A previously planned hearing of the US secret service shot for global threats to the US Senate on global threats on Tuesday was able to incorrectly revealed war plans in a messaging group on Tuesday, which attacked a journalist shortly before the US Yemen to Iran.
The editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, said in a report on Monday that on March 13th he was unexpectedly invited to an encrypted chat group in the signal messaging app called “Houthi PC Small Group”. In the group, the national security advisor Mike Waltz commissioned his deputy Alex Wong with the establishment of a “Tigert team” to coordinate the US campaign against the Houthis.
“Apart from a moment when classified information should never be discussed about a not classified system, it is only stunning” that nobody thought to check the participants in the group chat, “said Virginia Senator, Mark Warner, the best democrat of the panel.
US President Donald Trump started a ongoing campaign of great military strikes against Jemens Houthis on March 15 because of the group’s attacks against Red Sea Shipping.
Hours before these attacks began, Defense Minister Pete Hegseth published operational details about the plan in the messaging group, “including information about goals, weapons that the United States would use and attack the attack sequence,” said Goldberg. His report left out the details, but Goldberg described it as a “shocking ruthless” use of a signal chat.
Top official “learned a lesson”: Trump
Warner asked Hegseth and Waltz to step down, but Trump expressed support for his national security advisor in a telephone interview with NBC News.
“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson and he is a good man,” said Trump.
Reports that apparently represented Vice President JD Vance, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA director John Ratcliffe, Director of the National Secret Services Tulsi Gabbard, Finance Minister Scott Bessent, the head of the White House of Stab Susie Wiles, represented.
Joe Kent, Trump’s candidate for the National Conterrorism Center Director, was apparently in the signal chain, although he has not yet been confirmed.
Ratcliffe denied that every classified material in the group chat was discussed on the confusion of several democratic senators, while the use of signal was permitted under the circumstances.
“It is difficult for me to believe that goals, timing and weapons would not have been classified,” said Angus King, an independent Maine, an independent one who crouches with Democrats.
The chat, said Ratcliffe, is a “mechanism for coordination with high -ranking civil servants, but not a replacement for the use of high -ranking or classified communication for everything that is classified”.
The democratic senator Michael Bennet was amazed that Ratcliffe as a CIA director does not know that Goldberg was on the chat list.
“It’s a embarrassment. You have to do better,” said Bennet.
“How can our allies ever trust us?”
Signal was created by the entrepreneur Moxie Marlinspike and has developed from an exotic messaging app used by dissidents for privacy, to the unofficial wholesale network of Washington. Signal does not use the US government encryption and is not hosted to government servers.
According to US law, it can be a crime to abuse, abuse or abuse classified information.
Democrat Mark Warner sparingly with the Trump government officials, after it became known that a journalist was added to a sensitive group chat, in which plans were discussed on the strike of the militant Houthi Group.
According to the screenshots of the chats registered by the Atlantic, the group’s officials discussed whether the United States should carry out the strikes, and at one point Vance seemed to ask whether the US allies in Europe, which were exposed to more sentence in the region, deserves the US Aid.
The committee’s republicans mainly remained on the previously planned agenda and asked the invited administrative officials after threats from China and international drug cartels.
The liberal leader Mark Carney was asked at the federal election campaign whether he had confidential information with the United States regarding Canada in the light of the history of the Atlantic.
Carney said it was a “serious problem” from which the lessons have to be removed. He added that Canada “has a very strong intelligence partnership with the United States through five eyes”, an intelligence alliance between several countries.
When asked about the wrong disclosure in London, a spokesman for Prime Minister Keir Starrer said that the government was confident that communication by the British secret service with the USA would not be leaked through.
But in DC Warner said that the “Signal Fiasco” was the latest disorienting acts in the United States that “treated our allies like opponents” and the proposal by Peter Navarro that Canada was to be deducted from the five-eye-intelligence-alliance from the five-eye-intelligence-collection alliance.
“How can our allies ever trust us as a partner that we used to be?”
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Trump plays down the incident
In the NBC interview mentioned above, Trump described the revelation of the Chat group as “the only mistake in two months” of his new administration and added: “It turned out that it was not serious.
In the past week, however, it was found that the social security numbers were accidentally published in a document dump in connection with investigations into top-class American political attacks in the 1960s.
Democrats have also accused the administration of allowing the billionaire consultant Elon Musk and a team under his patronage to have access to sensitive government information and some information from American citizens. Musk and members of the Doge team of government efficiency (Doge) were not confirmed by the Senate to their roles.
Trump was charged between his terms of the President after two of his real estate in two of his real estate, in Florida and in New Jersey, was found in two of his real estate. Trump was charged with the spy law until a judge contradicted the case. Trump’s election victory in November essentially killed all the opportunities for the public prosecutor’s office to make an appointment against this decision.
Trump was accused of having tweeted the US surveillance secrets in connection with Iran in 2019 and two years earlier to reveal Israeli secret services to the Russian colleague.
Trump won the election for the first time in 2016 when he took the careless handling of his democratic opponent Hillary Clinton as Foreign Minister. The FBI examined Clinton’s handling with classified material and use of a private server, but refused to pursue criminal charges.
