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The officials should have used a secure channel to discuss highly sensitive information (which they all know as they spent years attacking Democrats for allegedly taking risks with government secrets...
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Some election officials are praising Trump's move. That includes Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican who once feuded with Trump over false claims of election fraud.
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Jeffrey Goldberg joins Ashley Parker to discuss breaking the Signal story, the fallout, and more. Don’t miss this subscriber-only event on Thursday, April 3 at 11:30 a.m. ET.
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.
"My phone number was in his phone because my phone number is in his phone," Jeffrey Goldberg says of Mike Waltz The post The Atlantic Editor Is ‘Not Intimidated’ by Trump Administration’s Tactics Over Signal Text Scandal | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
“Had that information fallen into the hands of a U.S. adversary that had been in the group, or had [Goldberg] been a less scrupulous journalist and tweeted it, that information would then be known to the Houthis, who would be able to prepare defenses and a counterattack that absolutely would jeopardize the lives of U.S. forces,” Harris continued.
As senior officials deny wrongdoing, rank-and-file national-security personnel worry about the dangers if no one is held accountable.
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Trump administration officials say the Atlantic debunked its own story that senior security officials shared "war plans" in a Signal group chat that included its editor-in-chief.
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The Signal thread included President Donald Trump's national security advisor Michael Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance and others.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth again on Tuesday dodged questions about whether the information he put in a Signal group chat was classified. In Hawaii, he repeated almost word for word his short statement from the day before that “nobody’s texting war plans.”
The president is privately upset with the sloppiness of his advisers. Publicly, he’s focused on attacking the press.