“ Top Trump Officials Debated War Plans on Unclassified Chat Shared With Journalist”
“Senior Trump administration national-security officials held detailed discussions of highly classified U.S. plans to launch airstrikes against the Houthis using a commercial messaging service and mistakenly included a journalist in the conversation, U.S. officials said Monday”
“The chats over the Signal encrypted messaging service spanned days and included specific information about weapons, targets and timing used in the attack. Such conversations would normally happen in the White House Situation Room or over secure government communications networks designed for top secret information.“
“National-security experts and former officials say that use of Signal for conducting classified discussions about imminent military action was a serious breach of security procedures governing the handling of sensitive defense information.”
“National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes confirmed the authenticity of the chat in a statement to The Wall Street Journal.”
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“Senior Trump administration national-security officials held detailed discussions of highly classified U.S. plans to launch airstrikes against the Houthis using a commercial messaging service and mistakenly included a journalist in the conversation, U.S. officials said Monday”
“The chats over the Signal encrypted messaging service spanned days and included specific information about weapons, targets and timing used in the attack. Such conversations would normally happen in the White House Situation Room or over secure government communications networks designed for top secret information.“
“National-security experts and former officials say that use of Signal for conducting classified discussions about imminent military action was a serious breach of security procedures governing the handling of sensitive defense information.”
“National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes confirmed the authenticity of the chat in a statement to The Wall Street Journal.”
Trump officials texted war plans to a group chat in a secure app that included a journalist
President Donald Trump is downplaying the texting of war plans to a group chat that included a journalist as “the only glitch in two months” of his administration.
