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The Atlantic magazine on Wednesday published what it said was the entire text of a chat group mistakenly shared with a journalist by top US national security officials laying out plans of an imminent attack on Yemen.

From what we can see on newly released text messages, Trump's people don't know what he's talking about

Yesterday, The Atlantic magazine revealed an extraordinary national security blunder in the United States. Top US government officials had discussed plans for a bombing campaign in Yemen against Houthi rebels in a Signal group chat which inadvertently included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg.

Defense Secretary accused reporter who received chats of ‘peddling hoaxes’ earlier in day

Democrats have called the high-level discussions on the messaging app Signal ‘obviously reckless, obviously dangerous’.

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Trump and his aides are now describing accurate reporting on a national security breach as a ‘hoax’

Senior intelligence officials testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, a day after an explosive report in The Atlantic, with the CIA director denying that 'a huge mistake' had been made.

Fox News host downplayed the potential security breach of a journalist accidentally being added to a group chat with national security cabinet members