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The Trump administration planned Yemen strikes in an unauthorized Signal chat


The Trump administration's national security leaders accidentally included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, in a chat on Signal

The Trump administration’s national security leaders accidentally included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, in a chat on Signal discussing confidential plans to attack Yemen’s Houthis. Signal and other commercial tech platforms are not authorized for sharing sensitive information among government officials. Goldberg first thought that he was being mislead by bad actors trying to plant a false story in the Atlantic.

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