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The best national security officials for President Donald Trump, including his defense secretary, sent war plans for the next military strikes to Yemen to a group cat in a secure messaging application which included the editor -in -chief of the Atlantic, the magazine reported in a history published Monday online. The National Security Council said that the “seems authentic” text chain.
The equipment of the text chain “contained the operational details of the upcoming strikes on theHouthi-rebels in Yemen,Including information on targets, weapons in the United States that is deploying and sequencing attacks, “said editor Jeffrey Goldberg.
It was not immediately clear if the details of the military operation were classified, but they are often and at least are kept safe to protect soldiers and operational security. The United States has led air strikes against the Houthis since the militant group began to target commercial and military ships in red Sea in November 2023.
Only two hours after Goldberg received details from theAttack on March 15The United States has started launching a series of air strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.
The National Security Council said in a statement that he was examining how the number of a journalist was added to the chain in the cat in the signal group.
Trump told journalists that he was not aware of the apparent violation of the protocol.
“I don’t know,” said Trump, adding that the Atlantic was “not really a magazine”. He continued saying, “I don’t know anything about it. You tell me for the first time. ”
Government representatives used the organizational correspondence signal, but it is not classified and can be hacked.
The sharing of sensitive information occurs while the office of the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has just announced arepression of leaksSensitive information, including the potential use of polygraphs on defense staff to determine how journalists have received information.
Sean Parnell, a spokesperson for HegSeth, did not immediately respond to requests for comments on the reasons why the defense secretary published operational war plans on an unlimited application.
The processing of information on national defense is strictly governed by law under the centenary espionage law, including the provisions which make it a crime to withdraw this information from its “good place of guard”, even by an act of serious negligence.
In 2015 and 2016, the Ministry of Justice investigated whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broke the law by communicating classified information with her assistants on a private messaging server she created, although the FBI finally recommended against accusations and none was carried.
In the Biden administration, some officials have received permission to download a signal on their phones issued by the White House, but were invited to use the application with sparse, according to a former national security official who served in the democratic administration.
The official, who asked anonymity to talk about the methods used to share sensitive information, said that the signal was most often used to communicate what they called internally “Tippers” to inform someone when they were far from the office or traveling abroad that they should check their “High Side” reception box for a classified message.
The application was sometimes also used by managers of the Biden administration to communicate on the planning of sensitive meetings or classified telephone calls when they were outside the office, said the manager.
This story was initially presented on Fortune.com
