In the Signal chat, Mike Waltz seems to add SM--believed to be Stephen Miller--to rebut JD Vance's doubts about the Houthi strike.

The desperate panic to deny the gravity of this situation, however, is a real testament to the contempt in which the White House holds the men and women whose lives were put at risk -- may still be at risk -- because their Defense Secretary is so incompetent he can't bother with the least little OpSec.

Until Trump starts attacking Republican law firm Jones Day for doing the same things the firms he is targeting also do, people have to stop giving Trump's excuses for the attacks on law firms any credence.

Kristi Noem is trying to cover up a lot of embarrassing details with her invocation of State Secrets in the Alien Enemies Act deportation case. But among the most embarrassing for a transphobe like her is that she misidentified the sex of nine of the detainees, sending women when Nayib Bukele would only accept men.

It's not just that Mike Waltz accidentally added the wrong person to a Signal chat, the cover story Trump has adopted. Trump's entire national security team was witness to an egregious breach that might be a crime. All should resign in disgrace.