Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

Wrong signal

There's an alarming casualness to guarding America's most sensitive information

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Elise Labott
Mar 25, 2025
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In a supermarket parking lot on March 15, The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg sat in his car, eyes fixed on his phone, watching America's war plans against an Iranian proxy unfold in real-time. Two hours later, explosions rocked Yemen's capital city as U.S. bombs found their Houthi targets – precisely …

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