Does the "chatgate" story have legs

The left is making this out to be the biggest story since Watergate.

Let's be clear, the left is not going to let this one go any time soon. This is "pounce time". Trump has suggested that he is not looking to fire anyone and is writing it off as a mistake and that the team would learn from it. Obviously Michael Waltz appears responsible for the flub, but the left would much rather see Pete Hegseth fired over the issue, for no other reasons that they dislike Hegseth. The calls will likely continue until

This is one of those situations where technology is a problem when we get down to anything security related. Remember all of the arguments over Hillary Clinton using a unsecured blackberry to read email and discuss possible security issues. Our intelligence community suggested with 100% certainty that the blackberry was hacked by foreign sources. The bigger problem there was that Clinton was not supposed to be allowed to have a cell phone that was secured, but worked as if her blackberry (attached to her personal server) was secured.

I don't know much about the chat app used, but it appears to be one of those disappearing chat apps, where your history is automatically deleted after so long. This would mean that Goldberg (the journalist inadvertently invited) likely saved off the information in order to report it after the fact. Obviously he did nothing prior to the attack, which alone is fairly admirable. But was not willing to just let it go. For me, I am not sure why you are "chatting" over a potential military action. I would think that is a better oral conversation than a written one. But that might just be my old fashioned thinking. Either way, I believe this is going to just continue to be more of an issue as we go more electronic in all of our conversations, even national security ones.

Now I am not sure the strategy talks about whether or not to attack Houthis is truly a national security concern. Everyone knew Trump was suggesting it and we could expect that it was likely being considered by the team. I don't know that any of that was a secret. They also didn't divulge any actual plans, just people discussing the pros and cons of such an attack. While it might not be "much ado about nothing" it certainly isn't as serious of national security concern as what Hillary did with her private server and unsecured blackberry communicating with it. Something we know caused national security issues. This was a potential issue that nobody would have even known about had Goldberg decided not to release the information or had not paid attention to. Was it a fuck up? Sure. Was it worthy of anyone getting fired?

Well, I guess we should as those calling for someone to be fired if they voted for Hillary Clinton?