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Philip Bump
@pbump.com

The point of holding people to account for, say, sharing details of an impending military attack in a group chat isn't just punitive. It's also to send a message — to other officials, to Americans and esp here to our allies — that we recognize it was a bad thing to do. Gift link: wapo.st/41KwEMf

wapo.stOpinion | The point of accountability is to reinforce that bad things are badAnd the lack of accountability means that acceptance of lawlessness will be further embraced by partisans.
Philip Bump
@pbump.com

what a shock

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Breaking News: Attorney General Pam Bondi suggested that there was not likely to be a criminal inquiry into the sharing of military plans in an unsecured chat.

nytimes.comBondi Suggests Signal Chat Episode Is Unlikely to Be Criminally InvestigatedThe attorney general said the focus should be on the success of the U.S. military strike in Yemen, not that military information was shared in advance in a group text among top officials.

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Philip Bump
@pbump.com

To quote myself from the post linked at the top of the thread: "Never before has a less credible group of officials ever led the U.S. government."

Kim Zimmerman
@kimzimm.bsky.social

They want to whitewash this monumental screwup & focus everyone’s attention on the “success” of the mission — a mission carried out by people who would be investigated, possibly jailed, & thrown out of the military, if they’d done anything like this. It’s more patriotism rah rah distraction.