WATCH: Anti-Hegesth Editor “Might Have Exposed Himself to Potential Criminal Liability”

Things keep getting worse for The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg: not only has his smear job of a story about Pete Hegseth already been discredited by the Trump Administration as “sensationalist” and “deliberately false and misleading,” but it appears that he might have exposed himself to criminal liability with the report.

Such is what Fox News Channel’s Mark Levin explained to viewers during the opening monologue portion of his Saturday, March 29 broadcast of his “Life, Liberty, and Levin” program on FNC. During that monologue, Levin informed viewers that if Goldberg’s claim that Hegseth and the others divulged classified information in the Signal chat is true, which he doesn’t think it is, then Goldberg could face criminal penalties for releasing that classified information in the pages of The Atlantic.

After beginning with a lengthy diatribe about how Goldberg acted wrongly in hiding in the chat after being added to it by accident, Levin noted that his disclosure of supposedly classified information could lead to major legal trouble for him, as disclosing such information publicly is quite illegal.

Making that point, Levin said that it is not Hegseth and the others that ought to be interviewed, but rather Goldberg. He said, “The person worth interviewing is Goldberg. Why did you stay on the text chain? Did you speak to anybody after the texting occurred? To whom did you speak? Did you speak to anybody after you put out your first article saying, hey, everybody, guess what? I was on a text. Did you do that?”

Continuing, Levin noted that Goldberg claimed the information he released was classified, which would mean that releasing it was illegal “espionage.” He said, beginning that point, “How about the second time around? Were you actually, in your own words, you revealed the contents, or some of them, classified information. You’re kind of a fool. Are you guilty of revealing classified information? Uh-oh. Forget about that, that’s espionage, but anyway, what about it? Well, I have a better idea, let’s keep moving on this.”

Explaining the espionage claim at a different point in the interview, Levin said, “[Goldberg] chose to write about it as a scoop. He wanted to inflict maximum political damage, he hoped, on the administration without endangering the mission. And I might — I might add, he’s been patted on the head for that. He didn’t put it out and endangered the mission. Well, he might have exposed himself to potential criminal liability by revealing the mission if he did. He may have already done that. Mark, what do you mean? Well, here, 18 USC Section 798, I think we’ve all heard of the Espionage Act, haven’t we? Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates and publishes blah-blah-blah classified information?”

Watch Levin sound off on Goldberg here:

Levin – Does Jeffrey Goldberg have Criminal Liability? Is he guilty of the Espionage Act? He published ‘Classified Information’.

I remember someone else who did that… Julian Assange@DNIGabbard @CIADirector @FBIDirectorKash pic.twitter.com/H5aBAR777w

— Joni Job (@jj_talking) March 30, 2025

Later in the monologue, Levin noted that Democrats have long defended the traitor Alger Hiss despite his espionage, saying, “Remember Alger Hiss? Most people don’t, but I do. He was a State Department official, also turns out, he was a Soviet spy in the 1930s. He was convicted of perjury in 1950 because the statute of limitation has run on espionage, the Democrats defended him for half a century.”

Adding to that, Levin noted, elaborating on his point about Alger Hiss, “Oh, Alger Hiss. No way, Alger Hiss. Yes, way. And during this time, he was advising Franklin Roosevelt about Yalta, a communist spy. And what happened at Yalta? Well, they only divided up Germany and the rest of Europe. Stalin, FDR and Churchill, now that to me, now that’s a big screw up, don’t you think? It’s not a mistake. It’s a screw up.”

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