Conpiratorial it may be, but the fact that it "happened" to be Goldberg who was the "journalist" involved makes me wonder if the whole thing wasn't deliberately engineered by a faction that is unhappy with the, admittedly enormously unqualified and inept, defsec or natsec heads.

It's been followed-up with fairly well coordinated "calls to quite" type articles and segments.

It could of course just be that a massively unqualifed frat-boy piss head who's been overpromoted because he's a loyalist fucked up.