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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

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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

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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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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 Conversation

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

The Independent UK

‘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’.

Al Jazeera

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

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’

The Independent UK

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.

Euronews

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

The Independent UK

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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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The Independent UK

Elon Musk believes he knows why the Trump admin Signal leak was allowed to occur

Musk previously stated that the ‘best place to hide a dead body is page 2 of The Atlantic’ after its editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg’s explosive Signal group chat report

Latin Times

Trump Spokesperson Doubles Down on Hegseth Claim That 'No War Plans' Were Discussed in Leaked Signal Group Chat

Hegseth claimed on Tuesday that "nobody was texting war plans," adding that Goldberg, the journalist who made the claims, is a "professional hoax peddler"

Evening Standard

MAGA group chat storm: Number 10 says it's 'not appropriate' to share classified information on Signal

Number 10 insisted that it was confident that any UK intelligence shared with the US was being handled appropriately

The Independent UK

Fox News veteran’s blunt response to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s denial goes viral

‘Oh for God's sake,’ Fox News’ chief political reporter jibed following Pete Hegseths’ denial of the scandalous text leak

Latin Times

Mike Walz Accidentally Adding Journalist to Group Chat Revealing US War Plans Sparks Even More Group Chats - About His Resignation

Trump officials appear to be using other group chats to discuss the fate of Mike Waltz, who reportedly invited The Atlantic's editor in chief to the one discussing attacks on the Houthis

The Independent UK

‘He used to fire people on TV for sport:’ Pete Buttigieg calls on Trump to act over Signal leak

The Democrat appeared on CNN’s The Source on Monday evening after reports emerged that The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeff Goldberg was invited to an encrypted chat days before the wave of air strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen

The Independent UK

Jon Stewart jokes that US official was ‘distracted’ by TV when he added journalist to secret war plans chat

‘By the way, I might be in this group chat, I don’t know. I don’t check my group chats,’ joked Stewart

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