USA. Signal scandal and leakage of war plans. Government organs and Muska team “study the incident”

Elon Musk's team joined the chat of the chat in Signal, which was confirmed by the spokeswoman for the White House Caroline Leavitt. A few days ago, the editor -in -chief of The Atlantic announced that he was mistakenly added to a group conversation, where the most important US administration members discussed the plans of military attacks.

On Monday, the editor -in -chief of the magazine Jeffrey Goldberg in the magazine described how mistakenly added to the closed chat on the Signal messengerin which leading members of the American administration discussed the attack on the Yemenian rebels.

The journalist received access to detailed surgery plans two hours before hitting. The conversations were attended by, among others: Pentagon head Pete HegeSeth, vice president USA JD Vance and President's Advisor for National Security Michael Waltz. The authenticity of the disclosed messages was confirmed by the spokesman of the National Security Council Brian Hughes.

In response to the officials of the officials The editorial office of “The Atlantic” She published a full text group discussion about the planned huti hit in Yemen. Journalists decided that public opinion should know the content of these messages, “to draw their own conclusions”.

A spokeswoman for the White House: Several organs, including Elona Musk's team, an incident research

On Wednesday, a spokeswoman for the White House Karoline Leavitt announced that the Biała Doma Legal Advisors Office, National Security Council, and Elona Musk's team are investigating the chat incident in Signal. She added that this is an approved application that is installed on government phones in the Pentagon, the Department of State and the Central Intelligence Agency.

She argued that the thread that appeared in the news was a political discussion. Leavitt also assured that Donald Trump He still trusts his team, and operations against Huti will continue.

Reservations to Signala

Meanwhile, also on Wednesday An anonymous Pentagon official emphasizedthat although the chats on Signal are encrypted in a way that makes it difficult for someone to read the flow of data, it is no secret that Russia and China They have long been working on breaking the cipher used in the application. He noted, however, that the main risk is not in the application's security, but in the possibility of hacker hackers on the device itself. “Then such a person will be able to read everything, regardless of the quality of the cipher of individual applications,” he said.

The head of Pentagon Pete HegeSth argued that “”Nobody sent war plans“.

This position is shared by the director Wagon John Ratcliffe and the head of the national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who on Tuesday were interrogated in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee. “No secret materials were sent during this conversation at Signal,” Gabbard argued. US President Donald Trump is the same opinion. “This was not information covered by a secrecy clause,” he said on Tuesday.

Gabbard on Wednesday in the House of Representatives maintained that adding a journalist to the discussion on Signal was a mistake, but no classified information was given there. “The National Security Advisor took full responsibility for this, and the National Security Council carries out an in -depth analysis,” she said.