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Robert Tait in Washington

Who is Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist who broke the Signal leak scandal?

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Jeffrey Goldberg introducing a performance during the Atlantic Festival 2024 in Washington DC. Photograph: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for The Atlantic

Though exactly how Jeffrey Goldberg ended up on a Signal group chat to discuss what were meant to be secret plans to bomb Yemen remains a mystery, posterity may render it one of recent US history’s most serendipitous chance encounters.

Had the fates been conspiring to add a journalist to the forum whose presence would inflict the maximum discomfort to Trump and his circle, they could hardly have chosen a more fitting candidate.

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