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Top Trump aide in Signal chat was in Russia while the text stream was active—but denies he had personal or government-issued phone with him

Special envoy Steve Witkoff was scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 13, at the same time he was in an active Signal group of about a dozen U.S. officials.

Fortune

Photos of Mike Waltz Standing Next to Atlantic Journalist Surface After Trump Advisor Claimed They 'Never Met'

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has denied ever meeting Jeffrey Goldberg, but newly resurfaced images suggest that claim may be false.

Latin Times

Fox News immediately downplays full damaging texts from Atlantic group chat story

‘Looks like Goldberg overpromised,’ Lawrence Jones asserted shortly after The Atlantic published the latest texts. ‘There’s not war plans here’

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White House Said It Opposed The Atlantic Releasing War Plans Conversation; The Editor-In-Chief Did It Anyway

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the administration did not encourage the release of messages sent in a Signal group chat, but there was no classified information shared.

Latin Times

Trump Admin Blasted for 'Lying' About War Plans Leak After Journalist Added to Signal Group Publishes Full Texts: 'Is This Treason?'

Members of the Trump administration are being blasted by users online for denying sharing highly sensitive military plans on a group chat.

Latin Times

White House Relies On One Word To Reject It Was Discussing War Plans On Signal Group Chat

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that since The Atlantic's headline reads "attack plans" rather than "war plans" its whole argument is moot

Latin Times

Journalist Added to Signal Group Chat Shares Specific Attack Plans Texted After Hegseth Denied War Plans Were Shared

The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg shared the minute-to-minute updates officials were getting from Pete Hegseth as attacks were carried out

Latin Times

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Signal chat group affair: unprecedented security breach will seriously damage US international relations

Plans for an attack against an enemy target are classified in America. But the private views of high-ranking officials about allies, communicated within government, must also count as intelligence to be protected.

The Conversation

Magazine Publishes US Attack Plan Mistakenly Shared In Chat Group

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.

International Business Times

The most chilling lesson of Signalgate

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

Salon

The Atlantic publishes Yemen ‘attack plans shared by Trump aides’ on Signal

Details released by media outlet include the times of US strikes and types of aircraft being used against the Houthis.

Al Jazeera

How moving can help beat MAGA

Yoni Appelbaum on how the housing crisis is fueling America’s political polarization

Salon

JD Vance may be right and wrong about the Suez Canal and Europe

Attacks on tankers or, worse, a wider conflict in the Arabian Peninsula, could spur stagflation.

Fortune

Trump Downplays Firestorm Over Leaked Yemen Air Strike Chat

Trump said he would "look into" the use of the Signal app as he put on a united front at a meeting with US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who inadvertently included The Atlantic magazine's Jeffrey Goldberg in the conversation of top national security officials.

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The Conversation

Leak of US military plans on Signal is a classic case of ‘shadow IT’. It shows why security systems need to be easy to use

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.

The Independent UK

Mike Waltz admits he made Signal war admin group but accuses Atlantic editor of ‘tricking’ his way into chat

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

Al Jazeera

‘Sloppy’: Trump downplays shock over leaked Signal chat about Yemen attack

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

The Independent UK

We should not underestimate the historic threat Donald Trump represents – to his country, to the West and to a free press

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The US president is behaving more and more as though he is not only above the law – but is the law

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The Independent UK

The Signal chat blunder has shaken Washington. Except in the White House where it’s brushed off

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

Euronews

Top US intelligence officials claim Signal chat did not mention classified details

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.

The Independent UK

Jesse Watters says security breach is no worse than adding your aunt to a group about ‘raunchy plans for the bachelor party’

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

Fortune

Trump administration's use of disappearing Signal messages to discuss military strikes not allowed under record law, experts say

Senior officials in the Trump administration are under fire after inadvertently sharing secret war plans with a reporter via a Signal group chat.

Reason

The Atlantic Should Not Find Out About a War Before Congress Does

The White House accidentally leaked military plans in Yemen to a journalist—and demonstrated how unconstitutional U.S. war making has become.

The Independent UK

The Latest: Officials hold Senate briefing on national security threats

The Trump administration's top intelligence officials are facing Congress for the start of back-to-back hearings to testify about the threats facing the United States and what the government is doing to counter them

The Independent UK

The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg reveals where he was when he realized Yemen war plans were real

Hegseth denied that he was ‘texting war plans’ even after an administration spokesperson confirmed the group chat’s authenticity

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