Signalgate is distracting us from more serious issues in Yemen

It has been a rough week for national security adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the rest of the Trump administration’s national security team. The so-called Signalgate catastrophe, in which Waltz organized a top-secret chat on the Signal messenger application about pending U.S. airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, only to accidentally add one of Washington’s most famous journalists to the conversation, is the epitome of a blunder. The White House’s attempts at damage control - at one point, Waltz insisted he couldn’t pick journalist Jeffrey Goldberg out of a lineup, only for an old picture to surface of the two of them standing next to each other at the French Embassy in Washington - has created only more problems.