5 h. ago Mike Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal chats for national security work – report

National security adviser and team shared ‘sensitive information’ in group chats on app, sources tell PoliticoUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz, and his team have created at least 20 different group chats on the encrypted messaging app Signal to coordinate sensitive national security work, sources tell Politico.The revelation, which cites four people with direct knowledge of the practice, follows heightened scrutiny of the administration’s handling of sensitive information after the Atlantic recently published messages from a chat that included the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, sharing operational details of deadly strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump has managed to spin Signalgate as a media lapse, not a major security breach | Andrew Roth

The US administration believes it can divide public attention until there is a new scandal. It may be a winning strategyWhen it comes to Trump-era scandals, the shameless responses to “Signalgate”, in which top administration officials discussing details of an impending strike in Yemen in a group chat without noticing the presence of a prominent journalist, should set alarm bells ringing for its brazenness and incompetence.In a particularly jaw-dropping exchange, Tulsi Gabbard, the United States’ director of national intelligence, was forced to backtrack during a house hearing after she had said that there had been no specific information in the Signal chat about an impending military strike. Then, the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg published the chat in full, contradicting Gabbard’s remarks that no classified data or weapons systems had been mentioned in the chat. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Judge orders participants in Signal chat group blunder to preserve all messages

Restraining order was issued to ensure that records of Yemen attack group conversation are retainedA federal judge on Thursday ordered that the Trump administration preserve all Signal messages exchanged in the now-infamous Signal group chat in which officials conducted a high-level military operation on the unclassified commercial app and inadvertently included a journalist.The temporary restraining order from James Boasberg, the chief US district judge in Washington, compelled defense secretary Pete Hegseth, secretary of state Marco Rubio, treasury secretary Scott Bessent, CIA director John Ratcliffe and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, to save their texts from 11 to 15 March. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Signal group chat leak: judge orders Trump administration to preserve all messages from 11

James Boasberg, who has been attacked by Trump for being assigned to the case, reminded hearing that cases are assigned randomlyTop aides to Joe Biden “aggressively” warned Democratic donors last summer that if the then president was forced out of the 2024 election over concerns about his age and fitness, the party would inevitably make the “mistake” of running the vice-president, Kamala Harris, against Donald Trump, a new book says.“One donor on the receiving end of an electronic message summed up the sentiments of Biden’s top aides: ‘They were aggressively saying that we would wind up with the vice-president and that would be a mistake.’” Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Judge says he will order government to preserve Signal messages about Houthi military strike

A federal judge says he will order the Trump administration to preserve records of a text message chat in which senior national security officials discussed sensitive details of plans for a U.S. military strike against Yemen’s Houthis

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6 d. ago Keir Starmer 'walking a perilous tightrope' as Donald Trump situation 'could explode in his face'

War plans were leaked to the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine in a Signal messaging app chat - but the UK Government hasn't strongly condemned the glaring security lapse

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6 d. ago Donald Trump faces 'massive loss of authority' after 'total lies' in leaked war messages scandal

The Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was minding his own business when he received an invite into a Signal messaging chat where secret war plans were being discussed by the key players in Donald Trump's team

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7 d. ago Team Trump picks a fight over the Signal chat. Republicans play ignorant

Analysis: Republicans who risked their credibility to get Fox News host Pete Hegseth over the finish line now have to deal with the fallout from the Signal scandal, Eric Garcia writes

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7 d. ago Putin mouthpieces mock Trump's team over leak – and 'want to get in' another chat

The Trump administration was plunged into crisis after Signal chat messages discussing war plans were accidentally shared with a journalist - and now Putin's propagandists have weighed in

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7 d. ago Entire Signal chat about Yemen attacks are published after Trump team denied it included classified information

Messages from Pete Hegseth contain detailed timeline of when U.S. forces would strike in Yemen and type of weapons they would use

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7 d. ago Full Signal group chat messages detailing US strikes on Yemen released by magazine

The disclosure includes screenshots of timing and targets.

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7 d. ago Trump breaks silence after Yemen war plan texts revealed and hints at who is responsible for shock leak

Donald Trump dismissed the contents of the messages contained in a Signal chat where his top intelligence, national security and defense officials were discussing attack plans on Yemen.

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7 d. ago Atlantic magazine releases further details of Trump officials’ Signal chat

Messages show timings of military strikes in Yemen after White House denies they contained classified material

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7 d. ago Atlantic magazine releases more details of Trump officials’ Signal chat

Messages show timings of military strikes in Yemen after White House denies they contained classified material

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7 d. ago Latest Signal leak revelations expose US officials’ lies about what was shared

Trump officials had claimed nothing classified or risking harm to members of the military was shared in the chatSignal leak live – latest updatesThe disclosure by the Atlantic of further devastating messages from the Signal chat group used by the Trump administration’s most senior security officials has nailed the lie that nothing that threatened the safety of US servicemen and women was shared on the group.After the vague and evasive assertions by Trump officials at Monday’s Senate intelligence committee hearing, from the White House, and from the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, that no war plans or classified material was shared, readers can make up their own minds. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Newly shared Signal messages show Trump advisers discussed Yemen attack plans

The Atlantic releases more text from chat after Trump officials claimed none of it was ‘classified information’US politics live – latest updatesThe Atlantic magazine has published fresh messages from a group chat including top US officials where they discuss operational details of plans to bomb Yemen.The initial revelations by the magazine and its editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, who was accidentally added to the chat on the messaging app Signal, have sparked a huge outcry in the US, with the Trump administration facing withering attacks over the disastrous leak of sensitive information. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago The Atlantic publishes full bombshell exchange between Trump's top team about Yemen strike plans

The Atlantic magazine has published the full exchange of messages from a Signal group chat set up by senior US Government officials to organise a strike on Yemen earlier this month.

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7 d. ago Entire Signal chats about Yemen attacks are published after Trump team denied it included any classified information

The messages from Hegseth contain a detailed timeline of when U.S. forces would strike in Yemen and the type of weapons they would use

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7 d. ago Atlantic publishes numerous messages from Signal chat discussing plans to bomb Yemen

Magazine releases more text from chat after Trump officials claimed none of it was ‘classified information’US politics live – latest updatesThe Atlantic magazine has published fresh messages from the Signal chat group including from top US officials discussing operational details of plans to bomb Yemen.The initial revelations by the magazine and its editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, who was accidentally added to the chat, have created a huge scandal in the US, and the Trump administration has faced withering attacks over the disastrous leak of sensitive information. However, the magazine did not include specific details of the attack, saying it did not want to jeoparsise national security. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Trump envoy on Signal war plans chat met Putin in Moscow on same day messages started

Midle East negotiator Steve Witkoff was in Moscow meeting with President Putin while he was on a group chat among top U.S. officials over Signal about an impending military action.

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