Trump Aide Was in Russia During Group Chat
- Steve Witkoff was in Moscow while discussing military options on Signal with top Trump administration officials, according to CBS News analysis of flight data.
- Witkoff joined the chat to discuss plans against Houthis in Yemen about 12 hours after arriving in Russia for ceasefire talks.
- Senator Michael Bennet questioned how Editor Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly added to the chat, expressing concerns over security implications.
- Experts warned that Russian actors are trying to compromise Signal, the messaging app used by officials, raising serious security concerns.
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Chat-gate, while military plans were being published on the Signal group and the name of a CIA agent, one of its members was in Russia to see Putin
Steve Witkoff, the US envoy for Ukraine and the Middle East included in the Signal group at the center of the so-called “chat-gate”, was in Moscow where he met Vladimir Putin during the hours when the details of a military operation against the Houthis were disclosed on the chat. This is revealed by CBS, which has cross-referenced the dates and times of the messages, the flight data used by Witkoff for the trip to the Russian capital and local m…
Top Trump aide in Signal chat was in Russia while the text stream was active—but denies he had personal or government-issued phone with him
Special envoy Steve Witkoff was scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 13, at the same time he was in an active Signal group of about a dozen U.S. officials.
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