They did NOT KNOW what they what they were doing security wise in a classified group chat on a Houthi attack in Yemen…
Was this the only time?
Remember?
Hegseth got rid of ALL the old-time Senior staff….
The incident ended up in a OPEN Atlantic piece…
EMBARRISING!
The “inadvertent number” belonged to Goldberg, whose article details a robust policy discussion that occurred in the lead-up to a March 15 military operation targeting Yemen’s Houthi militants. Goldbergreported being added to the group chat, which occurred on the encrypted messaging platform Signal, by President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Waltz. Other participants appeared to include Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and several other senior aides, the Atlantic article says…
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Trump, who did not appear to be included in the group chat, distanced himself from the imbroglio, saying after the article’s publication “I don’t know anything about it” and “I’m not a big fan of the Atlantic.” Goldberg invoked Trump’s ire during the president’s first term in office, when the publication reported in 2020 that he had privately disparaged U.S. service members who died in wartime….
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Monday’s revelation was greeted by Democrats with exasperation and anger, with at least one lawmaker, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (Mississippi), demanding an FBI investigation. The Justice Department declined to comment.
“If true, this story represents one of the most egregious failures of operational security and common sense I have ever seen,” Sen. Jack Reed (Rhode Island), the Senate Armed Services Committee’s top Democrat, said in a statement. “Military operations need to be handled with utmost discretion, using approved, secure lines of communication, because American lives are on the line. The carelessness shown by President Trump’s cabinet is stunning and dangerous.”…
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Sen. Mark R. Warner (Virginia), the Senate Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat, wrote on X that the Trump administration is “playing fast and loose with our nation’s most classified info, and it makes all Americans less safe.”
On Tuesday, the committee will hear testimony from at least two of the officials implicated in the Signal leak — Gabbard and Ratcliffe — who are scheduled to appear on Capitol Hill to offer their assessments of the top national security threats facing the United States. “Expect this to come up in tomorrow’s hearing,” a Warner spokeswoman said.
Reactions from Republicans were more muted, but some also voiced concerns.
Sen. Tom Cotton (Arkansas), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, declined to comment when asked whether he is concerned by the administration’s apparent use of Signal to communicate about military operations and whether Congress should investigate the matter.
Rep. Michael Lawler (R-New York) said on X: “Classified information should not be transmitted on unsecured channels — and certainly not to those without security clearances, including reporters. Period.”
“Safeguards must be put in place,” he added, “to ensure this never happens again.”…..
Update….
This incident has blown up for the Trump people and President Trump?
As usual ?
Ducks….
National Security Advisor Walz seems to the ‘fall guy’…..
Maybe?
People gonna be going before Copngress on this one….
The stunning revelation that top administration officials accidentally included a reporter in a group chat discussing war plans triggered furious discussion inside the White House that national security adviser Mike Waltz may need to be forced out.
Nothing is decided yet, and White House officials cautioned that President Donald Trump would ultimately make the decision over the next day or two as he watches coverage of the embarrassing episode.
A senior administration official told POLITICO on Monday afternoon that they are involved in multiple text threads with other administration staffers on what to do with Waltz, following the bombshell report that the top aide inadvertently included Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg in a private chat discussing a military strike on Houthis.
“Half of them saying he’s never going to survive or shouldn’t survive,” said the official, who like others was granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberation. And two high-level White House aides have floated the idea that Waltz should resign in order to prevent the president from being put in a “bad position.”
“It was reckless not to check who was on the thread. It was reckless to be having that conversation on Signal. You can’t have recklessness as the national security adviser,” the official said.
A person close to the White House was even more blunt: “Everyone in the White House can agree on one thing: Mike Waltz is a fucking idiot…
Update…
House Speaker onshould Hegseth or Waltz get held responsible?
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday dismissed any potential disciplinary action for national security adviser Mike Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after news broke that the pair and other Trump administration officials discussed plans for an attack against Houthi rebels in Yemen on a text chain that mistakenly included the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic.
Asked by The Hill if Waltz, who apparently added The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg to the group chat on Signal, and Hegseth, who according to Goldberg shared the sensitive details ahead of the offensive, should be disciplined, Johnson responded “no, no of course not.”…
The Hill with Five Takaways….
Even more dramatically, the purpose of the chat, on the messaging app Signal, was to discuss a then-imminent U.S. attack on Houthi targets in Yemen earlier this month.
Goldberg said that, through the texts, he had known specifics about the attacks about two hours before they took place on March 15. Goldberg wrote that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sent detailed plans to everyone on the chat.
Goldberg did not publish the specifics of that element of the chat. But he said of Hegseth’s messages: “The information contained in them, if they had been read by an adversary of the United States, could conceivably have been used to harm American military and intelligence personnel, particularly in the broader Middle East.”
Here are five big takeaways from the explosive story…..
image….National security adviser Michael Waltz, left, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth….AFP/Getty
Remember?
These guys cleaned house of the oldtimers and experts!….
This is amateur hours shit and they ARE Lucy this wasn’t about a sserious situation that could have cost American lives…..