John Bolton
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But having...
chat groups where you're writing two or three sentences.
This is not what you would call sophisticated national security analysis at work and on an unsecure channel.
It just is no excuse for it.
I give Michael Waltz credit that at least he took responsibility for it.
I'll go back to what I said before.
I was just speechless when I heard about it.
There's not a
a GS-10 in the government that hasn't had that briefing multiple times.
And it struck me this was a group formed after a decision had been made, which also indicates there wasn't a lot of thought into the original decision.
I have no trouble stopping the Hooties from interdicting the Suez Canal Red Sea Maritime Passage, but
But this is not the way to make decisions about how to do it, nor is there any need for Pete Hegseth to communicate information about what's happening operationally to anybody on that chat other than Waltz, who needs to know in case he has to tell the president.
The rest of them can learn about it after it's over.
Yeah, there's a corollary to that theory.
Larry Silberman, a judge on the D.C.
Circuit, said he said, you know, in the federal government, 99 percent of all conspiracies are
turn out to be simple mess-ups.
He used a different word, but that's what he had in mind.
I think that's what's going on here.
I just think these are people who have not been in these kinds of situations before.
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