All posts tagged "Signal"

The Pentagon's watchdog review found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "risked endangering troops" when he used Signal to share war plans, according to reports Wednesday.

The report is still classified and has not been publicly released. The inspector general for the Pentagon did conclude that Hegseth "risked compromising sensitive information," according to an exclusive CNN report.

The inspector general has been investigating Hegseth's use of Signal since April and has concluded he should not have used this to communicate specific war plans and the impact could have been "dire," CNN reported. ...

Sen. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) came down hard on witnesses testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday who still refused to call the information leaked through a Signal group chat "classified."

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and director of the National Security Agency Timothy Haugh answered the Senate's questions Wednesday, a day after the House Intelligence Committee demanded answers.

Ever since The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published his story about the sensitive "war plans" detailing a bombing run on Yemen that he witnessed after being mysteriously added to the group chat, the Trump administration and GOP lawmakers have maintained that the information was not classified and that Goldberg was perpetuating a "hoax." ...

A Trump official's account on the Signal messaging app has been tagged as the one that added a journalist to a highly sensitive war plans chat involving the bombing of Houthi rebels in Yemen, according to CNN's Jeff Zeleny.

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, wrote in a shocking article of his inadvertent inclusion in a Signal messaging chat revealing war plans about an imminent strike on Yemen. Goldberg wrote that he believed top officials on the chat included National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Director of National Security Tulsi Gabbard.

"Mike Waltz, who's the security advisor, is the one who apparently added Jeffrey Goldberg onto the thread, or someone using the Mike Waltz account," Zeleny reported Monday from the White House. "That is certainly going to be something for him to respond and answer to." ...

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta vehemently asserted Monday that the person who created the Signal chat revealing war plans about an attack on Houthi terrorists to a journalist with The Atlantic should be fired.

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, wrote in a stunning article of his inadvertent inclusion in a Signal messaging chat revealing war plans about an imminent strike on Yemen. Goldberg wrote that he believed top officials on the chat included National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Vice President J.D. Vance, among others.

At first, Goldberg thought the messaging chain was fake, but Panetta, who served in several Democratic administrations including as Defense Secretay under President Barack Obama, told CNN, "there's no question this is legitimate." ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - The Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera said on Friday its signal was being jammed on several frequencies and its website had been blocked in Libya.

DUBAI (Reuters) - The Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera said on Friday its signal was being jammed on several frequencies and its website had been blocked in Libya.