vance-obliterates-signal-story-writer-single-revelation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">almost completely bogus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>WARNING: The following post contains vulgar language that some readers may find offensive.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It&rsquo;s very clear Goldberg oversold what he had. But one thing in particular really stands out.<\/p>\n<p>Remember when he was attacking Ratcliffe for blowing the cover for a CIA agent? Turns out Ratcliffe was simply naming his chief of staff. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BUGbX6gZDZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/BUGbX6gZDZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDVance\/status\/1904887094649971146?\">March 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But apparently, we needed to get all the mileage we could out of this thing &mdash; after all, &ldquo;Signalgate&rdquo; seemed to have such promise when it all broke on Monday! &mdash; so in came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2025\/03\/25\/us\/signal-group-chat-text-annotations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> with, &ldquo;The Leaked Signal Chat, Annotated,&rdquo; just so they could let you know how bad it all was.<\/p>\n<p>Except they had to admit that, rather quietly, the chat Goldberg had promised us was the super-duper-secret Houthi strike secured chat wasn&rsquo;t, um, the real secret chat.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, apparently, a scandal sold to us on the premise that government officials were stupid enough to hold the secure classified chat for a military operation on a commercial chat application included information that indicated it wasn&rsquo;t the secure classified chat. Who would have guessed it?<\/p>\n<p>That info came when scrutinizing a Friday, March 14 message from White House National Security Advisor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/white-house-adviser-center-chat-leak-speaks-embarrassing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Waltz<\/a>, whose invitation to Goldberg started this whole mess off:<\/p>\n<p><em>Team, you should have a statement of conclusions with taskings per the Presidents guidance this morning in your high side inboxes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>State and DOD, we <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">developed suggested notification lists<\/a> for regional Allies and partners.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joint Staff is sending this am a more specific sequence of events in the coming days and we will work w DOD to ensure COS, OVP and POTUS are briefed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Times, in providing context as to why this particular message was important, gave us all we needed to dismiss this pseudo-scandal as unimportant.<\/p>\n<p>From their annotation: &ldquo;Government officials work sometimes in the &lsquo;high side,&rsquo; which is a classified system, and the &lsquo;low side,&rsquo; which is an unclassified government system.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This entire conversation, however, takes place in neither the &lsquo;high side&rsquo; nor the &lsquo;low side,&rsquo; but in a publicly available messaging app.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Oh.<\/p>\n<p>Again, let me reiterate for like the 50th time this week: This is&nbsp;<em>not to say that what happened is good<\/em>. It wasn&rsquo;t. Either someone or a group of someone&rsquo;s screwed up bigly here, and Goldberg and the media got plenty of mileage out of that screwup.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody bothered mentioning the &ldquo;high side&rdquo; thing. Even the Times barely touched on it before moving on.<\/p>\n<p>But acknowledging that the details are on the &ldquo;high side,&rdquo; as Waltz said, indicated that the&nbsp;<em>real<\/em> stuff was elsewhere &mdash; not in an ersatz Signal group, which is how this is all being packaged and sold.<\/p>\n<p>Why wasn&rsquo;t this being put out on the high side? The answer is obvious, simple, and completely deflating to that narrative: It didn&rsquo;t include anything that needed to be put there. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-gabbard-smashes-war-plans-lie-less-30-seconds-expert-level-testimony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">There was no<\/a> &ldquo;precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.&rdquo; No classified info. No unmasking of intelligence operatives. No &ldquo;war plans.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>What we had, instead, was nothing but an administrative gaffe that, with the aid of some clickable headlines, seemed like the worst thing in the world for 48 hours. Until even the New York Times&rsquo; annotators had to admit that this wasn&rsquo;t the&nbsp;<em>real<\/em> &ldquo;war plans&rdquo; chat. In the end, it was more like more like a group of students texting their notes to each other before a test and accidentally including their professor. That&rsquo;s it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for coming, I guess?