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Outrage after White House accidentally texts journalist war plans: ‘Huge screw-up’


Security leak triggers bipartisan anger after Atlantic reveals officials inadvertently broadcast highly sensitive military plans

White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist

A catastrophic security leak is triggering bipartisan outrage after the Atlantic revealed that senior Trump administration officials accidentally broadcast highly sensitive military plans through a Signal group chat with a journalist reading along.

On the Senate floor on Monday, the minority leader, Chuck Schumer, called it “one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I have read about in a very, very long time” and urged Republicans to seek a “full investigation into how this happened, the damage it created and how we can avoid it in the future”.

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/journalist-trump-yemen-war-chat-reaction

Author : Joseph Gedeon in Washington

Publish date : 2025-03-25 00:52:00

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