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Investing.com — A group of top Trump administration officials, including U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, inadvertently included a journalist in a messaging group where they were discussing military strikes against Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis. The Atlantic magazine’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed this information in a report on Monday.
Goldberg discovered he was mistakenly invited on March 13 to a secure chat group on the Signal messaging app, named the “Houthi PC small group.” Within this group, national security adviser Mike Waltz instructed his deputy Alex Wong to form a “tiger team” responsible for coordinating U.S. action against the Houthis.
On March 15, U.S. President Donald Trump initiated a continuing series of large-scale military strikes against Yemen’s Houthis. The strikes were in response to the group’s attacks on Red Sea shipping. Trump has also issued a warning to Iran, the main supporter of the Houthis, to immediately cease backing the group.
Just before the strikes started, Hegseth posted details about the operational plan in the chat group. According to Goldberg, this included information on targets, the weapons the U.S. planned to use, and the sequencing of the attack. Goldberg chose not to disclose the specifics of what he called the “shockingly reckless” use of the Signal chat to organize the strike.
When asked for a comment, the Defense Department directed a request to the National Security Council (NSC). NSC spokesman Brian Hughes confirmed that the chat group seemed to be genuine.
Instead of carrying on with the deep state’s wars, Trump would be better served to spend his time reorienting his government toward competence. I doubt the deepsters would be offended by competence.
This is an egregious foul up.
Hegseth probably should never apprise folks of details unless Need to Know.
Next, probably one of his admins who set up the call needs to go. Or Waltz’s like Alex Wong.
That person should be gone.
Third … aren’t there regs on preserving internal government communications (formerly known as emails)
Is Signal Chat secure (of itself)??
Amateur hour in the Trump administration
Well they learned something from this mistake …and the Strikes went off without a hitch in spite of the booboo
No harm no foul
It’s not the last mistake they will make
But they got away with it…so !
Yup, they blew up a bunch of ancient buildings, and a bunch of innocent people. Back patting time at the pentagon! All of the Houthi’s weapons, warriors, and weapons making factories, are deep underground. The same is true for Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, and most significantly, the IRG in Iran. Stupid is, as stupid does.
And what did they learn from this “mistake”? Not to include Israeli agents on the meeting list? Everybody on the fucking list is working for Israel, whether they know it or not!