Salos has been caused to USA Following the revelation that Donald Trump’s security adviser has accidentally put a journalist in a confidential group conversation about their bombing Houthi In Yemen on March 15, 2025.
From March 13th to 15th, users who appeared, among other things, as the US Vice President, J. D. Vans, Defense Minister Pitt Hegshez and White House National Security Advisor Michael Wells exchanged views and information on the forthcoming blow to Houthi, not paying attention to the “JG”- the initials of the journalist- who were among them. They did not even deal with him when he left the conversation after the attack on Yemen.
O US Defense Minister, Pitt Hegsheth He said, for his part, that no war plans were discussed in a group conversation, in which the journalist and editor -in -chief of “The Atlantic” participated.
“No one was sending messages for war plans” Hegsheth replied, denying the allegations of The Atlandic editor -in -chief who announced he had accidentally received a hidden conversation about an impending operation against Houthi.
The White House confirmed that The editor -in -chief of The Atlantic Magazine was included in the recipients of the upcoming military operation of Donald Trump’s government against Houthi rebels in Yemen. This is an unprecedented breach of the security protocol and essentially a bustling blunder, which is being investigated.
From the Senate step on Monday (24.03.2025), the leader of the Republics, Chuck Smer, spoke of “One of the most impressive violations of military information I’ve read for a long time” And he called on the Republicans to pursue “complete research on how this happened, the damage he created and how we can avoid it in the future.”
“Each of the government officials in this text chain has now committed a crime – even by mistake,” Senator Chris Kouss wrote in X. “We cannot trust anyone in this dangerous government to keep Americans safe.”
What exactly happened
According to Atlantic’s report, editor -in -chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally invited to a Signal chat group with more than twelve senior Trump government officials, including the vice president Jay Di Vance, Foreign Minister Mark Rubio, The National Security Advisor Mike Waltsthe Minister of Defense Pitt Hegsheth And others.
The report reveals not only a historical mismanagement of classified information, but also a potentially illegal chain of communication, where sensitive military plans for air raids against Houthi rebels in Yemen were accidentally distributed in a encrypted group chat.
“It made us look weak to our opponents,” he told Guardian California MP R HANA. “We have to take the cyberspace much more seriously and I look forward to leading it.”
As the leading Democrat in the House of Intelligence Committee, Jim Hines has overseen countless confidential updates. But the leak of the forthcoming war plans of the Signal talks has made him “Terrorized.”
“If it is true, these actions are a brutal violation of the laws and regulations available to protect national security, including the security of Americans who are at risk.”he said. “These people are aware of the devastating risks of transmitting graded information through unregulated systems and also know that if a low -ranking official under their orders did what is described here, they would probably lose his authorization and be subject to criminal investigation.”
THE Senator Mark Warnera Democratic Representative to the Senate Information Committee, posting: “This government is playing quickly and relaxed with the most secret information of our nation and this makes all Americans less secure.”
THE Republican Senator John Cornin He described the incident more laconically, telling reporters that it was “a huge mistake” and suggesting that “the sector will examine it” to see how such a significant security error occurred.
The White House confirmed the leak.
THE Representative of the National Security Council Brian Hughes He said: “This seems to be an authentic chain of messages and we are considering how an involuntary number was added to the chain.”
But the White House tried to defend communications, with Hughes describing the messages as an example of “deep and studied political coordination between senior officials”.
Attack Hegschez on the reporter who revealed the blunder
THE US Secretary of Defense Pitt Hegsheth denied that he handled in the wrong way graded information and insisted that “no one was sending messages for war plans” in Signal conversation Among senior Trump government officials, released on Monday by a journalist added … by mistake to the team.
In fact, Hegschez attempted to deconstruct the credibility of Jeffrey Goldberg, editor -in -chief of The Atlantic, following the publication of a revealing report describing how the journalist was added to the group conversation where the defense minister analyzed the targets.
