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In a stunning security breach, an American journalist inadvertently received a detailed plan for airstrikes against the Houthis in Yemen, after being accidentally included in a confidential discussion group of the Trump administration.
The revelations have caused widespread shock in Washington, with Donald Trump denying any knowledge of the incident, stating, “I don’t know anything about this.” His spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, asserted that the American president “continues to have the utmost confidence in his national security team, including his national security advisor, Mike Waltz.”
U.S. Senate Democratic Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer, denounced the incident as “one of the most astonishing military intelligence leaks I’ve read in a very, very long time,” and called for a “full investigation.”
The editor-in-chief of the prestigious magazine “The Atlantic,” Jeffrey Goldberg, revealed that he received the attack plan for the March 15 raids against the Houthi rebels in Yemen via the Signal messaging app, two hours before the strikes commenced, containing “precise information about weapons, targets, and timing.”
The White House confirmed the authenticity of the leaks, with National Security Council spokesperson, Brian Hughes, stating, “It appears for now that the message thread reported in the article is genuine, and we are trying to determine how a number was added by mistake.”
The journalist explained that the story began with contact from Mike Waltz on March 11 via Signal, an app popular among reporters and political officials due to its promised privacy.
In the following days, he was invited to join a discussion group with 18 high-level officials, including, according to him, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and Vice President JD Vance.
Following the strikes, the group members reportedly celebrated the operation’s success, with numerous emojis.
The editor-in-chief of “The Atlantic” stated that he had “very strong doubts” about the authenticity of the messages until the first reports of the actual strikes emerged. He added, “I couldn’t believe that the president’s national security council would be so careless as to include the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic,” a magazine often critical of Donald Trump, in such confidential exchanges.
Jeffrey Goldberg did not reveal the confidential details of the attack plan in his article and confirmed that he left the discussion group after the airstrikes.
Brian Hughes attempted to justify the incident, saying that the conversation “constitutes evidence of deep and thoughtful coordination between senior officials.”
In contrast, Pete Buttigieg, a former minister and prominent figure in the Democratic Party, criticized the incident on X, stating, “From an operational security perspective, this is the biggest screw-up possible. These people cannot keep America safe.”
On March 15, the United States conducted extensive bombings of rebel strongholds in Yemen. Donald Trump had threatened the rebels with “hell” after they intensified attacks on maritime trade off the coast of Yemen since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip in October 2023.
The Houthis claim that the American strikes resulted in the deaths of approximately 50 people and injured about a hundred others.
One of the most commented-on reactions to this spectacular leak came from Hillary Clinton, who lost the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump. Clinton had been heavily criticized by Trump for using a private email server for official correspondence when she was Secretary of State. Responding to the article, Clinton wrote on X, “Tell me this is a joke.”
from: fesnews
