US EditionOfficials say texts sent by Waltz, Ratcliffe in Signal chat harmed U.S. intelligence gathering
- A chat involving Donald Trump's national security team included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg and Joe Kent, who is awaiting Senate confirmation as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, raising security concerns about military operation discussions.
- Senator Ron Wyden criticized the group's behavior, stating it shows a dangerous disregard for intelligence procedures in national security.
- Democrats have called for resignations from participants who discussed classified military operations via an unsecured app, violating the Federal Records Act due to auto-deletion of messages.
- Former intelligence officer Cash expressed serious concerns over the incident, stating it could lead to reluctance in candid communications among U.S. Government officials.
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Trump officials' Signal chat 'could have ended with lost American lives': Sen. Warner
Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said on Sunday that if information had been leaked from top Trump national security officials’ Signal chat discussing plans to bomb the Houthis in Yemen, American lives could have been lost. “I was, yesterday, down in Hampton Roads. I did two big town halls, Virginia Beach and Chesapeake. There are people in the town hall who are either friends or relatives of fol…
No classified information discussed, White House maintains
No war plans or classified information was discussed in a leaked Signal chat, insists the White House. The chat contained detailed information about strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen, as the House Intelligence Committee heard on Wednesday.
Editorial: Waltz owes us the truth about Signalgate
By now, most newspaper readers know the basics: Somehow, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and a dozen other high-ranking officials were chatting on a commercial texting app about (among other things) the specifics of a planned strike on Houthi rebels…
The impact of the Signal security breach, according to a former intelligence officer
NPR's Scott Simon talks to Steven Cash, former CIA officer and staff member on the Senate Intelligence Committee, about the fallout from the security breach involving defense plans and a group chat.
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