Trump Officials Accidentally Add Journalist to Signal Chat on Yemen Strikes
- Senior national security officials from Donald Trump's administration accidentally included Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, in a chat discussing sensitive strike plans against the Houthi terrorist group in Yemen.
- The National Security Council confirmed the authenticity of the text chain and is investigating how Goldberg was inadvertently added to the group chat.
- Goldberg claimed that the shared texts contained operational details that could endanger U.S. Military personnel, and he suggested discussing such matters on Signal may violate the Espionage Act.
- Democrats criticized the incident, with members calling it an outrageous breach of national security and demanding investigations into the actions of the officials involved.
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