On March 25th, the White House admitted on March 24th local time that several senior officials of the Trump administration used a non confidential chat application to discuss highly sensitive military plans, inadvertently adding a journalist to the group chat, which quickly drew criticism from national security agencies. The Atlantic Monthly reported that its editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to a group chat about Trump’s national security team planning an attack on Yemen. Goldberg’s article provides a detailed account of the intense policy discussions that took place prior to the military operation against Houthi militants in Yemen on March 15th. Goldberg stated that he was added to a group chat on the encrypted information platform Signal by Waltz, the National Security Advisor to the President of the United States. Other participants included Vice President Vance, Defense Secretary Hergeuse, and Central Intelligence Agency Director Ratcliffe.
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