Max Boot
The “Signal scandal” — the fact that top Trump administration officials planned military strikes using the Signal messaging app and included the editor in chief of the Atlantic in their supposedly secret discussions — shows what happens when a president selects senior officials for personal loyalty rather than competence or experience. Thus, you have Cabinet-level appointees and the vice president engaging in shocking “op sec” (operational security) breaches that, if committed by a lower-ranking official, likely would result in immediate dismissal and possible criminal charges.
It is no coincidence that the defense secretary (Pete Hegseth) is a former Fox News weekend host and junior army officer, or that the vice president (JD Vance) is a former junior senator from Ohio and Marine Corps corporal. They are simply not used to engaging in such top-level national security decision-making, and it shows. Presidential envoy Steve Witkoff — a wealthy property developer who has never previously served in government — denies accessing the text traffic while he was in Moscow negotiating with President Vladimir Putin, writing on X that he did not take his “personal devices” with him to Russia. That still suggests, however, that he was involved in highly sensitive government communications on “personal devices” when not in Russia.
No comments:
Post a Comment