US defense secretary Pete Hegseth tried to discredit the Atlantic editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, after top Trump cabinet members inadvertently added the magazine’s editor to a group chat discussing secret military plans for recent US attacks on the Houthi armed group in Yemen in a serious security breach.
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Key figures in the Trump administration – including the vice-president, JD Vance, the defense secretary Pete Hegseth, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard – used the commercial chat app Signal to convene and discuss plans – while also including the prominent journalist in the group.
Hegseth also denies ‘texting war plans’ – despite Brian Hughes, a spokesperson for the national security council, confirming the Atlantic’s report. He told the magazine: ‘This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain.’
Signal is not approved by the US government for sharing sensitive information.
On the Senate floor on Monday, the minority leader, Chuck Schumer, called it ‘one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I have read about in a very, very long time’ and urged Republicans to seek a ‘full investigation into how this happened, the damage it created and how we can avoid it in the future’.
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