I'm just thinking, what would I do - or expect to happen - if by some circumstance I found MYSELF privy to a high profile meeting where they were discussing "war plans"?
What would happen to ME - if in the middle of the meeting - someone noticed "hey who's this Sam person listening in on everything"?
I'd be like that guy in HP:Goblet of Fire who happened to spy on Voldemort.
As a reporter/journalist with any integrity, you would think he had an obligation to report... You know... actual news.
It certainly is news that somebody on the National Security team created a text chat thread with an "unknown" unauthorized person in it. I think that's definitely newsworthy. I also don't think it's wrong to say that the American public SHOULD know about a major faux pas Eff Up like this.
Any journalist on the "right side of the aisle" would have reported it -had it been Biden's team.
This journalist chose to handle it in a sensational manner by sitting on it until the day before this big hearing was held. If he wasn't trying to make thew ABOUT HIMSELF, he would have just broken the story.