Joseph Bosco
President Trump has just carried out the first of what may be a series of Cabinet changes, especially in the national security area. He removed Michael Waltz from his position as national security adviser, nominated him as ambassador to the United Nations, and placed Secretary of State Marco Rubio as interim national security advisor. Trump is reportedly deliberating as to whether he needs a permanent replacement in that position at all.
Waltz was fired ostensibly because of his role in the Signal scandal, when he somehow added Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to a high-level official discussion of U.S. operational plans for a bombing attack in Yemen. Public disclosure of that classified information gravely endangered participating U.S. forces and could have caused a catastrophic failure of the mission. That it did not was probably because enemy intelligence services failed to monitor the Signal platform, assuming that American officials would not be so reckless and incompetent as to place classified operational plans on an unclassified platform.
Incredibly, the administration continued to use a “modified version” of Signal for other sensitive Pentagon communications even after this embarrassing and potentially fatal error.
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