2 w. ago Goldberg dismisses Waltz’s Signal leak defense: ‘Numbers don’t just get sucked into other phones’

Atlantic editor says Trump adviser’s defense for accidentally adding him to war plans chat was implausibleAtlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg has dismissed the explanation offered by national security adviser Mike Waltz for how he was included in a Trump administration group text chat about – and in advance of – the recent bombing of Houthi rebels in Yemen.Goldberg said Waltz’s theory that his contact was “sucked in” to his phone via “somebody else’s contact” was implausible. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Leaked White House group chat detailing war plans put RAF pilots at risk, former military boss says

A British Voyager plane was reportedly used to refuel American jets defending the aircraft carrier that launched the strikes on March 15, killing more than 50 people.

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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. ago Jesse Watters floats conspiracy theory that journalist sent out fake contact information to get into Mike Waltz’s phone

Jesse Watters claims that Jeffrey Goldberg snuck his way into now-infamous war plans group chat

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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 Full Yemen war plans in bombshell Signal chat between Trump officials released

War plans texted in a group chat over an encrypted chat service are now public.

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3 w. ago What did we learn from the super secret (but entirely hackable) war planning group chat? | First Dog on the Moon

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3 w. ago Trump blames leaked war plan group chat on 'lower level' Mike Waltz staffer: 'Somehow this guy ended up on the call'

Donald Trump revealed who he believes is at fault for a reporter being added to a White House group chat that was detailing war plans.

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3 w. ago Trump attacks The Atlantic editor and denies leaked chat contained classified war plans: Live updates

President facing suggests no punishment for security officials over blunder that saw Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg added to highly-sensitive Signal group chat by mistake

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3 w. ago Democrats demand answers over White House’s ‘careless’ Signal blunder

Senators interrogate US intelligence community after Atlantic editor was added to group chat on Yemen war plansUS politics live – latest updatesDemocratic senators demanded answers from leaders of the US intelligence community on Tuesday on how the top editor of the Atlantic was added to a group chat discussing airstrikes in Yemen, arguing that the “sloppy, careless” leak put national security at risk.The unusual story broke on Monday, when the Atlantic published a piece by its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, who said he had been added to the group on the messaging app Signal, and watched as accounts that appeared to match top Trump administration officials, including Vice-President JD Vance and the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, debated and then coordinated a wave of bombings targeting the Houthis in Yemen. Continue reading...

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3 w. 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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3 w. ago Trump intelligence team grilled in Senate hearing after war plans revealed to journalist in group chat: Live

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

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3 w. ago Jesse Watters says security breach is no worse than adding your aunt to a group about ‘raunchy plans for the bachelor party’

Fox News host downplayed the potential security breach of a journalist accidentally being added to a group chat with national security cabinet members

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3 w. 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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3 w. ago The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg reveals where he was when he realized Yemen war plans were real

Hegseth denied that he was ‘texting war plans’ even after an administration spokesperson confirmed the group chat’s authenticity

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3 w. ago Trump team sparks fury with 'sickening' choice of emojis while describing their war plans in leaked Signal chat

As news broke of the strikes on Yemen, the journalist checked the group chat where he found a flurry of emojis and congratulations flooding the text chain.

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3 w. ago Jon Stewart jokes that US official was ‘distracted’ by TV when he added journalist to secret war plans chat

‘By the way, I might be in this group chat, I don’t know. I don’t check my group chats,’ joked Stewart

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3 w. ago Trump defence secretary Pete Hegseth breaks silence after Yemen war plans shared on group chat

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused The Atlantic's Editor-in-Chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, of “peddling hoaxes” after Trump’s national security team mistakenly included him in their group chat about Yemen’s ‘war plans.’

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3 w. ago Hegseth accuses journalist of ‘peddling hoaxes’ after Yemen war plans shared on group chat

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused The Atlantic's Editor-in-Chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, of “peddling hoaxes” after Trump’s national security team mistakenly included him in their group chat about Yemen’s ‘war plans.’

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