‘We’re talking about a insincere and extremely unreliablea so -called journalist, who has professed Hoaxes. This is a guy who market trash“, Hegschez was obviously upset about Goldberg, whom Politico describes a renowned reporter and author in Washington.
Hegschez, who made the above statements on his arrival in Hawaii, before his tour this week in Asia, did not, however, deny the existence of the conversation, which may have violated a federal law on the handling of sensitive information.
Vice President GDD participated in the group he was discussing the highly secret blows. Vance, National Security Advisor Mike Walts and CIA Director John Ratclif.
The US National Security Council spokesman, Brian Hughes, appeared to counter Hegschez’s statements on Monday night, confirming the existence of the conversation team and avoiding denying its content. “At this stage, the thread of the messages included in the report seems to be authentic and we look at how a number was accidentally added,” he said.
The conversation, created by Walts a few days before the launch of the Iranian -backed organization, included officials’ positions and thoughts on whether and how the Trump government should bomb the Houthi, who have targeted the sea.
The information shared by Hegschez with the team was likely to include graded material, which makes the blunder that seems to be extremely serious. According to a Politico report, White House officials were investigating Walts’ future role in government on Monday night.
Pentagon officials are alleged to have been left unaware of the revelations, while Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell did not respond to requests for journalists for a comment.
Senator Jack Reed of Rond Island, a leading Democratic official in the Armed Forces Committee, said that “this case is One of the most blatant failures in operational security And common sense I’ve ever seen. “
The first Trump reaction
The US president received a question about this revelation during an event. “I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of The Atlantic. For me it is a collapsing magazine ‘, replied.
He then asked the journalist what it was. When he explained to him that the issue had to do with the US business against Houthi, Trump said: “The attack was very effective.”
How a journalist was found in a government chat
As he describes in detail in The Atlanticto March 11th Jeffrey Goldberg received a connection request on the Signal platform by a user who appeared as Michael Wells, as Donald Trump’s national security adviser is called.
“I did not assume that the request was by Michael Wells himself (…) I thought it was a little unusual because of the government’s relationship with the journalists and Trump’s magazine obsession with me. I immediately thought that one could portray Wells to trap me ‘, The journalist describes.
“I accepted the request, hoping that he was indeed the National Security Advisor and wanted to discuss Ukraine, Iran or some other important issue,” he notes.
Two days later, at March 13at 16:28 Goldberg received notice that was included in a Group conversation in Signal by name «Houthi PC small group». A message was followed by a group conversation by Michael Wells, who said that a committee of senior officials was created “for coordination for the Houthi, especially for the next 72 hours”.
Usually, the highest -ranking officials for national security, including the Ministries of Defense, Foreign Affairs, Finance and the CIA Director, explains, Goldberg explains.
“Needless to say that I have never been invited to such a White House committee and in many years I have been reporting on national security issues I have never heard such a committee come together through a commercial messaging application,” he points out.
A minute later, a person who appeared as’MAR“- The Foreign Minister is Marco Rubio- wrote” Mike Ninham for the Foreign Ministry “, apparently appointing State Department as his spokesman for the conversation. At the same time, a user who appeared as “J. D. Vance » He wrote “Andy Baker for the Vice President”.
They followed corresponding messages by the user ‘TG»- Probably the director of the Tules Gabard’s intelligence services or someone who played her- by the “Scott B.”apparently to Finance Minister Scott Bessed and from Pitt Hegschez, as the Minister of Defense is called.
In fact, the CIA Director, John Ratcliff, He gave the conversation the name of the official of the service, which the journalist does not make public, as he is an active agent.
Goldberg explains that he has consulted several of his colleagues on this case.
They considered the possibility of the messages in the context of a misinformation campaign, either by a foreign intelligence or – more likely – than one of the teams trying to bring journalists in a difficult position.
“I had very serious doubts that this group conversation was true, because I could not believe that the US leadership for national security would communicate via Signal for upcoming war plans. Also, I could not believe that the president’s national security adviser would be so careless that he included The Atlantic editor -in -chief in such discussions with high -ranking US officials reaching the vice president, “he explains, among other things.