The dynamics around this Signal / Atlantic leak are interesting. It was obvious from the start that Trump’s people were using Signal in order to circumvent federal record-keeping requirements, but only hard-core procedural nerds on social media noted that. Everyone else got sucked into mediated pearl-clutching over the opsec aspect. Lib / prog / left types got sucked into that framing too, rather than focus on the underlying issues that — you’d think — should be consistent with their rhetoric: opposition to militarism, to US as globocop, to arbitrary attacks, to targeting individuals, etc. And, at a time when the very idea of Congressional oversight is under ideological attack as such, the Senate sprang into action immediately and is holding hearings? I really get the sense that no one believes anything, and everyone’s stuck on some endless political cosplay treadmill.