Asked to comment on news Monday that senior members of the Trump administration disclosed plans for the March 15 attack on the Houthis in Yemen over an app which is not part of the U.S. national security system, Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff (pictured) declared “What absolute clowns.”
“My first reaction… was ‘what absolute clowns.’ Total amateur hour, reckless, dangerous…. [T]his is what happens when you have basically Fox News personalities cosplaying as government officials,” Ossoff, a Democrat, told Brian Tyler Cohen, a progressive YouTuber, podcast host, author, political commentator, actor and MSNBC contributor.
But it’s not just Democrats who are appalled at what happened.
Armed Services Committee member Don Bacon (R-NE), a former Air Force brigadier general, told Axios that “sending this info over non-secure networks” was “unconscionable. Russia and China are surely monitoring his unclassified phone.”
Some of those in the room at the Pentagon when this happened are among those who once accused then–secretary of state Hillary Clinton of such a breach, while calling for firings, accountability, and perhaps criminal charges. Trump, himself, while campaigning in 2016, referring to Clinton declared “Lock her up!”
Clinton, following Monday’s disclosure, wrote on social media: “You have got to be kidding me.”
You can read the latest on this story here: White House mistakenly shares Yemen war plans with a journalist at The Atlantic – SRN News
