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DHS Worker Punished for Including Reporter on Email

Contrast with treatment of the Signal breach shows 'staggering hypocrisy,' former ICE official says

(Newser) - A longtime Department of Homeland Security staffer is facing career-threatening consequences for a mistake that has a lot in common with the Signal breach . Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief of staff Jason Houser and two current DHS officials speaking on condition of anonymity tell NBC News that the worker...

Clinton Has a One-Word Take on Trump Administration

'Dumb,' former secretary of state says of Signal breach, many other moves Team Trump has made

(Newser) - "Dumb" is the operative word in Hillary Clinton's latest op-ed for the New York Times , in which she takes on former rival President Trump and his administration for "a string of self-inflicted wounds" since he took office, including the headline-making Signal breach that DOD chief Pete Hegseth,...

Judge Orders Administration to Preserve Signal Texts

Watchdog group said it feared messages about the Yemen strikes would be automatically deleted

(Newser) - The Trump administration is not to delete the messages exchanged in a Signal text group—which inadvertently included a journalist—leading up to the military strikes in Yemen, a federal judge ordered Thursday. American Oversight, which advocates for government transparency, had said in a filing seeking their preservation that "...

'Attack Plans' Versus 'War Plans'


Legal Angle
Emerges
in Signal
Controversy
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Mar 27, 2025 11:39 AM CDT

Legal Angle Emerges in Signal Controversy

And Trump nemesis Boasberg has been assigned the case

(Newser) - The White House is digging in on the Signal breach controversy, insisting that the information discussed in a text group wasn't as sensitive as critics allege. For proof, press chief Karoline Leavitt noted that a new Atlantic headline refers to "attack plans" instead of "war plans" and...

GOP Senators Join Calls for Probe of Signal Breach

Trump says it's 'all a witch hunt'

(Newser) - Republican Sen. Roger Wicker, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is calling for an inspector general investigation of the Signal breach. After the release Wednesday of the full exchange between top-level officials discussing a strike on Yemen, Wicker said he and Sen. Jack Reed, the panel's top Democrat,...

The Atlantic Releases Group War Texts

Says it now believes public 'should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions'

(Newser) - Two days after revealing that its editor-in-chief was included in a group chat where high-ranking members of the Trump administration discussed plans for strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Atlantic has published those attack plans. As Jeffrey Goldberg, said editor-in-chief, and staff writer Shane Harris write, in the first...

Pentagon Had Warned Against Using Signal

Department repeated the warning last week, saying Russian hackers are targeting the app

(Newser) - Three days after a journalist was accidentally looped into a Signal group chat with top national security officials discussing military strikes in Yemen, the Pentagon warned the app should not be used even to discuss unclassified information. The department-wide advisory dated March 18 warned Signal's use by "common...

Waltz: 'I Take Full Responsibility'
Waltz: 'I Take
Full Responsibility'
Mar 25, 2025 9:34 PM CDT

Waltz: 'I Take Full Responsibility'

But he suggests 'bottom scum' journalist may have caused Signal breach

(Newser) - National security adviser Mike Waltz, who inadvertently added Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a group chat discussing plans for strikes on Yemen, says he takes "full responsibility" for the Signal breach , but he's not sure exactly how it happened. "It's embarrassing. We're going to get...

Gabbard: Nothing in Signal Chat Was Classified

Then turn over the transcripts, demands Democratic Sen. Mark Warner

(Newser) - Two of the nation's top intelligence officials were grilled on Tuesday in the Senate over the gaffe with a Signal group chat on war plans. The big friction pitted Democratic senators against Tulsi Gabbard, director of national intelligence, and CIA chief John Ratcliffe, both of whom participated in the...

4 Key Moments in the Leaked Signal Chat
4 Key Moments in
the Leaked Signal Chat
the rundown
Mar 25, 2025 11:32 AM CDT

4 Key Moments in the Leaked Signal Chat

JD Vance worried president's wish to attack the Houthis was a mistake

(Newser) - Much of the discussion around the bizarre national security texting breach has been focused on how it happened and what, if any, punishments are warranted. But some outlets also are assessing the text conversation itself among high-ranking White House officials discussing a pending military strike. Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic journalist...

Trump Stands By Top Official After Breach

National security adviser Michael Waltz is a 'good man,' says the president

(Newser) - It doesn't appear that any heads will roll on Tuesday after a major security breach came to light on Monday. In an interview with NBC News , President Trump defended national security adviser Michael Waltz, who has been taking flak from the left and right after a journalist was mistakenly...

Fallout Intensifies After Bizarre Text Breach

Question is whether Trump will fire Mike Waltz after a journalist was accidentally looped into war chat

(Newser) - After the extraordinary revelation that a journalist was accidentally looped into a group chat on US war plans, the big question in DC on Tuesday is whether national security adviser Mike Waltz will keep his job, reports Politico . So far, the White House is standing by him publicly after it...

Journalist Was Accidentally Included in War Plan Chat

Democrats call it an 'outrageous national security breach'

(Newser) - In what Democratic lawmakers say was an "outrageous national security breach," the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic was included in a group chat where high-ranking members of the Trump administration discussed plans for strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen . Jeffrey Goldberg says that on March 15, Defense Secretary Pete...

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