National security-minded Democrats, and at least one Republican, on Monday panned the Trump administration’s top national security officials after the editor of The Atlantic reported he was inadvertently added to a Cabinet-level group chat used to plan military strikes in Yemen.
Washington was captivated by the news that the magazine’s Jeffrey Goldberg had been, seemingly by mistake, added to an apparent group chat on the messaging platform Signal with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, national security adviser Mike Waltz, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and others in the highest tiers of Trump’s government in which they reportedly discussed classified national security information and plans — since acted upon — to launch strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.
“If true, this story represents one of the most egregious failures of operational security and common sense I have ever seen,” Senate Armed Services Committee ranking member Jack Reed, D-R.I., said in a press release.
