On Monday, shortly after we published a story about a massive Trump-administration security breach, a reporter asked the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, why he had shared plans about a forthcoming attack on Yemen on the Signal messaging app.
“There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal group,” Gabbard told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Ratcliffe said much the same: “My communications, to be clear, in the Signal message group were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information.”.
As a general rule, we do not publish information about military operations if that information could possibly jeopardize the lives of U.S. personnel.
That is why we chose to characterize the nature of the information being shared, not specific details about the attacks.
Experts have repeatedly told us that use of a Signal chat for such sensitive discussions poses a threat to national security.
Waltz, who invited Goldberg into the Signal chat, said yesterday that he was investigating “how the heck he got into this room. »