Jeffrey Goldberg, editor -in -chief of the weekly “The Atlantic”, informed about the fatal mistake of American officials. He said that They were mistakenly invited to a group chat with the participation of the highest White House officials on surgery against Huti rebels in Yemen.
We learn from Goldberg's account that the US President's advisor for national security Michael Waltz He invited him to a group discussion by mistake on the encrypted Signal platform. Thanks to this, for the next few days he could observe the discussion between the highest administration officials about the planned hit on the goals of the Yemenian rebels, and two hours before this military operation He received her detailed planand later information about its effects.
“If the information contained there was read by the opponent of the United States, they could be used for cause harm to American staff military and intelligence ” – wrote the editor.
USA. They added a journalist to the group. He had access to secret attack plans
The journalist initially had doubts whether the messages he received was true and whether they were disinformation, but their The authenticity confirmed when attacks in Yemen were carried out as planned. This was also confirmed by the spokesman for the National Security Council Brian Hughes.
“It looks like it is an authentic message chain and We check how the number was added to it accidentally” – Hughes wrote in response to Goldberg's e -mail.
The head of “The Atlantic” noticed that in the discussion preceding the decision to hit Yemen, skeptical voices of this operation appeared, mainly from the vice president of JD Vance. He argued, among others, that it would be difficult to convince US citizens about the rightness of this decision and that Europe will benefit from disproportionately, which uses trade routes leading through the Red Sea to a much greater extent, threatened by Hutich.
They accidentally revealed secret plans. Donald Trump reacts
HegeSth replied that European “Gapa ride” is “pathetic”but noted that only the US is able to carry out surgery on such a scale. Advisor of President Stephen Miller replied that Trump agreed to her, but “soon he is to make it clear to Egypt and Europe, what we expect in return.”
According to Goldberg and the experts he cited, conducting a discussion and sharing sensitive data through a commercial application, representatives of the White House They could break the lawincluding the Spyback Act.
The situation has already been commented on by the US President Donald Trump. – I don't know anything about it – He answered the Republican journalists when asked about the incident.
“You tell me the first one,” he said to one of the reporters.
Sources: AFP, PAP, “The Atlantic”