97 m. ago Pentagon warned of Russian Signal hacker infiltration after massive war plans bungle

Trump administration officials — including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth — included journalist in group chat on app discussing secret military plans

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2 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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2 h. ago Why the Signal chat leak might have exposed a big legal problem for Trump administration

Lawmakers and legal experts claim the Yemen Signal group chat ‘blatantly violated security regulations designed to prevent exactly this kind of leak’

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4 h. ago Harris discussed Irish surplus with US critic who got figure wrong – spokesman

Ireland’s deputy premier Simon Harris held a late-night call with US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick.

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5 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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5 h. ago Who is Mike Waltz? The National Security Adviser under fire for adding journalist to group chat about Yemen strikes

Trump called Waltz a ‘good man’ after news of the group chat snafu broke

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5 h. ago Democrats call for investigations and possible resignations after ‘sloppy, careless, incompetent’ Signal blunder – live

President says national adviser Mike Waltz had ‘learned a lesson’; senate intelligence committee chair criticizes handling of classified informationSignal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of EuropeExploitable flaws: what US adversaries could learn from leakElon Musk appears to be laying the groundwork to privatize some space and satellite operations now under the authority of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), or steer lucrative contracts toward his SpaceX and Starlink companies, former agency employees say.They’re sounding the alarm as at least four other federal agencies have reportedly begun pushing new contracts toward Musk’s Starlink satellite internet company. Musk, the world’s richest man, has been tasked by Donald Trump with drastically slashing the federal government workforce and costs. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Trump’s top team slammed for ‘unbelievably stupid’ security breach after Signal group chat leak

Gordon Brown’s former security adviser slammed Trump’s administration for the ‘extraordinary’ breach

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7 h. ago Signal: What is the app in the Trump leak scandal, how safe is it – and can you really add people by accident?

A magazine journalist’s account of being added to a group chat of U.S. national security officials coordinating plans for airstrikes has raised questions about how highly sensitive information is supposed to be handled

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8 h. ago Top Democrat calls for Hegseth and Waltz to resign and shreds Gabbard over Signal war talk leak

Mark Warner says Trump administration officials failed ‘security hygiene 101’

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8 h. ago Trump dismisses Signal blunder as ‘glitch’ as top Democrat condemns ‘sloppy, careless, incompetent’ error – live

President says national adviser Mike Waltz had ‘learned a lesson’; senate intelligence committee chair criticizes handling of classified informationSignal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of EuropeExploitable flaws: what US adversaries could learn from leakElon Musk appears to be laying the groundwork to privatize some space and satellite operations now under the authority of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), or steer lucrative contracts toward his SpaceX and Starlink companies, former agency employees say.They’re sounding the alarm as at least four other federal agencies have reportedly begun pushing new contracts toward Musk’s Starlink satellite internet company. Musk, the world’s richest man, has been tasked by Donald Trump with drastically slashing the federal government workforce and costs. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Trump backs top security adviser who added journalist to secret Yemen war group chat in blunder

The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg was invited to the app Signal group which included National Security Adviser Michael Waltz and Vice-President JD Vance

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9 h. ago Trump stands by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz after Signal text leak amid calls for resignation: Live

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

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9 h. ago Trump dismisses White House security failure as ‘glitch’ amid calls for resignations – US politics live

President says national adviser Mike Waltz had ‘learned a lesson’ amid calls for Waltz and Pete Hegseth to resignSignal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of EuropeExploitable flaws: what US adversaries could learn from leakElon Musk appears to be laying the groundwork to privatize some space and satellite operations now under the authority of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), or steer lucrative contracts toward his SpaceX and Starlink companies, former agency employees say.They’re sounding the alarm as at least four other federal agencies have reportedly begun pushing new contracts toward Musk’s Starlink satellite internet company. Musk, the world’s richest man, has been tasked by Donald Trump with drastically slashing the federal government workforce and costs. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago White House security leak: who’s who in the Signal group chat

Defense secretary, US vice-president and senior Trump advisers wrote openly about the strikes on YemenUS politics live – latest updatesKey takeaways from the US security leak Continue reading...

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9 h. ago It’s war and peace with Donald and Pete – and the worst group chat the world has ever seen | Marina Hyde

We absolutely won’t tolerate leaks, they said before looping in a journalist to top secret war plans. Feel safe? Me neitherOnce again, we find ourselves having an anguished debate about mobile phones and online safety, in this case asking: should we ban the devices for US national security advisers under the age of 60? Do you know what your national security adviser is doing on his device? Is he using it to stay in touch with other guys in the big-man-osphere to talk about bombing Hooters? Or did he maybe add the editor-in-chief of a leading general interest magazine to a Signal group in the crucial hours running up to a highly sensitive US military operation in Yemen, seemingly committing so many alleged crimes that he should have a full-body orange jumpsuit tattooed on him for ever?By now, you will have caught up with the tale of one of the most idiotic breaches of security imaginable – executed, regrettably, by the actual US national security adviser. Mike Waltz seems to have bee...

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9 h. ago Trump reveals fate of 'f***ing idiot' who leaked top secret war messages

President Donald Trump defended his National Security Adviser Mike Waltz in the wake of the Signal app scandal, calling him a 'good man' who 'learned a lesson.'

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9 h. ago Elon Musk believes he knows why the Trump admin Signal leak was allowed to occur

Musk previously stated that the ‘best place to hide a dead body is page 2 of The Atlantic’ after its editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg’s explosive Signal group chat report

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10 h. ago ‘Heads should roll:’ Democrats and Republicans calling for action in the wake of Signal text leak

Jeffrey Goldberg says that 18 national security and cabinet officials – including Pete Hegseth, JD Vance and Marco Rubio – were added to the ‘Houthi PC small group’ chat

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10 h. ago Trump stands by Mike Waltz after Signal text leak amid calls for resignation: Live

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

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