There is a pattern on the Left that keeps repeating. When they cannot win an argument, they look for someone to expose, shame, or punish. Dox the person. Target the family. Turn attention into a weapon. It has become their last move when persuasion fails. If they even try persuasion first.

Doxxing First, Fact-Checking Later

After U.S. forces captured the drug-trafficking narco-terrorist and wanted fugitive Nicolas Maduro, a so-called investigative journalist named Seth Harp decided his contribution to public discourse would be to blast out an official image, declared that this officer had kidnapped the rightful president of Venezuela, and congratulated himself for doing what he framed as brave journalism.

As revenge for the U.S. arresting Nicolas Maduro, leftist writer Seth Harp posted the name, photo, and biographical details of a purported Delta Force commander he believes led the operation. The post went viral.

But Harp identified the wrong military member, putting an… pic.twitter.com/E0dpWtAlXE

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) January 5, 2026

A couple of problems here: he resorted to doxxing in the first place and then got the wrong guy.

The Line Between Journalism and Activism Was Crossed

The problem wasn’t just that he picked the wrong man. The problem is that he went after a man at all. Exposing special operators is reckless on its face, whether the details are accurate or not. In this case, he added another layer of stupidity by being wrong. The officer he blasted out wasn’t in command of the mission and wasn’t even anywhere near Venezuela. Harp wasn’t practicing journalism. He was chasing clicks and pretending it was courage. When did journalism transition into activism?

People who actually serve, along with veterans who know what exposure can mean for families and teammates, pushed back hard. And they were right to do so.

Harp couldn’t take the heat or requests for a statement from legitimate publications like “Soldier of Fortune,” so he locked down his X account. Whether you’re on the Left or the Right, the rage mob pretty much works the same. Commenters posted the number to Viking Books, which published his “bestselling” screed, and HBO, which purportedly now owns the rights to translate his novel to the screen. The X algorithm did the rest and locked him out of his account, probably for violation of the terms of service. According to Harp, he deleted the offending posts and others connected to his “critical inquiry” into Saturday’s op.

What a tremendous loss to journalism.

On Monday, Harp returned to X, account open again, and did what any self-serving weasel would do: He blamed the “fascist” far-right for their “ludicrous allegations of ‘doxxing’.” – RedState

There’s a Difference Between Accountability and Hunting People

We have always had journalists who question military operations. That is healthy. But there is a difference between analyzing policy and putting a target on someone’s back. Even publications like Soldier of Fortune don’t shy away from blunt criticism. But they also said exposing elite operators crosses lines that exist for a reason. Once a name is out there, it doesn’t go back in the box, and the consequences do not disappear when the post comes down.

And yet, this is where much of the modern Left lives now. If you can’t win the debate, attack the person. If you can’t defeat the mission, leak the names. If you can’t shame the policy, try instead to shame the men who carried it out.

Dox, dox, dox. It is the only tool some of them seem to have left.

When Your Agenda Matters More Than Getting It Right

Harp wasn’t trying to be transparent. He was mad, outraged. His activism outweighed any journalistic integrity. Harp framed the mission as an illegal invasion. He cast Maduro as a wronged leader. While painting Delta Force as villains. Then he tried to validate those claims by dangling what looked like classified secrets in front of an online mob.

And that backfired spectacularly, thankfully.

This Isn’t New Behavior — It’s His Brand

Seth Harp isn’t just some random blue-check on X. He’s built an entire career out of poking the U.S. military in the eye. A former Army reservist turned “investigative journalist,” Harp now writes for places like Rolling Stone and The Intercept and loves positioning himself as the lone truth-teller exposing America’s elite forces. His 2025 book, The Fort Bragg Cartel, painted Special Forces as a nest of crime and corruption, and he’s still riding that wave with TV buzz and bestseller bragging rights. In other words, Harp doesn’t stumble into these controversies. He goes looking for them, and he rarely passes up an opportunity to cast U.S. operators as the villains in his story.

From Archived Records to a Digital Firing Squad

Harp keeps insisting the information was public, as if that settles the argument. It doesn’t. There’s a difference between something buried in an archive and broadcasting it to millions while accusing the man of kidnapping a foreign president. The harm comes from exposure, not the filing cabinet it came from. When you take obscure details, place them in front of an angry online mob, and frame someone as a villain, you’re not informing the public. You’re painting a target.

🚨 BREAKING: Americans are calling for a CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION after a fake news reporter allegedly tried to DOX the identity of the Delta Force Commander – the highly secretive unit that carried out Maduro’s capture

“It’s legal to disclose classified material…”😠

Seth Harp… pic.twitter.com/jP7pRhoXxV

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 4, 2026

Justice Isn’t Found by Publishing Names

The Left has spent years building a culture in which exposure equals justice. Find the name. Publish the address. Humiliate the target. Call it activisim. When they aim at corporations or politicians, they convince themselves it is righteous. When that same impulse turns toward men who silently carry out extraordinary missions, it comes something far uglier.

This time, the story backfired. Harp doxxed the wrong man. He revealed his own bias. And instead of exposing wrongdoing, he only reinforced why so many Americans no longer trust the media to tell the truth.

Critique the mission if you want. Argue the law. Push the White House to explain decisions made in our name. That is the job of citizens. But doxxing soldiers is not speaking truth to power. It is theater with a body count risk.

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