Forget the Trump administration's buffoonery — here's the real crisis

Forget the Trump administration's buffoonery — here's the real crisis

We should talk about the prevailing reaction to Signalgate – utter disbelief. People who know something about national security, military affairs, government secrets and federal law appear to be stunned by the clowns, idiots and buffoons who “accidentally texted” the classified planning of airstrikes on Yemeni Houthis to the editor of The Atlantic.Michael Bennet is an example of this reaction. During testimony, the US senator from Colorado asked…

'Absolutely bizarre': Congressman stunned by Trump administration's defense of Signalgate

Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) had nothing but scorn on CNN for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's latest defense of the burgeoning "Signalgate" scandal, where active war plans against Houthi rebels in Yemen were leaked to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg in a group Signal chat between several Trump administration national security and defense officials.Hegseth's new argument is to claim that it wasn't even a problem, because in the leaked information, "Ther…