3 h. ago US war plans leak shows Five Eyes allies must ‘look out for ourselves’, says Mark Carney

Signal blunder likely to put strain on Five Eyes as it weighs how Trump administration handles classified informationCanada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, has said the inadvertent leak of classified military plans by senior US officials means that allied nations must increasingly “look out for ourselves” as trust frays with a once-close ally.Speaking a day after it was revealed that a journalist was accidentally included in a group chat discussing airstrikes against Yemeni rebels, Carney said the intelligence blunder was a “serious, serious issue and all lessons must be taken”. He said it would be critical to see “how people react to those mistakes and how they tighten them up”. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago 'Trump is on the rampage. It's not safe to talk': ANDREW NEIL reveals his extraordinary phone call with top White House insider... and why the war plans leak scandal confirms a terrible truth

As self-inflicted security breaches go, it was epic - the sort of blunder-cum-fiasco you'd expect if the Keystone Cops had been put in charge of the nation's military and intelligence services.

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6 h. ago The Guardian view on the Signal war plans leak: a US security breach speaks volumes | Editorial

A staggering blunder points to the wider failings of the careless and amateurish Trump administrationIt is jaw-dropping that senior Trump administration figures would accidentally leak war plans to a journalist. But the fundamental issue is that 18 high-ranking individuals were happy discussing extremely sensitive material on a private messaging app, highlighting the administration’s extraordinary amateurishness, recklessness and unaccountability.The visceral hostility to Europe spelt out again by the vice-president, JD Vance, was glaring. So was the indifference to the potential civilian cost of the strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, designed to curb attacks on Red Sea shipping. The Houthi-run health ministry said that 53 people including five children and two women were killed. The response by the national security adviser, Michael Waltz, to the attacks was to post emojis: a fist, an American flag and fire. The lack of contrition for this security breach is also telling...

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8 h. ago Is Signal that secure? What the experts think about Trump admin’s war plans leak

‘This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior, particularly toward classified information,’ Democratic senator says

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9 h. ago Democrat spectacularly tears into Tulsi Gabbard for war plans text leak: Live updates

DAILYMAIL.COM LIVE BLOG: Donald Trump's Cabinet is in the hot seat today as several of his top intelligence officials are set to be grilled by Congress one day after a staggering text chain leak.

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10 h. ago Desperate Fox News goes into furious spin mode to downplay Yemen war plans leak

‘I think you will come away proud that these are the leaders making these decisions in America,’ Fox News host Will Cain said about the Trump officials who accidentally invited a journalist into an unclassified group chat discussing war plans

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12 h. ago Exploitable flaws: what US adversaries could learn from White House security failure

Hostile intelligence agencies are likely to pore over details revealed in chat group planning for Yemen strikesUS politics live – latest updatesThe leak of top US officials’ deliberations over planning for this month’s strikes on the Houthis in Yemen – revealed by a journalist who was accidentally invited to a chat group on the Signal messaging app – will be highly useful for hostile intelligence agencies. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Resignation calls grow over Signal war plans text leak that has Trump administration under fire: Live

President facing calls to remove senior security officials over app blunder that saw Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg added to highly-sensitive Signal conversation by mistake

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13 h. ago White House security failure prompts calls for resignations – US politics live

Democratic national committee chair Ken Martin calls on defense secretary to resign; House speaker Mike Johnson signals support for Pete Hegseth and national security adviser Mike WaltzSignal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of EuropeHierarchies and the human factor: key takeaways from US security leakThe leak of top US officials’ deliberations over planning for this month’s strikes on the Houthis in Yemen – revealed by a journalist who was accidentally invited to a chat group on the Signal messaging app – will be highly useful for hostile intelligence agencies.Read more on what the security blunder means for the Trump administration: Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Hierarchies and the human factor: key takeaways from US security leak

Hostile intelligence agencies are likely to pore over details revealed in chat group planning for Yemen strikesUS politics live – latest updatesThe leak of top US officials’ deliberations over planning for this month’s strikes on the Houthis in Yemen – revealed by a journalist who was accidentally invited to a chat group on the Signal messaging app – will be highly useful for hostile intelligence agencies. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Jimmy Kimmel shreds ‘bunch of doofs’ in Trump administration over Signal leak

‘Our national security is being guarded by a bunch of doofs you wouldn’t trust to throw your cousin a surprise party,’ Jimmy Kimmel Live host quipped

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19 h. ago Stunning Signal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of Europe

Messages inadvertently shared with Atlantic journalist lays bare the unvarnished truth about how Vance and Hegseth feel about European alliesIf Europe wasn’t already on notice, the extraordinary leak of deliberations by JD Vance and other top-level Trump administration officials over a strike against the Houthis in Yemen was another sign that it has a target on its back.The administration officials gave Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic a front-row seat to the planning for the strike against the Houthis – a stunning intelligence leak that has caused anger against Republicans who called for criminal investigations against Hillary Clinton and others for playing fast and loose with sensitive information. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago Outrage after White House accidentally texts journalist war plans: ‘Huge screw

Security leak triggers bipartisan anger after Atlantic reveals officials inadvertently broadcast highly sensitive military plansWhite House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalistA catastrophic security leak is triggering bipartisan outrage after the Atlantic revealed that senior Trump administration officials accidentally broadcast highly sensitive military plans through a Signal group chat with a journalist reading along.On the Senate floor on Monday, the minority leader, Chuck Schumer, called it “one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I have read about in a very, very long time” and urged Republicans to seek a “full investigation into how this happened, the damage it created and how we can avoid it in the future”. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago Former defense secretary says somebody ‘needs to get fired’ over Trump admin’s shocking war plans leak to journalist

‘This is just a serious blunder,’ Leon Panetta stated, adding that it ‘could violate espionage laws’ and ‘undermine our national security’

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