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How Serious was the War Plans Group Chat? The Moynihan Report with Peter Meijer and Ken Klippenstein

Season 1, Ep. 3

On this edition of The Moynihan Report, Michael Moynihan talks about the Signal "war plans" leak with former U.S. Representative and Iraq War veteran Peter Meijer, and investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein.


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(00:00) Intro: Signalgate

(09:10) Peter Meijer on Information Security

(19:10) How Serious was the Leak?

(23:30) Trump’s Foreign Policy

(32:30) Ken Klippenstein on Goldberg’s Reporting

(43:30) Declassifying Government Secrets

(50:20) US Grand Strategy

(58:36) State of the GOP and the Dems


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