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Top US officials mistakenly leaked war plans on Signal.
Senior Trump Administration officials, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, and national security advisor Mike Waltz, leaked war plans by mistakenly adding The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to their Signal chat. Goldberg was added to the chat by Waltz, whose future as national security advisor is now in doubt, according to POLITICO. The officials used the chat to discuss the upcoming bombing campaign against the Houthis in Yemen. Goldberg says he assumed the chat was fake until the bombing began several hours later. The messages included "precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing."
The National Security Council said in a statement, "At this time, the message thread that was reported appears to be authentic, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain." While Signal is considered one of the most secure publicly available messaging apps, the BBC notes that its use by government officials to share classified information may have violated federal laws such as the Espionage Act.