{"id":16958,"date":"2025-03-26T11:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16958"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:49:48","slug":"the-atlantic-should-not-find-out-about-a-war-before-congress-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16958","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic Should Not Find Out About a War Before Congress Does"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic<\/em>, reported<\/a> on Monday that he had been added by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz to an encrypted Signal group chat with the White House’s principals committee<\/a> to discuss U.S. war plans in Yemen. Goldberg received the first message at 11:44 a.m. on Saturday, March 15, and around two hours later, the White House announced a new air campaign<\/a> against Houthi forces. The National Security Council confirmed<\/a> the group chat was real and claimed Goldberg was added by accident<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The constitutional and policy merits of war are two separate questions, but they’re impossible to fully disentangle. The point of asking Congress for a declaration of war is to allow the people’s representatives to weigh the pros and cons in a deliberate, transparent way. War is the most serious decision a government can make. Citizens of a republic should not have to perform Kremlinology<\/a>\u2014or wait for an official to fat-finger<\/a> his contact list\u2014to figure out what their leaders are planning.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/03\/25\/the-atlantic-should-not-find-out-about-a-war-before-congress-does<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, reported on Monday that he had been added by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz to an encrypted Signal group chat with the White House’s principals committee to discuss U.S. war plans in Yemen. Goldberg received the first message at 11:44 a.m. on Saturday, March 15, and around two hours later, the White House announced a new air campaign against Houthi forces. The National Security Council confirmed the group chat was real and claimed Goldberg was added by accident.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The constitutional and policy merits of war are two separate questions, but they’re impossible to fully disentangle. The point of asking Congress for a declaration of war is to allow the people’s representatives to weigh the pros and cons in a deliberate, transparent way. War is the most serious decision a government can make. Citizens of a republic should not have to perform Kremlinology\u2014or wait for an official to fat-finger his contact list\u2014to figure out what their leaders are planning.”<\/p>\n

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