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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont

Latest Signal leak revelations expose US officials’ lies about what was shared

Pete Hegseth, centre.
Pete Hegseth shared details of war planning in an app and on devices he could not be sure were secure. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

The disclosure by the Atlantic of further devastating messages from the Signal chat group used by the Trump administration’s most senior security officials has nailed the lie that nothing that threatened the safety of US servicemen and women was shared on the group.

After the vague and evasive assertions by Trump officials at Monday’s Senate intelligence committee hearing, from the White House, and from the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, that no war plans or classified material was shared, readers can make up their own minds.

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