7 hours agoScandal in Trump cabinet, sends journalist a secret war plan
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)There are few more sensitive American presidential actions, more dangerously charged than when and where the American military force can be used. If such information were to be obtained in advance by American opponents, it could risk the lives and objectives of national foreign policy, the BBC writes, Pryscopi notes. Fortunately for [...]
Fortunately for the Trump administration, a group conversation with information about a US attack on Yemen among senior national security officials on the encrypted Signal chat app did not fall into the wrong hands.
The beginning of the message was observed by an influential political journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg.
The editor-in-chief of Atlantic magazine, in an article posted on his website Monday, says he appears to have been accidentally added to the conversation by White House National Security Adviser Michael Waltz.
Group members seemed to include Vice President JD Vance, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wildes and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, among other things.
A National Security Council spokesman told the BBC that the message with text “seems to be authentic”.
Goldberg says the group debated politics and discussed operational details about the imminent American military attack ? Talks offering a rare real-time look at the domestic work of Trump's top national security team.
“Amazing work,” wrote to the group, just a few minutes after the US attacks on the Yemenite targets occurred on Saturday, March 15th.
He went on to name an American flag, a fist and a fire. Other senior officials joined the group's congratulations.
However, these White House celebrations may be short-lived after Monday's revelations.
The fact that a foreigner could unwittingly grow in sensitive national defence talks represents an operational security failure by the Trump administration.
And the fact that these conversations were being held outside the secure government channels created for such sensitive communications could violate the Spillage Act, which defines rules for handling classified information.
This administration is playing fast and freely with the most classified information of our nation and that makes all Americans less secure,Senator Mark Warner from Virginia, the Democrat listed in the Senate Committee for Intelligence, in X.
