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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Beaumont

Exploitable flaws: what US adversaries could learn from White House security failure

JD Vance, Pete Hegseth and Mike Waltz sit next to each other on a sofa in the Oval Office
The US vice-president, JD Vance, the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, and the national security adviser, Mike Waltz, were among those in the chat group. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

The leak of top US officials’ deliberations over planning for this month’s strikes on the Houthis in Yemen – revealed by a journalist who was accidentally invited to a chat group on the Signal messaging app – will be highly useful for hostile intelligence agencies.

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