Good thing they have the moral high ground now that they’ve called the White House’s bluff.

His work with The Young Turks started as early as 2018.[18] In 2020, Klippenstein joined The Nation as their D.C. correspondent.[8] On April 30, 2024, Klippenstein announced in his newsletter that he was resigning from The Intercept and would primarily work on his own.[5]

On September 26, 2024, Klippenstein shared a dossier on vice-presidential candidate JD Vance, reportedly hacked from the Trump campaign and subsequently leaked by Iran, in his newsletter and linked to it from his X account.[19][20] Klippenstein’s Twitter account was then suspended.[21]

On December 10, 2024, Klippenstein published an alleged full text manifesto of Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of Brian Thompson.[22] In an interview with Democracy Now!, Klippenstein blamed paternalistic attitudes in corporate media and the possibility of alienating law enforcement sources for the reluctance to publish the alleged manifesto’s full text.[23][24]

I was unaware the classified information being “boring” was a good reason for a news outlet to self censor.

Well, yes it is. Having no public interest is the definition of boring. The pentagon papers 1. were about things in the past 2. told that the US was lying about the scope of its involvement and strikes in the Vietnam war 3. involve previously-unknown motivations and thus are not boring especially in light of point 2. On the other hand, it is extremely conceivable that the unleaked chat room parts 1. contain future strike targets 2. have no untold of past targets 3. are, in fact ,boring, most likely just “at X am move Y battleship to Z position and fire at A”.

Publishing future war plans can compromise military operation, which is going to get you prosecuted very heavily and in the spirit of national security laws already passed and make a lot of normal people really angry at you.

https://lemm.ee/comment/19187548

Meanwhile, there is no public interest about the precise movements of the military in executing an operation the scale of which is known.

only the most innocuous tidbits like what emojis different officials used and their goofy backslapping

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/world/europe/signal-jeffrey-goldberg-message-hegseth.html

Now Europe Knows What Trump’s Team Calls It Behind Its Back: ‘Pathetic’

That was worth it. The chat messages seem to be boring war plans and verbal attacks on Europe. There seems to be little public service value in the unpublished.

what’s hitchless lol

because your eyes are covered in them