You may think my title is a bit over the top, but consider the following:
As far back as 2023, the Defense Department had sent a memo warning government officials not to use the Signal texting system for any official government meetings - warning it was capable of being hacked by Russia.
NSA Mike Waltz arranged a meeting of defense and security officials using the Signal system.
Waltz then accidentally(?) added a journalist to the text group Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic.
Defense Department head Pete Hegseth then posted the particulars of an attack on Yemen to the group (even though the group didn't need to know the specifics of the attack).
Once the attack was completed and the journalist reported the security blunder, Tulsi Gabbard told Congress that no secret intelligence was discussed in the text meeting. But that was a lie. Hegseth's text had included the name of the country to be attacked, the specific places within the country to be attacked, the times each attack would happen, and the particular weapons to be used in the attacks - all top secret information.
Any soldier that revealed this type of information before an attack - to a journalist or anyone else - would have been severely punished and probably criminally charged. But these guys will not have to pay, because the narcissist-in-chief can't admit any mistakes, and won't let anyone else in his administration do so.
That doesn't change the fact though. They were careless and incompetent. And that should worry the American people - and our allies.
