Senior US National Security officials They error the detailed plans On the attack against Yemen of March 15 to the Chief Editor of the American magazine The AtlanticJeffrey Goldberg. As explained by the journalist on Monday in an article, Its number was included in a chat of the signal messaging application In which the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth also participated, who sent the documentation.
Goldberg He was invited to the group on March 11 by the National Security Advisor of the White HouseMike Waltz. There were 18 people in it, including vice president, JD Vance; the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio; The director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, or the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Ratcliffe.
Two days later he was invited to join a chain called “Small PC Hutí Group” in which the attacks against Yemeni Hutis militias were talked about, apparently without noticing the presence of the journalist. The documentation dumped in the group included details about the weapons used, the objectives and the schedule Programmed of the attack, according to Goldberg himself.
The journalist explained that, at first, he doubted that the group and its content were real: “I couldn’t believe that the National Security dome of the United States was talking in Signal about imminent war plans. “Nor could he believe that the national security advisor had included him by mistake in the debate with these high positions.
However, Your doubts dissipated When Hegseth sent a message to the group informing that the first explosions would occur in two hours, which finally happened.
“We are investigating how that number was added”
The spokesman for the American National Security Council, Brian Hughes, has confirmed that the message chain was authentic. “It seems that it was an authentic message chain. We are investigating how that number was added inadvertently to the chain“Hughes explained.” The thread demonstrates the deep and thorough coordination between the high positions, “he said.
For his part, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has assured that he was not aware of the apparent Violation of the communication protocol. “I don’t know anything about it,” he has transferred after being asked by journalists, adding that The Atlantic “It is not exactly a magazine.”
The exchange of sensitive information occurs precisely when the Secretary of Defense’s office has just announced a Offensive against sensitive information leaksincluding the possible use of polygraphs in personnel to determine how journalists have received information.
The US National Defense Information Management is strictly governed by law under the centenary espionage law, Including provisions that typify as a crime to remove such information from their “place of appropriate custody”, even through an act of serious negligence.
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