I'm curious what Nicholas thinks of the suggestion by Sarah Longwell/JV Last and Josh Marshall that this has a broader implication: the group are almost certainly routinely using Signal in order to avoid creating a public record of their discussions about the activities they are engaged in. That would make it difficult to convict them were they ever to be charged for running what appears to be an autogolpe.
I'm curious what Nicholas thinks of the suggestion by Sarah Longwell/JV Last and Josh Marshall that this has a broader implication: the group are almost certainly routinely using Signal in order to avoid creating a public record of their discussions about the activities they are engaged in. That would make it difficult to convict them were they ever to be charged for running what appears to be an autogolpe.
I think that's likely a main reason, and that they're almost certainly doing it with other things as well.
Other factors in this case:
-a broad disdain for experts, rule-followers, laws, and proper procedures
-carelessness, stupidity, sloppiness
-prioritizing domestic power for themselves, not really thinking in terms of national interest (or seeing no difference between the two)