It sounds like the kind of thing that would only happen in a political comedy show, but the Trump administration really did leak military plans to The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg by mistakenly adding him to a group chat.
“Oopsie poopsie!” says Jon Stewart in the Daily Show clip above. “Back in my day, if you were a journalist that wanted leaked war documents you’d work the sources, meet them in a dark garage, earn the trust, pound the pavement…now, you just wait for the national security advisor to be distracted by White Lotus while he’s setting up his ‘bomb Yemen’ group chat.”
Stewart goes on to say that his favourite part of the leaked chat was a comment from defence secretary Pete Hegseth, who reportedly wrote, “We are currently clear on OPSEC.”
“For those of you who don’t know, OPSEC means operational security,” says Stewart. “He said that in a group chat. A group chat with a journalist.”
