Time to shut up about ‘SignalGate’

Time to shut up about ‘Signalgate’

Watergate 2.0 it ain’t. But no one denies that the texting leak in a group chat about an air attack on the Houthi terrorists was an embarrassing screw-up for the Trump administration. No one seems to know yet exactly how Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg ended up being included in a secret Defense Department discussion about the pending military strike in Yemen. Eighteen government officials including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and VP JD Vanc…

Time to shut up about ‘SignalGate’

Watergate 2.0 it ain’t.

White House struggles to untangle its contradictions in 'Signalgate' scandal

Four days after revelations in 'The Atlantic' proved that top government officials had been texting sensitive information about strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, the scandal doesn't seem to be dying down.

At the heart of the "Signalgate", this scandal resulting from one of the most resounding security loopholes in recent military history, is the US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on an ejectable seat? Nothing is less secure, even if the accumulation of his mistakes in barely three months' term of office gives rise to concern in the Republican ranks. ...

Following the scandal over the inclusion of a journalist in a secret group in which key Trump administration officials shared war plans, five big questions remain unanswered, Foreign Policy writes.

While the controversy over the leaked talk between senior officials in the Trump administration has taken over the headlines, both the media and the Democrats have focused on the inclusion of a journalist in the group and that was carried out in a messaging app and not official channels, without questioning what military action of that magnitude and its human cost implies.