President Donald Trump still has full confidence in his national security team, “a spokeswoman for the White House Karoline Leavitt told Reuters. This is her answer after the editor's revealing the warehouse of The Atlantic magazine that the most important members of the US administration, including vice president JD Vance, sent military attack plans at the messenger in a group time. And they did not know that they added a random person to the chat who learned the secret plans of the USA.
The editor -in -chief of “The Atlantic” Jeffrey Goldberg described in the article how he was accidentally added to the group chatter of the Signal messenger used by high -ranking administration members USAwhere, among others, plans for military attacks for Hutich's purposes were discussed Yemen. Among others, the boss were to participate in the conversation Pentagon Pete HegeSeth, US Vice President JD Vance or Michael Waltz, President's Advisor for National Security.
Democratic politicians criticized this error, saying that there was a violation of US national security and a violation of law, which must now be examined immediately by the Congress.
Among the people participating in the group chat in the Signal messenger was – in addition to the journalist – Joe Kent, nominated by Donald Trump for the position of director of the National Anti -terrorist Center. The problem in this case is also that it has not yet been approved by the Senate.
White House: Trump still has full confidence
Trump told reporters in the White House that he did not know about the incident. – I don't know anything about it. I am not a big fan of “The Atlantic” – added the president. The White House official later said that the investigation was underway and Trump was informed about it.
Later, on his social networking site he also posted a satirical article and commentary by Elon Musk, who mocked the magazine readers. “The best place to hide the corpse is the other side of The Atlantic magazine, because nobody ever looks there,” Musk wrote.
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– We're just learning about it. But of course we have to examine this and determine what happened there. We will have a plan – said the leader of the majority in the Senate, a Republican from South Dakota John Thune.
The White House did not suggest immediately that the violation would lead to any staff changes. “President Trump still has full confidence in his national security team, including Mike Waltz's national security advisor,” a spokeswoman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, told Reuter.
“Abnormally illegal” actions, “crime”
Democratic legislators considered the use of the group in the Signal messenger as illegal and demanded that the investigation be investigated. – This is one of the most shocking violations of military intelligence, which I read for a very, long time – said the Democrats leader in the Senate Chuck Schumeradding that he will ask the leader of most Thune to examine the case.
Senator Democrats Elizabeth Warren said that the use of such a means of communication to discuss highly sensitive national security issues was “grossly illegal and dangerous beyond all measure.”
“Each of the government officials attached to this text chain committed a crime, even if inadvertently, for which the prison would normally be punishable,” wrote democratic senator Chris Coons on Platform X.
HegeSeth denied him to send plans to hit the group chat
“Nobody sent war plans, that's all I have to say,” only the head of Pentagon Pentagon said shortly after landing in Hawaii on Monday.
Goldberg claims that two hours before hitting on Saturday, March 15, HegeSeth sent a group plan to the Hutich attack with details regarding the location of the target, used weapons and strength. 18 people were to participate in the chat, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, vice president of JD Vance, boss Wagon John Ratcliffe and national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard.
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– We are talking about a fraudulent and highly discredited so -called journalist who professionally deals with multiple dissemination of fraud. He is a guy who spreads nonsense, 'said HegeSeth.
– The secretary of defense gives the impression of a frivolous person who tries to divert attention from the fact that he took part in a conversation on a widely available application for sending a message, in which he probably should not participate – however, Goldberg answered in an interview with MSNBC.
HegeSeth denied the reports of the journalist, despite the fact that the authenticity of the news he revealed was confirmed by the spokesman of the National Security Council Brian Hughes. Also, the Chamber of Representatives Mike Johnson said that the administration “admitted that it was a mistake.” The head of the Senate Commission for the Armed Forces Roger Wicker announced that he was going to investigate the case.
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