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The top US leaders, including the vice president and the Minister of Defense, accidentally shared classified details about last week’s military attacks on Yemen with a journalist in an unofficial discussion group. It was a stunning impairment of safety that caused a stir in Washington.
JD Vance and Pete Hegseth were among the members of the chat group in the Signal application, which discussed the operational details of the most important military action, which President Donald Trump has taken from his return to the White House. They blamed the European allies for “feeding” in the United States.
The alleged disturbance of security occurred after the editor -in -chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg’s magazine was added to the chat advisor for the National Security Mike Waltz before last week’s attacks on Yemen’s Husy insurgents. They came after the Huses threatened to renew the attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.
Last year, the Húsi had dozens of attacks on commercial vessels and ships of the US Navy in the Red Sea. They claimed to act from solidarity with the Palestinians and respond to the Israeli offensive against Hamas in Gaza.
On Monday about reports full of contempt by European allies, they proposed to pay for the operation. The authenticity of the cottage was confirmed by the National Security Council. “At the moment, the fiber of the messages that was written is authentic and we are checking how an unwanted number has reached the chain,” said Council spokesman Brian Hughes.
“The fiber testifies to the deep and sophisticated coordination of policies among high officials.
According to Vance it was a mistake
According to Goldberg Vance, he indicated that the threat from the Huses concerns Europeans more, as only a small part of the American trade flows through the Suez Canal. He expressed concern that the United States attack was a “mistake” that threatens a “sharp rise in oil prices”, “saving Europe”.
Several members of the group have suggested that the United States should ask Europe to compensate for blows. Waltz said he was working with the ministries to “determine how to put them together and transfer them to Europeans”.
Another contributor to the group of Trump’s head of the Staff of Stephen Miller, he suggested: “If the United States successfully restore freedom of cruise at the cost of a large cost, it is necessary for them to have another economic profit.”
Trump told reporters on Monday that he “knows nothing” about the escaped interview, and then attacked the medium that published the story. “I am not a big fan of The Atlantic, for me it is a magazine that fails. I think it is not a unfortunate magazine.”
The Republicans also criticize this
Reports have triggered a storm of resentment in the United States. Politicians from the Democratic Party criticized Trump’s government for “incompetence”. Jack Reed, Senator for Rhode Island and the Chief Democrat in the Committee of the Upper Chamber of the Congress, said that “if this story is true, it is one of the worst failures of surgical security and common sense I’ve ever seen.”
“The incompetence of Trump’s government is at risk at home and abroad,” wrote the democratic governor of Illinois JB Pritzker on the social network X.
Criticism from Republicans is rare, but these reports have also criticized Republican politicians. “Classified information should not be transmitted by unsecured channels. And not at all those who do not have security clearances, including journalists. A dot,” wrote Mike Lawler on X Republican Congressman from New York on Monday. “Security measures must be introduced in order to never happen again.”
High -ranking EU diplomats said, in particular, Vance’s comments reflect his deep hostility towards Europe, but that it is still shocking to see how much American support for Europe and its interests is disgusted.
“It is incredible how distorted his thinking is [o výhodách bombardovania Jemenu]”Said one EU diplomat.
“It’s crazy,” another said. “It’s really stunning.”
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