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The Guardian - US
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Andrew Roth in Washington

Stunning Signal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of Europe

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US defense secretary Pete Hegseth, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent and US secretary of state Marco Rubio were on the chat that that contained sobering words for Europe. Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images

If Europe wasn’t already on notice, the extraordinary leak of deliberations by JD Vance and other top-level Trump administration officials over a strike against the Houthis in Yemen was another sign that it has a target on its back.

The administration officials gave Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic a front-row seat to the planning for the strike against the Houthis – a stunning intelligence leak that has caused anger against Republicans who called for criminal investigations against Hillary Clinton and others for playing fast and loose with sensitive information.

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