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‘Signalgate’ proves that DC never lets a ‘crisis’ — serious or not — go to waste

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was inadvertently included in a Signal group chat titled 'Houthi PC small group' with senior White House officials, including Pete Hegseth and Michael Waltz, discussing sensitive details of a planned US military mission targeting the Houthi group in Yemen.
The incident, dubbed 'Signalgate,' occurred in the lead-up to airstrikes on March 15, raising concerns about the use of an unclassified commercial app, Signal, for high-stakes security-related communications, potentially circumventing federal laws on preserving government records.
The Signal chat included detailed timings for aircraft launches related to the Houthi strike, information that some officials and experts believed could have endangered American pilots and personnel if it fell into the wrong hands, despite claims from the Trump administration that the information was not classified.
President Trump dismissed the incident as 'really not a big deal' and a 'glitch,' while others, including former Secretary of State, expressed disbelief and a YouGov poll found that 74% of Americans considered the national security breach to be serious.
Following the publication of The Atlantic's story, a Pentagon-wide advisory was issued against the usage of Signal, and a federal court ordered the Trump administration to preserve all Signal messages from March 11 to 15, highlighting the controversy's broader implications for national security protocols and the use of personal devices for official government communications.

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Silicon Republic

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Signalgate: What’s the controversy about?

Phishing and auto-deleting messages are some of the key concerns around using Signal for official purposes. Read more: Signalgate: What’s the controversy about?

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Politico Europe

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What Signalgate really tells us

Apparently, the U.S. military is for hire, even if there has been no request for its services. And if you want us — you have to pay.

3 days ago·Brussels, Belgium

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Los Angeles Times

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Contributor: The 'Signalgate' theories may be entertaining, but they're probably not correct

Why was a journalist added to a war-planning group chat? Occam's razor suggests it was an accident.

3 days ago·Los Angeles, United States

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19FortyFive

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Signalgate Just Might Be a Blessing In Disguise

A fiasco, according to Orlando Bloom’s character in Elizabethtown, is not just a disaster — it is a disaster of mythic proportions. That’s the right word for the now-infamous Signal group chat of Trump’s national security hands — a group chat laced with emojis, snark, and the kind of backstabbing usually reserved for college dorm […] The post Signalgate Just Might Be a Blessing In Disguise appeared first on 19FortyFive.

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The Hill

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‘Signalgate’ proves that DC never lets a ‘crisis’ — serious or not — go to waste

For the vast majority of Americans, the issue does not even rise to the level of a “tempest in a teapot.”

4 days ago·Washington, United States

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Poynter

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The Trump administration is still scrambling to explain Signalgate

The saying goes something like this: Mess around and find out. OK, so that’s the PG version, but you get the drift. The Trump administration messed around this week. And […] The post The Trump administration is still scrambling to explain Signalgate appeared first on Poynter.

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