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  • Pete Hegseth shared Yemen attack details in second Signal chat – report

    US defense secretary texted strike information to his family in group chat he created, sources tell the New York Times

    Before the US launched military strikes on Yemen in March, Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, sent detailed information about the planned attacks to a private Signal group chat that he created himself, which included his wife, his brother and about a dozen other people, the New York Times reported on Sunday.

    The Guardian has independently confirmed the existence of Hegseth’s own private group chat.

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  • Democrats decry reported dismissal of NSA director Tim Haugh

    Lawmakers say dismissing head of US Cyber Command puts country at risk at a time of ‘unprecedented cyber threats’

    Top congressional Democrats are protesting against the reported firing of Gen Tim Haugh as director of the National Security Agency (NSA), with one lawmaker saying the decision “makes all of us less safe”.

    Haugh and his civilian deputy at the NSA, Wendy Noble, have been dismissed from their roles, the Washington Post reported late on Thursday, with CNN reporting likewise, both outlets citing multiple unnamed officials and other senior sources close to the matter who had requested anonymity. The ousting had not been officially confirmed by the government or the individuals by Friday afternoon, but outrage from critics was fulsome.

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  • Goldberg dismisses Waltz’s Signal leak defense: ‘Numbers don’t just get sucked into other phones’

    Atlantic editor says Trump adviser’s defense for accidentally adding him to war plans chat was implausible

    Atlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg has dismissed the explanation offered by national security adviser Mike Waltz for how he was included in a Trump administration group text chat about – and in advance of – the recent bombing of Houthi rebels in Yemen.

    Goldberg said Waltz’s theory that his contact was “sucked in” to his phone via “somebody else’s contact” was implausible.

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  • Trump has managed to spin Signalgate as a media lapse, not a major security breach | Andrew Roth

    The US administration believes it can divide public attention until there is a new scandal. It may be a winning strategy

    When it comes to Trump-era scandals, the shameless responses to “Signalgate”, in which top administration officials discussing details of an impending strike in Yemen in a group chat without noticing the presence of a prominent journalist, should set alarm bells ringing for its brazenness and incompetence.

    In a particularly jaw-dropping exchange, Tulsi Gabbard, the United States’ director of national intelligence, was forced to backtrack during a house hearing after she had said that there had been no specific information in the Signal chat about an impending military strike. Then, the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg published the chat in full, contradicting Gabbard’s remarks that no classified data or weapons systems had been mentioned in the chat.

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