A conversation between the US Secretary of Defense. who is head of newspaper of the newspaper The Atlantic, Based in Washington.
Fatal error woke up The controversy about national security and the carelessness of government officials.
Goldberg explained Monday in an article that Michael Waltz, security advisor, I had brought it to the signal application chat, “A commercial messaging application”, according to a publication of The New York Times.
Thanks to this, the journalist could follow the conversation of the officials long before the plans were carried out.
“Not only was the journalist in the group included inadvertently, but the conversation was made outside the government safe channels that would normally be used for war planning Classified and highly sensitive, “says the Times.
What contained the conversation?
The journalist revealed that the encrypted message contained Information about next US attacks and detailed from the operational plans to the objectives, weapons and the sequence of the offensive.
The specific objectives were the hutís, who have perpetrated attacks against US interests. The same White House confirmed the latest plans in the The Atlantic.
“Goldberg said he could follow the conversation between high positions of President Trump’s national security team in the two days prior to attacks in Yemen. The group also included vice president JD Vance and Secretary of State, Marco Rubio “, He consigned Times
What implications does the filtration have?
According to experts, cited by the Times, It was an “exceptional violation of national security intelligence”, Because the conversation took off official channels or of safe means that are normally used to treat plans of this type.
Besides, this could have put at risk the operation, and therefore, to military personnel that would carry out the mission in a territory under the power of hostile militias in Yemen, a country without government.
He Times He cites other Trump officials who said “to maintain this type of conversation in a chat group of Signal could constitute in itself a violation of the espionage law, that regulates the management of sensitive information. ”
What does the government say about it?
According to the agency AFP, US President Donald Trump, He fell importance on Tuesday to the filtration of bombardment plans and supported his national security advisor Faced with accusations of incompetence.
The president added that it is “the only ruling” they have had in two months, but that it was “not serious.” He said his official “learned the lesson.”
Trump, far from admitting the severity of carelessness, labeled the head of writing of The Atlantic “depraved” for having informed of the event.
Meanwhile, Steven Cheung, Communications Director of the White House, said: “Anti-Trump forces try to instrumentalize harmless acts and turn them into false scandals. Do not allow the enemies of the United States to go out with these with these lies “, He warned, cited by AFP