{"id":37333,"date":"2025-03-29T12:44:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T12:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/the-signal-chat-exposes-the-administrations-incompetence-and-its-pecking-order-sidney-blumenthal\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T12:44:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T12:44:53","slug":"the-signal-chat-exposes-the-administrations-incompetence-and-its-pecking-order-sidney-blumenthal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/the-signal-chat-exposes-the-administrations-incompetence-and-its-pecking-order-sidney-blumenthal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Signal chat exposes the administration\u2019s incompetence \u2013 and its pecking order | Sidney Blumenthal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The discussion revealed unserious people who don\u2019t know when to keep quiet, with Stephen Miller as the real boss<\/p>\n<p>On 13 March, Donald Trump\u2019s national security adviser, Michael Waltz, who was the policy director for two secretaries of defense and was a member of the House intelligence committee, sent a message on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/signal-group-chat-leak\">the commercial Signal app<\/a>: \u201cTeam \u2013 establishing a principles group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours.\u201d \u201cThe Houthis PC small group\u201d would oversee a US air attack on the Houthis in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Waltz\u2019s extensive professional background, he misspelled \u201cprincipals\u201d as \u201cprinciples\u201d \u2013 perhaps an ordinary typo, but symptomatic of the shambles to come. Although the secretaries of defense, state and treasury, the director of national intelligence, the CIA director, the vice-president, and the president\u2019s chief of staff were among the 18 people included, neither the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, who is a statutory member of the principals committee of the National Security Council, nor any military designee was invited into this group. Instead, the editor of the Atlantic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/27\/who-is-jeffrey-goldberg-atlantic-signal-chat-leak\">Jeffrey Goldberg<\/a>, was sent a link. Waltz noted: \u201cJoint Staff is sending this am a more specific sequence of events in the coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/mar\/29\/signal-chat-trump-incompetence-stephen-miller\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discussion revealed unserious people who don\u2019t know when to keep quiet, with Stephen Miller as the real boss On 13 March, Donald Trump\u2019s national security adviser, Michael Waltz, who was the policy director for two secretaries of defense and was a member of the House intelligence committee, sent a message on the commercial Signal &#8230; <a title=\"The Signal chat exposes the administration\u2019s incompetence \u2013 and its pecking order | Sidney Blumenthal\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/the-signal-chat-exposes-the-administrations-incompetence-and-its-pecking-order-sidney-blumenthal\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Signal chat exposes the administration\u2019s incompetence \u2013 and its pecking order | Sidney Blumenthal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}