President Donald Trump took relevance of the serious filtration of confidential information from the Pentagon who unleashed a scandal in the US Hutie “Nobody cares about a cumin” This story, he added about the article of The Atlantic magazine, of which Goldberg is a chief editor.
He added that his national security advisor, Michael Waltz, whose signal was the source of filtration, He has “learned the lesson.”
The whole government went out to dissolve the scandal. The White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said that Anti-Trump forces try to instrumentalize harmless acts and turn them into false scandals (…). Do not allow the United States enemies to leave with these with these lies, ”he wrote on the social network X.
“No classified information was shared,” said National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard, being bombarded by questions by Democratic congressmen during a Senate Hearing for a long time.
The filtered dialogue is however very embarrassing for the White House. There are relevant officials who appear in the chat, among them the head of the Pentagon who exposes a very marked contempt for Europe and argue that they should pay the US for the attacks on Yemen aimed at releasing the transit of merchant ships through Tuesdays under the target of the Huties rebels.
The head of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, acknowledged having participated in the messages about the preparations for air attacks Against the Houthi rebels, which finally took place on March 15.
Defended what he called The “authorized and legal” use of the private application for these exchanges between vice president JD Vance, the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, and the head of the Marco Rubio diplomacy, among others.
The Democrats, quite warm so far in their opposition role, attacked the government. Senator Mark Warner criticized the “negligent, reckless and incompetent attitude” of Trump’s lieutenants.
The journalist Goldberg claims to have seen a detailed attack plan, with information on the objectives and progress of the operation, which did not reveal in his article published on Monday, in order to protect national security.
On this subject Trump said Tuesday that Europeans “have been taking advantage” And “the European Union has been absolutely terrible” with the United States, an insistent speech after having repeatedly called “atrocious initiative” to the European Union, a contempt that shares with the Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin.
The leader of the Democratic minority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, condemned “one of the most amazing (security failures) in a long, long time.”
His co -religionists of the Committees of the House of Representatives sent a letter to four White House officials that The Atlantic identified as potentially in the Chat of Signal, asking for answers about shared information.
“We are especially concerned that the reported deliberations may have constituted a safety violation, because they were based on an electronic messaging application that is not approved as a safe method to communicate classified information and because they inadvertently included at least a non -governmental part,” says the letter, addressed to Minister Hegseth, to the national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard, to the framework frame frame frame and the Advisor. National Security Waltz.
Legislators asked Trump and officials to share other cases in which confidential information could be exchanged using Signal andqUé measures is taking the White House to ensure that this does not happen again.
The founder of Signal, a messaging service appreciated by journalists for his confidentiality, praised his product in X irony.
“There are many good reasons to be in Signal. One of them is now the possibility that the United States vice president includes randomly in a group discussion about the coordination of delicate military operations.”