Hanlon's Razor

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and Vice President JD Vance were caught discussing American Plans to attack the Houthis in Yemen when a senior editor for the The Atlantic was accidentally - and apparently without anyone noticing - added to a text conversation thru the messaging app, Signal.

If this was the case of a military officer or an intelligence officer and they engaged in this sort of behavior they would be fired. 

This is not a one-off or first-time error.  Sensitive information should never, ever, be discussed over an unclassified system.  This is another example of sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified information.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.