Chat app on Trump’s team leakage in Washington

There is little US presidential actions more sensitive, richer the dangers than when and where US military forces use.

If such information was received in advance by US opponents, it can set life – and national foreign policy tasks are under threat.

Fortunately for the Trump administration, a group chat with information about the upcoming strike in Yemen among high -ranking national security officials on the encrypted chat application did not fall into someone else’s hands.

Unfortunately for the Trump administration, the topic was observed by the influential political journalist Jeffrey Goldberg.

The editor -in -chief of Atlantic magazine, in an article posted on Monday on the site of his edition, says he seems to be inadvertently added to the Chat of the White House National Security Advisor Michael Waltz.

The group members seemed to include JD Vance Vice President, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Chief of Staff of the White House Susi Wils and Defense Minister Pete Hegset, among others.

A representative of the National Security Council told the BBC that the topic of text messages “looks true”.

Goldberg says the group discussed the policy and discussed the operational details about the upcoming US-talking military strike, which gave a rare almost real view of Trump’s older work.

“Amazing work,” Wals wrote in the group, a few minutes after American strikes for Huti’s purposes in Yemen took place on Saturday, March 15.

He followed with emoji flag, fist and fire. Other high -ranking officials joined the congratulations group.

However, these celebrations with the White House may be short -lived after Monday’s opening.

The fact that the outsider can be inadvertently add to the sensitive national defense conversations is a stunning part of Trump’s operative security.

And that these conversations were held under the boundaries of safe state channels intended for such sensitive communications, may violate the espionage law, which establishes rules for processing classified information.

“This administration plays quickly and freely with the most classified information of our country, and it makes all Americans less safe,” Senator Mark Warner from Virginia, the Democrat rating on the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Democratic Congressman Chris Deluzio said in a statement that the Committee on the Armed Services of the House of Representatives, at which he is sitting, should conduct a complete investigation and hearing on the issue as soon as possible.

“This is an outrageous violation of national security, and the executives must ride,” he said.

Criticism was also not limited to Democrats.

Don Bacon, Republican Congressman from Nebraska, said on the Axios political site that the administration’s action was “unreasonable”.

“Nothing should have been sent to systems that are part of it,” he said about Wals’ messaging. “Russia and China are certainly tracking their unspecified phone.”

When the Republicans control both the House of Representatives and the Senate, Trump’s own party was to initiate any official Congress investigations on this issue.

The Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson humiliated the opportunity when he told reporters that the White House recognized his mistake.

“They pull up and make sure it will not happen again,” he said. “I don’t know what else can be said.”

Trump, for his part, asked for ignorance when they were asked in the Oval office about the Atlantic history, saying that it was the first thing he had heard about it.

The White House then released a statement defending the national security team, including waltz.

However, on Monday, however, rumors in Washington swirled that a high level may eventually need resignation, focused on Valka, whose invitation introduced Goldberg into the conversation. The White House did not give additional comments, even if this assumption grew.

In his statement in the afternoon, the White House noted that the strikes were “very successful and effective”. This may minimize some political cases with chat discussions that have also discovered some Trump national security units.

The JD Vance was the most high -ranking participant of the signaling text group discussing detailed plans for the US military strike in Yemen.

While the vice president, as a rule, he followed the step with Trump in his public comments on foreign policy, he said in private discussions that he believed that the administration was making a “mistake” taking hostilities.

He noted that the purposeful forces of Huti in Yemen pose a great threat to European delivery, while the danger to US trade was minimal.

“I’m not sure the president knows how contradictory it is with his message about Europe,” Vnes wrote. “There is another risk that we see a moderate and strong splash of oil prices.”

The vice president continued to say that he would support what the team was decided and “keep these problems to itself.”

“But there is a strong argument to delay this month, making reports on why it matters, seeing where the economy is located, etc.”

This is not the first time the vice president did not agree with his president on foreign policy.

Dick Czeni collided with George Bush in the following years of his presidency over the war in Iraq, and Joe Biden believed that the hidden operation of Barack Obama on the murder of Usama Bin Laden was too risky.

This is also not the first time the processing of sensitive materials of national security has created headlines. Both Trump and Joe Biden were investigated for possession of classified information after leaving the post. Special Lawyer Jack Smith accused Trump of alleged violations related to his refusal to convey the materials stored at his residence of the Mar-a-Legue, which was canceled when Trump won the re-election last year.

In 2016, the use of Hillary Clinton’s private e -mail server, while the US Secretary of State became the main problem during its unsuccessful presidential campaign.

Like this White House chat, some of these messages gave an understanding of the clinton’s internal work.

Their discovery also turned out to be politically harmful. Later, it is believed that several of its stored messages contain “secret” information.

“We cannot have anyone in the oval office that does not understand the meaning of the word confidential or classified,” Trump said during this campaign – one of the many attacks on Clinton for what, he said, was a clear violation of the federal law.

On Monday afternoon, Clinton appealed to social media to post her short commentary before the White House Chat disc.

“You have to joke me,” she wrote.