<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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This should clarify just how little &#8220;classified&#8221; information was actually present in the leaked chat and why those terms are heavily qualified. For those who haven&#8217;t been keeping up, here&#8217;s a brief summary: On Monday, Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic published an article titled \u201cThe Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans.\u201d While that title may have exaggerated the situation, it essentially conveyed that Goldberg\u2014a known critic of Trump\u2014was invited to a Signal chat with senior officials discussing military strategies against Houthi rebels in Yemen. Although this was indeed an error on their part, what else transpired? Goldberg claimed he witnessed highly classified information that could have jeopardized U.S. operations if intercepted by adversaries. He described it as containing \u201cspecific details about weapons packages, targets, and timing.\u201d However, as members of the chat group later clarified throughout Monday and Tuesday, while they did not deny the existence of the chat itself, they asserted that Goldberg had significantly overstated its contents.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stated plainly: \u201cNobody was texting war plans,\u201d while Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard informed the Senate Intelligence Committee there were no classified materials shared in that Signal group. CIA Director John Ratcliffe echoed this sentiment during his testimony before Congress: \u201cMy communications in the Signal message group were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information.\u201d In light of these clarifications from officials involved, The Atlantic decided to publish most of the Signal chat transcript\u2014which turned out to be quite anticlimactic. Contrary to Goldberg&#8217;s claims about detailed military strategies involving weapons packages and timing\u2014unless he meant vague references\u2014the content revealed nothing specific at all.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic even changed its headline to reflect this shift: \u201cHere Are the Attack Plans That Trump\u2019s Advisers Discussed on Signal.\u201d It\u2019s worth noting here that we are neither officially nor technically at war with Yemen or its Houthis. To complicate matters further for Goldberg&#8217;s narrative regarding Ratcliffe allegedly revealing an active intelligence officer&#8217;s identity\u2014it turned out he had merely mentioned his chief of staff.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this clear overstatement by Goldberg regarding what transpired during these discussions\u2014especially when criticizing Ratcliffe for supposedly compromising CIA operatives&#8217; identities\u2014the media continued to exploit this incident for all it was worth; after all, &#8220;Signalgate&#8221; seemed promising when it first emerged! Thus came The New York Times\u2019 piece titled \u201cThe Leaked Signal Chat Annotated,\u201d which aimed to emphasize how serious everything appeared initially but ultimately admitted quietly that what had been presented as top-secret military discussions wasn\u2019t actually secure or confidential at all.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed\u2014a scandal predicated on government officials being foolish enough to conduct sensitive conversations via a public messaging app revealed instead that such chats lacked any real classified content whatsoever! A Friday message from National Security Advisor Mike Waltz indicated clearly where things stood: Government officials operate within both high-level (classified) systems and low-level (unclassified) systems; however, none of their conversation took place within either realm but rather on a publicly accessible platform.<\/p>\n<p>Let me reiterate once more: This doesn\u2019t excuse what happened\u2014it certainly wasn\u2019t good practice\u2014but acknowledging distinctions between high- and low-level communications suggests genuine sensitive material resided elsewhere\u2014not within some faux-secure Signal group being marketed as critical intelligence discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Why weren\u2019t these details communicated through proper channels? Simply put\u2014they didn\u2019t contain anything warranting such measures! There were no precise weapon specifications or operational timelines disclosed; no unmasking occurred; no actual war plans existed beyond administrative blunders amplified by sensational headlines over 48 hours until even The New York Times\u2019 annotators conceded there wasn&#8217;t any real substance behind this supposed scandal after all\u2014in essence resembling students accidentally including their professor in casual note-sharing before exams rather than anything remotely resembling national security threats!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2417058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Signal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[52395,52396,4633,52070],"class_list":["post-2417057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-high-side","tag-meaning-2","tag-scandal","tag-signal-leak"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Signal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417061,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417057\/revisions\/2417061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2417058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}