Don Wolfensberger at The Hill:
The biggest surprise about this whole brouhaha is that even experienced Washington hands did not expect the Signalgate scandal to have legs for long. After all, how many Americans know who the Houthis are, where Yemen is, or why the militants’ activities affect U.S. interests halfway around the globe?
And yet the sheer incompetence of the key players and their repeated denials that classified information was compromised was enough to cause attentive Americans to sit up and take notice of such peculiar behavior. People did not accept that this was a hoax or fake news. You can only fool some of the people some of the time.