As another former career intelligence officer, I found the Signal conversation infuriating in itself. It’s the worst kind of breach of operational security. But even more infuriating has been the Administration’s response to try to dissemble and downplay the incident while clearly signaling that they have zero interest to undertake a serious review either to hold individuals accountable or learn from the incident to try to avoid similar future incidents like this.
As you point out, our adversari…