On April 1st, the White House issued a statement on March 31st local time regarding the use of the “Signal” software by senior US government officials to discuss the leakage of information on the operation plan to combat the Houthi armed forces in Yemen. The White House has taken measures to ensure that similar group chat leaks do not occur again. At the White House press conference that day, White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt did not specify the specific measures taken, but she told reporters that “the White House believes this incident has been resolved”. Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, revealed on the Atlantic website on March 24th that he received a connection request from a user named Waltz, the National Security Advisor to the President of the United States, on Signal on March 11th. Two days later, he was added to the “Houthi PC Group” group chat. On the 15th, a user in the group chat with the same name as US Defense Secretary Hegesi sent a message revealing the US military plan to launch an attack on the Houthi militants in Yemen in two hours, including details such as attack targets, attack sequence, and the weapons that the US will deploy.
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