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“The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen.” “I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.” Sounds like a teaser for a spy novel huh? But no. It’s reporting by an editor of The Atlantic outlining how he was looped into a Pentagon meeting of Trump officials for strategic planning to bomb Yemen. He got to hear alllllll the details. Opinions. Discussions. Self- congratulations all around. Shouldn’t this raise the possibility of violations of federal laws such as the Espionage Act, which makes it a crime to mishandle national defense information? Or is just going to be another giant whoopsie to excuse by inexperienced people in charge of the government? Shouldn’t a mistake such as this prompt an investigation by the FBI and the Justice Department’s national security division? If lower-level government officials made a similar mistake, there’s little doubt there would be consequences. Pentagon regulations specifically state that messaging apps, including Signal, “are NOT authorized to access, transmit, process non-public DoD information.” While y’all are having hearings trying to impeach judges for doing their jobs under the Constitution, maybe you should ask why and how a security breach of this magnitude happened? Maybe we should ask the President? “I don’t know anything about it,” Trump told reporters on Monday when asked about The Atlantic piece. “I’m not a big fan of the Atlantic. It’s, to me, it’s a magazine that’s going out of business. I think it’s not much of a magazine. But I know nothing about it,” Trump said. “It couldn’t have been very effective, because the attack was very effective. I can tell you, I don’t know anything about it. You’re telling me about it for the first time,” he added. Does he know he should know things like this? Does he know he’s the President? I think his belief is that other folks will handle it all and just tell him when to show up to sign something. Or shill something. “Somebody needs to get fired,” former Defense Secretary and CIA Director Leon Panetta told CNN. “How the name of a journalist was added to that list – this is just a serious blunder,” he said, noting that if it had been someone other The Atlantic they “could reveal this information immediately to the Houthis in Yemen that they were about to be attacked and they in turn could have… attacked US facilities in the Red Sea, causing casualties of our troops.” Who needs enemies abroad when we have these guys? What a group of incompetents. Does any of this bother you?