2 w. ago Mystery of how The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg was added to top secret US chat solved at last

Donald Trump's administration was left red-faced last month after journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly added to a top secret Signal chat discussing attack plans in Yemen

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3 w. ago Democrats call on defense secretary Pete Hegseth to resign over group chat scandal – live

Criticism of defense secretary grows as Democrats rejected assertions by Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe that no classified material was included in the chatNewly released messages show Trump advisers discussed Yemen attackUnder pressure from his rightwing base to challenge judges who have ruled against Donald Trump, speaker of the House Mike Johnson suggested on Tuesday that Congress could consider eliminating certain federal courts.It forms part of a broader assault on the judiciary, spurred by court decisions that have blocked several Trump administration actions, NBC News reports. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Why bungling incompetence of Donald Trump's lackeys has silver lining

The inclusion of a journalist in a US Cabinet-level discussion of secret plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen underlines how unfit for high office these Trump loyalists really are

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3 w. ago Top Democrat accuses Trump officials of lying as Gabbard again denies classified information shared in group chat – live

Senator Mark Warner, who questioned national intelligence director and CIA director on Tuesday says messages clearly classified as Gabbard doubles down on claimsNewly released messages show Trump advisers discussed Yemen attackUnder pressure from his rightwing base to challenge judges who have ruled against Donald Trump, speaker of the House Mike Johnson suggested on Tuesday that Congress could consider eliminating certain federal courts.It forms part of a broader assault on the judiciary, spurred by court decisions that have blocked several Trump administration actions, NBC News reports. Continue reading...

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3 w. 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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3 w. ago What the accidentally leaked war group chat reveals about the Trump administration | Moira Donegan

Thanks to the Signal leaks, we can see how the administration acts when they think they are in private. It’s not a pretty sightPerhaps one of the greatest lessons of the Donald Trump era, for me, has been in learning the difference between being shocked and being surprised. And indeed it was a bit shocking to learn, via an essay published by the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, that a high-profile journalist had been included on a chat on the commercial messaging app in which a military strike on the Houthi rebels in Yemen was coordinated – including discussions of the timing of the attack, debates about political messaging, personnel coordination and weapons to be used – seemingly without anyone noticing that he was there.It was shocking that their incompetence was so fortuitous – that the person they included, seemingly accidentally, in their unsecured group chat about war plans was someone so uniquely equipped to broadcast their idiocy to a large audience. But it was ...

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3 w. 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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3 w. ago Leaked Signal texts in full as Trump team discussed Yemen attack via group chat

The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to the group in the highly-encrypted messaging app, where he became privy to top-secret war plans.

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