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ICE Accidentally Adds Wrong Person to Sensitive Group Chat


The reported blunder echoes the Trump administration’s infamous Signalgate fiasco.

The blunder echoes the infamous Signal chat fiasco, in which a journalist was inadvertently included in a text chain where top members of the Trump administration discussed impending air strikes in Yemen. In what became known as “Signalgate,” Trump cabinet members, including Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, discussed classified attack plans for airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen on a Signal chat. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, who had inadvertently added The Atlantic ’s Jeffrey Goldberg to the chat, became the fall guy and was ultimately ousted from his post by Trump.

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