The Signal group chat that senior Trump administration officials convened to discuss military strikes in Yemen has sparked outrage over the reckless way a journalist was mistakenly added to the group. But open government experts have raised another concern as well: the rise in usage of disappearing messaging apps like Signal, which they say could … Read more
The intelligence breach was bad enough, current and former fighter pilots said. But Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s refusal to acknowledge that he should not have disclosed sensitive information about when American fighter pilots would attack sites in Yemen, they said, was even worse. On air bases, in aircraft carrier “ready rooms” and in communities near … Read more
Republicans in control of Congress reacted with a collective shrug on Tuesday to the revelation that top Trump administration national security officials had used a messaging app to chat about military operations, even as Democrats expressed outrage and called for an investigation and resignations. One day after the existence of a group chat about airstrikes … Read more
The Trump administration is dealing with the fallout of an extraordinary leak of internal national security deliberations, disclosed in an encrypted group chat that mistakenly included a journalist from The Atlantic. In the group message among cabinet officials and senior White House staff, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed war plans two hours before U.S. troops … Read more