In a group chat, high-ranking representatives of the US government exchanged secret information on US attacks on Yemen, in which a journalist was also clearly inadvertently read. Jeffrey Goldberg made this public on Monday evening, he is the editor -in -chief of US magazine The Atlantic and was part of the chat. As a result, he may have documented several legislative violations by government officials participating around Vice President JD Vance, Defense Minister PT Hegaseeth and Finance Minister Scott Basar. The White House has now confirmed the authenticity of the chat according to media reports.
A sign group with many American ministers
How to tell in Goldberg articleHe was contacted on the signal on 11 March by a user named Michael Waltz. It is the name of US President Donald Trump. He confirmed the request and two days later he was added to a signal group called “Houthi PC Small Group”. Hathi rebellious is a war party in Yemen, “PC” should therefore stand up for the “Principal Committee”, a working group of various American ministers. In the Atlantic editorial team, there was a lot of doubt about the authenticity of the group and an attempt to highlight a disintegration campaign or journalists. Nevertheless, he remained in the Goldberg group.
In later days, several interactions were exchanged and discrepancies were detected about the upcoming attack on Yemen. The US vice -president said it would be a mistake as the attacks of European trade interests would be more use than the American. Later several speeches, which Goldberg cited in detail, gives an impression that Vance was assured to agree in the chat in this chat, which he finally did. Defense Minister Hegseth later spread several details about the upcoming attack in the “shocking non -respected” group chat.
Attack confirms the authenticity of the group
Goldberg was also doubted at that time, but was expected to show it at that time whether the chat was real or not. In fact, he then gave the first report about America Attack on Sanaa, the capital of Gemin found. After a while, the participants were congratulated, especially in an contribution with emozis “👊🇺🇸🔥”. The journalist, who was now confident of the authenticity of the group, went out of it. A spokesman for the National Security Council explained a short time later, “This seems to be an authentic news series” and was investigated how someone was accidentally added.
He has not yet experienced a comparable event, Goldberg continues. It is not uncommon to use signals for US state employees, but not only for appointments and logical agreements, not for “detailed and strictly secret discussion about upcoming military stroke”. The National Security Advisor, who placed the group together, is likely to violate several needs of the Steering Act, write Goldberg, mention various experts. There are strict requirements and particularly safe tools for such interactions, which parties must be at home. The signal, in turn, has not been released for this.
Communication properly stored?
As another problem, the journalist identified that some messages were hired in chat that they would be removed after one or four weeks. This raises the question whether the parties involved have violated this communication against the federal laws of storing official communication. – Clearly casual – transfer of information to a journalist is also a prime example of a leak. Goldberg recalls that Donald Trump once went to the White House with an unjust criticism of working with his rival Hillary Clinton with an unjust criticism and was later accused of wrong handling of secret documents. But it was not part of the group.
(MHO)
