“Incompetence is staggering”: Trump admin accidentally leaked Yemen war plans to Atlantic editor

The first months of the president Donald TrumpThe second period was distinguished by a kind of Scattered weapons: Correct and lack care that made his administration less effective in Dismantling checks in the executive branch. However, knowing that the administration will deal with all sensitive situations with contempt and ignorance, do not make the latest story from the Atlantic Editor -in -Chief Jeffrey Goldberg less shocking.

Goldberg reports It was accidentally added to a group chat on the signal of the correspondence application by Trump’s security advisor Mike Walz Earlier this month. In the chat, Valus spoke with the vice president JD Vancedefense minister Higseth House And the Minister of State Marco Rubio About their upcoming attacks at the time Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Goldberg initially believed that the message was just a smart grant trick, a trick by the hosts of journalists to embarrass journalists by making them reporting wrong information. Goldberg’s frequency came from the belief that high -ranking officials would be more cautious than sensitive data such as US military movements.

He wrote: “I had very strong doubts that this text collection was real, because I could not believe that the United States National Security Command would continue about a sign of the imminent war plans.”

These doubts were set aside when Higseth participated in detail about the upcoming air strikes at the time of Houthi -controlled targets. Goldberg said he had waited news from Yemen to confirm that the chat, which was hosted by fixed security protocols for government officials, was legitimate. When the Yemeni Ministry of Health stated that 53 people were killed by the United States on March 15, Goldberg knew that he had unintentionally obtained the real article.

Goldberg did not share details about the operational information that Higseth has shared, fearing that the content content may endanger American operations.

He wrote: “The information contained in it, if a discount for the United States reads it, it can be used to harm US military and intelligence personnel, especially in the broader Middle East, the field of central responsibility.” “What I will say, in order to clarify the shocking recklessness of this signal conversation, is that Higseth Post included operational details about the coming strikes on Yemen, including information about the goals, the weapons that the United States will spread, and the attack sequence.”

The news of the legislators shock in Washington. Representative Bramela Javal described D-Lash. , “Amazing” “amazing” officials in a social media post. Senator Chris Konz, De Del.

“Each of the government officials in this text series has now committed a crime,” Konz wrote. “We cannot trust anyone in this dangerous administration to maintain the safety of Americans.”

Senator Mark Warner, D-F. He said The administration was “playing quickly and loosely with the most classified information in our nation” and disrupted Trump officials in a series of publications to X.

“Do not make mistakes: our allies read the story of disclosure of the war plan as well, and it makes it less likely that they will want to share the sensitive Intel with us,” he wrote.