Former US official: Signal group chat incident unprecedented

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00:00You've been privy to these kind of conversations.

00:03What are the typical operations for a discussion of this matter?

00:08And is it extremely controversial that an instant messaging platform

00:12like Signal would be used?

00:14We know it's encrypted.

00:16Well, yeah.

00:16I mean, the fact remains is this is somewhat unprecedented

00:19that this would happen over a instant messaging system such as this.

00:24I would note that, however,

00:27the cryptology that is used in these messages is far superior

00:31to what was being used 20 years ago over the most classified systems.

00:35And that doesn't excuse what happened here.

00:38But I think the typical trauma and drama

00:43and hair on fire drill that is going on in Washington right now

00:46is just absolutely unnecessary.

00:49The right response this morning when Jeffrey Goldberg wrote that story,

00:53and it was a good story,

00:54and I thank him for not revealing some of the details

00:58for fear of concerns over intelligence leaks.

01:01It's the answer should have been,

01:02look, we screwed up.

01:04We won't do it again.

01:05Now let's get on to business.