Source: Foreign Policy
by Calder Walton
“The Signal scandal that engulfed Washington last week constitutes a major breach of US national security. To say that it was an egregious error to invite a national security reporter into deliberations of a National Security Council (NSC) group discussing US strikes on foreign soil is an understatement, though acknowledging it as such is not something that the Trump administration has yet managed to do. In fact, it is much worse than a mistake: it has clear costs for national security and counterintelligence. … But this is not the first time that senior White House officials have accidentally disclosed classified information to US journalists. From a historical perspective, accidental release of classified information is, as the military like to say, Situation Normal All F*cked Up (SNAFU).”