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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Adam Gabbatt

White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland

A solider, among other soldiers lying on benches, sits with his head hanging over crossed arms.
A member of the 82nd airborne division at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in 2022. Photograph: Nathan Posner/AP

A senior White House official accidentally leaked details of plans to send an elite army unit to Portland, in the latest intelligence leak by the Trump administration.

Anthony Salisbury, a top deputy to Stephen Miller, the influential White House policy adviser, was observed using Signal in a public place to discuss a plan to deploy the army’s 82nd airborne division to Portland, the Democratic-run Oregon city which Donald Trump has repeatedly castigated as being “war-ravaged”.

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