It is almost impossible to believe that more than a dozen of the Trump administration’s most senior officials would convene on Signal to approve a strike on Yemen. Why? Three reasons: security, security and security.

Yet this happened. So the first questions are why and what are the immediate and longer-term consequences?

By way of context, during World War II in 1942, the U.S. Navy intercepted Japanese radio traffic and concluded that their target was Midway Island using basic signals analysis research. Don’t China, Iran, North Korea, Russia and the United Kingdom also do this?

It’s a safe bet that Atlantic Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who was incredibly included in these communications, was not the only outside eavesdropper.

Second, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was a retired Army Reserve colonel. It is difficult to understand that, after all the security clearance documents he would have signed regarding handling classified material, using Signal would not seem like a problem.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a Reserve lieutenant colonel, should have possessed the same caution. Yet no one did.

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