Trump government discussed Yemen attack plans in Signal-Chat and incorrectly added journalist-DiePresse.com
High officials from the Trump government may have been responsible for an unprecedented security gap. They discussed attack plans in a chat, a journalist read all the time.
It is a story that you don’t read every day: High officials from the government of US President Donald Trump may have been responsible for an unprecedented vulnerability. How to discuss plans for one Attack on the Huthi militia in Yemen, which started a week agoapparently in a chat on the platform signal and not on an official, safe channels. But that’s not all: You may have mistakenly added a journalist to the chat who lies all the time.
The US magazine « The Atlantic » reports on Monday. The journalist in question is the editor -in -chief of the magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg. In the text with the title: « The Trump administration accidentally sent me its war plans via SMS, » he describes the events. Accordingly, he thought for a long time that it was a deliberately created fake group to mislead him.
But in fact the group turned out to be real, which was later confirmed by the government side. She was from Donald Trump’s national security advisor Michael Waltz created. Numerous other senior civil servants were also included in the chat group, including from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defense and the Secret Services. In the group, they discussed the best time for the attack on the Huthi militia.
Goldberg writes, for example, in the text: « I waited in my car in a supermarket car park. If this signal chat was real, I thought, Huthi goals would soon be bombarded. Around 1:55 a.m. I checked » X « and searched for Yemen. Then there were explosions in all of Sanaa, the capital. «
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>> To the report of « The Atlantic »
