United States| Wrong signal
A leak reveals Team Trump’s carelessness, and contempt for allies
How a magazine editor was accidentally added to a top-secret chat group
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MANY KNOW the mortification of sending the wrong text message to the wrong person. But when the fat thumb is that of America’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, the message is a detailed military plan to bomb Yemen and the recipient is a prominent journalist, the error is not just a cause of shame but potentially a serious breach of national security.