What is just breathtaking about the signal war plans story is that they *could* have done this for years with nobody knowing. It’s a real risk, one that could have of course resulted in adversaries intercepting the US’s secret information. But they can’t stop being *flagrant* incompetent fuckups for even a few seconds, making the worst mistake possible (including an editor of a major publication!) almost immediately. Truly they are a towering, living monument to dysfunction.