Mike Waltz goofed when he set up top-level chat on unclassified Signal app. Pete Hegseth made it worse.

What a week in Washington, D.C.

It began Monday, March 24, when Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, a magazine President Donald Trump has on his enemies list, revealed he was inadvertently invited to a high-level group chat with more than a dozen of the nation’s top national security officials. The group chat contained secret plans to unleash a punishing campaign of air and missile strikes against the Houthis in Yemen in an attempt to end their threat to international shipping once and for all.

By all accounts, the opening salvo of the military operation, which is still occurring, was a roaring success. But the fallout from the group chat was a disaster. It distracted from the mission, resulting in a vicious blame game and combative attempts

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