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When Signal met the Senate

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If you read Monday’s piece in The Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg—and our breakdown here at The Contrarian—you already know the backdrop: senior Trump officials used Signal, a commercial encrypted messaging app, to coordinate a military strike, mistakenly added a journalist, an

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