1. United States
2. Alaska
3. Letter

Senior members of the Trump administration planned the March 15th attack on Yemen over signal and a member of the press was accidentally let in on it. The others in on the chat included Michael Walz Trump’s national security advisor, Secretary of State Mark Rubio, Vice President J. D. Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Central Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. Signal is a widely used app that is decidedly not a part of the national security system. The decision to use the app was an attempt to hide conversations since by law government communications must be archived. The use of Signal violates the Espionage Act which establishes how officials must handle information about national defense. The app is not approval for national security use and officials are supposed to discuss military activity in a sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) or to use approved government equipment. The use of signal itself is a dangerous brief but accidentally allowing a reporter without clearance in on the conversation is mind boggling. Senator John Ossoff had it write when he said My first reaction was what absolute clowns. Total amateur hour reckless dangerous this is what happens when you have basically Fox News personalities cosplaying at government officials.” Foreign policy scholar Timothy Snyder who wrote a book on authoritarianism says that “These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house. Former CIA national security advisor Matt Castelli posted “This is more than loose lips sink ships, this is a criminally negligent breach of classified information and war planning involving VP, SecDef, CIA(detector), National Security Advisor all putting troops at risk. America is not safe.” It is especially falling since Republicans have used alleged national security breaches to hammer Democrats. Trump rise to power on the claim to lock Hillary Clinton up. The galling ways of putting our national security at risk by communicating war plans on signal and hooking up unsecured hard drives and giving Musk’s young syncopants access to source code and private data across multiple agencies and departments show how incompetent the Trump administration is. We turned into a literal clown show worse than idiocracy.