I write as a U.S. Army veteran with a top secret clearance who, during the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962, locked and loaded nuclear warheads on a tactical missile. When orders came the threat had diminished, we stood them down. We kept quiet about our deployment, followed orders and did our job. We were professionals at Defcon 2, just 30 minutes from a potential World War III.
Recent news that details of an attack on Houthi terrorists in Yemen including targets, weapons employed and modes of attack were leaked on an unsecured web site to a magazine editor from a list including Vice President JD Vance, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe and Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as well as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and others, convinces me they are rank amateurs and that just scares the hell out of me (“Exposure of Trump administration war plans is ‘mind-boggling,’ top Democrat tells intel officials,” March 25).
It should terrify everyone else. To cap the clown show, when President Donald Trump was asked about the leak, he said he knew nothing about it and denigrated the magazine whose editor was given the leak.
Federal judges are beginning to restrict the current administration’s running roughshod over the U.S. Constitution, rule of law, humanitarian aid, scientific research and the common good. It is time for citizens and Congress and the few Republicans left who can walk straight while chewing gum to join them.
— Stan Heuisler, Baltimore
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