On Wednesday, the Atlantic magazine published a whole text chat with the participation of older US national security officials about recent strikes against Houthis Yemen, a top secret conversation, which accidentally covered the editor of the warehouse.
The full length is revealed by two intensive days during which older members of American intelligence and defense agencies They tried to explain How the detailed information that the present and former US officials found was classified on an unclassified chat on the SMS application signal and included Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic.
Jim Himes, a Democrat ranking in the Chamber's intelligence committee, said at the beginning of the interrogation on Wednesday that it was possible that America's geopolitical rivals could capture the contents of the chat and warned Houthi.
“It is because of God's amazing grace that we do not mourn dead pilots,” said Himes.
The publication of the entire warehouse chat showed that the Secretary of Defense Pete HegeSeth ensured the exact times of layered premiere, strike packages and goals – before men and women are flying these attacks on Houthi at the beginning of this month on behalf of the USA.
HegeSeth refused to determine if he had published classified information about the signal. He travels in the Indo-Pacific region and so far laughed at only the questions, saying that he did not reveal “war plans”.
Officials again deny the allegations of Intel Classified Intel
The director of the National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, said on Tuesday to members of the Senate an intelligence commission that it depends to determine whether the information he has published was approved or not.
Gabbard changed her opening statement at a home session to admit that “honest and sensitive” information was discussed, but she still claimed that the classified intelligence was not made available despite the latest apparitions.
Signal is a publicly available application that provides encrypted communication, but you can hack it. It is not approved for transferring classified information.
Ratcliffe repeated his Avwals from the previous day that no classified information was made available.
In Congress's testimonies, on Tuesday, most often Trump administration officials refused to provide information on secret information about group chat in the group's chat in the application for sending a signal message in which the journalist was incorrectly added.
Democrat Joaquin Castro from Texas stated that as former members of Congress, Ratcliffe and Gabbard were initiated into sessions read classified information about a much less serious character than Houthi raids.
“You know it's a lie,” said Castro from their claims. “It's a lie of the country.”
Director of the FBI, Kash Patel, also invited to testimonies in the home committee, but not for a signal chat, said he said does not comment Will the agency open an investigation into a violation of security.
Republican panel members were largely guided by this topic, although Austin Scott from Georgia got officials confirmation that no specific purposes or location data were disclosed on signal chat.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has published a similar statement in social media.
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What was revealed in the latest Atlantic shipping was stunning in its specificity and contains a kind of information that is stored to protect the operational security of a military strike.
HegeSeth published:
- “1215T: Prime Minister F-18S (1st Strike package)”
- “1345:” The Strike “Trigger” F-18 window begins (the target terrorist is its known location, so it should be on time-so, drone strike (MQ-9S) “
- “1410: More premieres of F-18S (second impact package)”
- “1415: hit the drones on the target (then the first bombs will definitely fall, expecting” targets based on triggers “)” “
- “1536 F-18 initial strike-even the first sea Tomahawks started.”
- “More to follow (on schedule)”
- “We are currently clean at OPSEC” – that is, operational security.
- “God speed for our warriors.”
Several Democrats, as in Tuesday's session, called HegeSetha to resign.
US President Donald Trump began the ongoing campaign on a large scale military strikes against Houthi Yemenu on March 15 in connection with the group's attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, and warned Iran, the main sponsor of Houthi that he must immediately stop support for the group.
Goldberg was incorrectly invited to the signal group by Waltz. Trump's national security advisor and journalist had contacted earlier, but none of the parties have yet determined how Goldberg was added to the chat.
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Trump, HegeSeth and Waltz described a journalist in pejorative terms and questioned his motives. Democratic Himes said on Wednesday that he discovered it disturbing.
“What do you think people who work for you?” He said.
Goldberg said in the preamble to the Wednesday article that the Atlantic stood in the face of the “dilemma”, taking into account the Ratcliffe and Gabbard statements at the hearing of the committee from the previous day.
“We basically do not publish information about military operations if this information could threaten the lives of American staff,” wrote Goldberg.
Signal is a publicly available application, which is said to be widely used by US government officials. The signal provides encrypted communicationHowever, these messages can still be read using access to an unlocked or exposed phone. It is not approved for transferring classified information.
In interviews and statements from the first Atlantic article in this case, Trump disregarded this incident.
“There was no problem, and the attack was a huge success,” said Newsmax in an interview with the broadcast on Tuesday.
The president said that the democrats stop in the history of signal chat, because the administration enjoyed “two perfect months”.
But questions about the handling of confidential administration information appeared to examine and criticize on other fronts.
Last week, it learned that the numbers of social insurance were accidentally published in the screenshot of documents related to the investigations of loud American political murders from the 1960s.
Democrats also accused the administration of improper permission to advisor of billionaire Elon Musk and the team under his auspicity access to confidential government information, as well as some information belonging to American citizens. Musk and members of the Department of the Government Department (DOGE) were not confirmed by their roles.
Trump was accused between the presidential conditions after allegedly found documents classified in his two properties, Florida and New Jersey. Trump stood in the face of allegations pursuant to the espionage act as long as the judge has controversial rejected the case. Trump's win in November basically killed all chances for federal prosecutors until this decision would appeal.
Democrats accused Trump and Republicans of hypocrisy in their reactions to signal chat so far, Considering the way they threw themselves at the E -Maili service by Democrat Hillary Clinton In the previous administration, which led to the investigation and statement of the then director of FBI James Comey that Clinton was “extremely careless”.