A scandal broke out in the White House due to the correspondence about the bombing of Yemen

A stunning event happened in Washington – The Atlantic reported that its editor -in -chief accidentally ended up in a chat, where the US highest ranks discussed top secret information about the planning of the military operation in Yemen. In response, US Secretary of Defense Pit Hegset said that no one in the Donald Trump administration “did not send text messages with war plans”, although earlier the representative of the White House managed to confirm the authenticity of the correspondence disclosed by the journalist. Congress intends to begin his investigation of what happened, and the presidential adviser to national security, Mike Walz, who made a mistake with the addition of a journalist to the chat, risks losing his position due to the scandal. With details – Kommersant correspondent in the USA Ekaterina Moore.

The scandal erupted on Monday, March 24, after the revelations of the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg that he became an involuntary participant in the planning of attacks on the rebels in the Husths in Yemen with the highest ranks of the administration of Donald Trump.

According to Mr. Goldberg, it all started with the fact that on March 11, a user named Mike Walz (recall that this is the name of Donald Trump’s adviser to the National Security) sent him a request for a connection in the Signal messenger. A couple of days later, the journalist received a notification that he was included in a chat called “Houth PC Small Group” – “Husita PC (management committee. – « Kommersant ») a small group.  » This group also included people with the names of Vice President Jay Di Wans, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Intelligence Director Tulsey Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe.

At first, Jeffrey Goldberg was extremely skeptical about the authenticity of the group: “I could not believe that the leadership of the National Security of the United States would report on Signal about the plans of the imminent war.”

But further events convinced him that this is not a draw.

“The world recognized shortly before 14:00 east of March 15, that the United States Attack the targets of the Husites All Yemen. However, I knew in two hours that the attack could be before the first bombs exploded. The reason I knew this was that Pete Highs, the Minister of Defense, sent me a message with the war plan at 11:44 in the morning. The plan included accurate information about the type of weapon, goals and time, ”the journalist said.

We are talking about the large -scale operation announced on March 15, a large -scale operation to « protect American interests, contain enemies and restore freedom of shipping. » On this day, the US Air Force inflicted 47 beats throughout Yemen. At least 50 people were reported about the death of at least 50 people, the Hussites promised a decisive answer.

In confirmation of his words, the journalist provided the article with screenshots of correspondence, in which the participants exchanged not only information on the operation, but also the encouraging emoji, for example, the badge of “fist”, “fire” and the American flag.

Summing up, Mr. Goldberg was outraged by both the presidential adviser himself in national security, and the fact that officials exchanged such sensitive information in the Signal messenger (by the way, belonging to Ilon Mask), putting in jeopardy of American military personnel.

At the same time, the press secretary of the US National Security Council Brian Hughes confirmed ABC News Authenticity of correspondence.

“Apparently, this is a genuine chain of messages, and we study how your number was accidentally added to it,” he said.

But one of the participants in the correspondence, the head of the Pentagon Pit Hegset, on the contrary, said that no one in the US presidential administration Donald Trump “was sending text messages with war plans” in the Signal messenger. And the US president himself, answering a question about the press about Scandalous publication The Atlanticlimited himself to Remarus that he “knows nothing” about her and that the magazine “no one reads”.

But it was not possible to hush up the scandal with brief refutations. Even the Republicans in Congress expressed concern about what happened, calling the incident “shameful” and “unthinkable”, although they refrained from the requirements to take any measures regarding the officials involved in this, writes The Hill.

“We are very concerned and will study this issue on a two -party basis,” said Roger Wizker, chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, adding that the commission “definitely” plans to investigate the situation.

The leader of the democratic minority in the House of Hakim Jeffris also called on Congress to conduct an investigation against senior officials of the administration. “Congress must conduct an investigation so that we can understand what happened, why this happened and how we can prevent a repetition of such a violation of national security,” the legislator told reporters, adding that the incident “recklessly, irresponsibly and dangerous”.

According to Politico, if the administration of Trump to the public depicted a completely calm attitude towards what happened, then behind closed doors the incident caused a “stormy discussion”, which, not excluded, will be resigned by Mike Walz. “Nothing has been decided so far,” the publication noted, “and the White House officials explained that President Donald Trump would ultimately decide over the next day or two, observing the coverage of an awkward episode.”