Comment by refurb
8 months ago
“Abysmal” mistake seems excessive.
Basically a journalist was added to a discussion group of high ranking politicians.
This journalist is well known within those circles and has plenty of access to those people regardless.
The conversation may have been war plans, but the action is pretty uncontroversial across both parties, and went off without a problem so the impact of the leak was nil.
Seems like a great topic for making political hay, but twins that a mistake that can be easily corrected.
Fine, deeply embarrassing on an international front that your highest level intelligence agency can't do Op Sec securely.
I can't imagine having my personal secure commentary being put out into the public and I don't have national security under my belt.