Barry McCaffrey

Senior Cabinet officials -- including the Vice President, Secretary of Defense, Director of National Intelligence, and the National Security Advisor -- were discussing highly classified war plans in Yemen on the messaging app Signal when Atlantic’s editor-in-chief was accidentally added to the group chat. Retired four-star general Barry McCaffrey called the slip-up "breathtaking incompetence" on "The Gee and Ursula Show" on KIRO Newsradio Tuesday.