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US President devalues the case in the sign involved a journalist and the military attack against the Huthis do Yemen.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, minimized today the exchange of text messages in a group of ‘chat’ with for a military attack against the Huthis do Yemen, considering that it is “a Small flaw ”.
Trump pointed out that this was “ only failure in two months ” of its presidencywhile Democrats criticized US administration in the Senate for dealing with highly sensitive information carefully.
In the exchange of messages in the group, which inadvertently included a journalist, the National Security Team sent a text message with the Military Operation Plan for Signal.
Speaking to, Trump said the lapse “It turned out not to be serious” And it expressed continuous support to the National Security Counselor Mike Waltz, who, by mistake, added The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, to the chain that included 18 administration officials discussing the planning of the attack.
“Michael Waltz learned a lesson And it’s a good man, ”Trump said in an interview with NBC News.
The president of the United States also seemed Point the guilt to a Waltz advisorunidentified, by Goldberg was added to the chain.
“It was one of Michael’s people on the phone. An employee had his number there”He added.
But the use of the application of sign messages to discuss a sensitive operation exposed the presidency to fierce criticism by the Democratic legislators, who expressed indignation to the insistence of the White House and the high administration officials that no confidential information was shared.
Administration officials have been striving to explain why the application available to the public was used to discuss such a delicate subject.
In this sense, also today, the White House denounced the existence of a “Coordinated attempt” of political funafter Goldberg revealed that he had been mistakenly included in a high level discussion about a US military operation in Yemen.
“This is a coordinated attempt to divert attention from success Of the decisions that President Trump and his administration have made to make America’s enemies pay, ”reads one, which praises recent US military attacks against the Huthis rebels in Yemen.
However, in the Senate, US secret services officials denied in one in the Senate that sensitive data were shared in a signal chat where Goldberg was and coordinating the military attack in Yemen.
The vice president of the United States House of Representatives Intelligence Commission, Democratic Senator Mark Warner, classified the episode as an example of “behavior Negligent, careless e reckless ” who put US lives at risk and asked directly to the director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, participated in the chat.
Gabbard replied that “he will not go into details”, because what happened “is being analyzed”, and insisted that nothing that was exchanged in the conversation was protected information, underlining the difference between malicious and accidental escapes.
For his part, CIA director John Radcliffe admitted, when questioned by Warner, participated in the conversation under the acronym ‘JR’.
“My signal exchanges in the signal were totally allowed and cool and nothing confidential has been shared,” Radcliffe said, to which Warner urged him, as well as Gabbard, who will also have participated in the exchange of messages, sharing everything that was said in this conversation, since, they said, there was no confidential information.
The article published on Monday by Goldberg Details step by step – Without revealing information it considers confidential or that can affect the work of espionage and intelligence – the four days in which he was able to read the discussion between senior government officials about an attack that the Huthis rebels of Yemen say they killed 53 people and injured 98.
Goldberg joined a conversation in the application of encrypted Signal messages, 11 of this month, at the invitation of an account with the name of White House Security Counselor, Mike Waltz, in a group of 18 people who apparently included key figures such as Vice President Jd Vance, Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Gabbard and Radcliffe himself.
