Republican calls to investigate a group chat in which White House national security officials shared sensitive military information has intensified, with Oklahoma Senator James Lankford saying it is “entirely appropriate”. Lankford stopped short of calling for officials to resign when speaking to CNN on Sunday, but he joins a growing number of Republicans who have...
Watch: ‘Why did they invite me?’ – Goldberg says Trump officials should accept mistake When Jeffrey Goldberg published a bombshell story outlining how some of the most senior US officials had mistakenly shared sensitive information with him, he obtained the biggest scoop of the year. The Atlantic editor also became the prime target for every...
The White House reacted furiously on Wednesday after The Atlantic magazine published messages between national security officials in a Signal group chat in their entirety. Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist who was inadvertently included in the chat among senior cabinet leaders, shared texts in which US defence secretary Pete Hegseth provided sensitive information such as detailed...
Kayla Epstein BBC News, New York Bloomberg White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz For the past 48 hours, top White House officials have faced questions from lawmakers and the press about how a journalist came to join a sensitive group chat for an upcoming military operation – and why President Donald Trump’s national security...
Jeffrey Goldberg has told the BBC that top Trump officials who accidentally added him to a group chat discussing bombings in Yemen, should accept their mistake. Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, has released the full exchange from the Signal group chat. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday “someone made a big mistake” inviting...
US President Donald Trump’s national security team faces scandal after a reporter was mistakenly added to a messaging group in which senior officials discussed attack plans on the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen. Trump and his team have continued to insist that “classified” information was not shared in the Signal group chat that included the...
Reuters Mike Waltz says he doesn’t know the journalist who was added to group chat US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz has taken responsibility for a group chat in which high-ranking officials planned military strikes in Yemen in the company of a journalist who was inadvertently added. “I take full responsibility. I built the group,”...
Americans in Washington DC are reacting to a Signal group chat leak where a journalist was inadvertently added to a chat where US national security officials discussed a planned military strike. The revelation has raised questions about why high-ranking officials discussed such sensitive matters on a potentially vulnerable civilian app. US Director of National Intelligence...
Bernd Debusmann Jr at the White House & Brandon Drenon on Capitol Hill BBC News, Washington DC Watch: Key reactions to reports of a leaked group chat involving Trump officials US President Donald Trump and his intelligence chiefs have played down a security breach that saw a journalist invited into a Signal group chat where he reported seeing national security officials...
Getty Images Positions taken by senior US officials Michael Waltz (C), JD Vance (2nd R) and Pete Hegseth (R) have made European leaders and policy-makers “sick to the stomach”, an EU official said “Horrific to see in black and white. But hardly surprising,” is how a top European diplomat reacted to what comes across as...
Tom Gerken Technology reporter Getty Images The free messaging app Signal has made headlines after the White House confirmed it was used for a secret group chat between senior US officials. The editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, was inadvertently added to the group where plans for a strike against the Houthi group in Yemen...
Lily Jamali & Max Matza & Kayla Epstein BBC News Watch: Mike Johnson defends Trump administration after Yemen group chat mishap The leak of classified information by President Donald Trump’s national security team on an unsecured chat app may have broken three basic rules, according to analysts. Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported that he was...