Trump and intelligence chiefs play the chat leak

US President Donald Trump and intelligence heads reduced a security breach that witnessed a journalist invitation to a group of signs, as he reported the vision of national security officials planning air strikes in Yemen.

The American Director of National Intelligence, Toulcy Gabbard and the director of the CIA, denied in a Senate hearing that any information classified in the series of messages had been shared. Defense Minister Beit Higseth also faced an audit of the messages, although he did not witness.

Democrats in the team reprimanded members of the Council of Ministers as “incompetent” in national security.

At the White House, Trump stood alongside national security adviser Mike Walz, who was in the midst of the leakage.

Revelation has sent shock waves across Washington, which prompted a lawsuit and questions about the reason for high -level officials discussing such sensitive matters about a civilian application that is likely to be weak.

The editor -in -chief of Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg has been added to the 18 -member group, and it appears by chance, and stated that he initially believed it was just a trick.

But he said that he realized that the messages were authentic as soon as the planned raid in Yemen was carried out.

About 53 people were killed in March 15th air strikes, which US officials said the Houthi rebels were aligned in Iran who threatened maritime trade and Israel.

The American raids have since continued, including Tuesday morning.

In addition to Ratcliffe and Gabard, the Al -Insa'a Vice Vice -President Chat included JD Vance and White House Chief of Staff, Suzy Wales.

The controversy over a session on Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee, which was originally supposed to focus on drug gangs and trafficking in people.

During the AT-Timesount session, Ratcliffe said he was not aware of any specific operational information about weapons, targets or timing discussed in the chat, as Goldberg said.

When asked if he believed that the leak was a big mistake, Ratcliffe said: “No.”

“No” classified information “has been revealed and maintained a difference between” unintended version “and” harmful leaks “of information.

Both of them referred to Higseth as the authority if the information is classified. Goldberg reported that many of the most common information in chat came from the account under the name Higseth.

“The Minister of Defense is the original classification body of the Ministry of Defense in determining what can be categorized.”

Democrats on the Senate attacked Gabbard and Ratcliffe.

Michael Bennett of Colorado accused those who participated in the withdrawal conversation, inefficiency and lack of respect for US intelligence agencies.

John Osov described Georgia's episode – which Washington called Signalgate – as “embarrassment”.

“This is completely professional. There was no apology,” Osov said. “There was no recognition of the seriousness of this error.”

The Republicans on the painting were more complete in their fears.

“We have escaped from a bullet,” said Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina.

The Mississippi Republican Roger Wek, who leads the Senate Armed Services Committee, told the correspondents later that legislators would investigate the signal of the sign chat.

Waker told reporters that he wanted to be an investigation from the two parties and the full access committee to the collective chat version.

“We need to know if it is completely realistic, then submit recommendations,” he told the newspaper Newsnation Network. “But I expect we will have management cooperation.”

Republican Jim Rich from Idaho, who leads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he expected to investigate the matter.

“This is an issue that will be investigated, it is clear that we will know a lot about it as the role of facts.”

Trump and his team at the White House threw controversy as a “coordinated effort” to distract the president's achievements.

Throughout the day, Trump jumped the leakage and defended the National Security Adviser, who was said to have confessed Goldberg to collectively chat.

“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, a good man,” Trump told NBC in an interview on the morning phone. He also said that the addition of Goldberg to the group was a “defect” that had no “absolutely effect” from the operational point of view.

The Republican President indicated that he was one of the aides of the Pallis who called the journalist to chat.

“One of the employees had his number there,” Trump, who has long reported from Goldberg to the 2020 elections.

At an event later at the White House, Trump joined the Valus.

“There was no secret information, as I understood it,” the president said. “They used an application, if you want to call it an application, and many people use it, a lot of people to use the government, and many people in the media.”

In his short comments, Waltz took the goal of Goldberg. He said he had no contact with the reporter and accused him of the desire to focus on “more deception”, rather than the success of the Trump administration.

Trump later spoke to newsmax, where he told the conservative network that “someone was on the line with permission, someone was with Mike Waltz, worked with Mike Walz at a lower level, I think, Goldberg's phone number.

Al -Fals approached an apology by Tuesday evening, and told Fox News: “I take full responsibility. The group was built.”

“It is embarrassing. We will reach the bottom.”

When asked if he had identified his employees wrongly, he replied, “The employee was not responsible,” and he repeated that the error was “his full responsibility.”

Waltz also said that he spoke to Elon Musk, who is leading the Ministry of State Efficiency and has described himself as “technical support” of the federal government.

“We got the best artistic minds looking at how this happens,” Folz continued, adding that Goldberg “was not my phone.”

Some national security experts argued that the leak was a major start, and archive experts warned that he had violated the laws on preserving presidential records.

On Tuesday, non -partisan American Group Group filed a lawsuit against individual officials who participated in chatting due to alleged violations of the Federal Records Law and the Law of Administrative Procedures.

The group said that by setting the chat to delete messages automatically, the group violated a law requesting White House officials to submit their records to the national archives.

Last month, the National Security Agency warned of the signal weaknesses, according to the documents obtained by the American BBC CBS.

The reference was released statement On Tuesday, “weaknesses” ignored the correspondence platform.

“The reference is open source, so our code is examined regularly in addition to regular official audits,” the statement said, describing the application “The Golden Standard for Private and safe communications.”

“DASD), former Deputy Assistant Minister of Defense (DASD), told the CIA, told the BBC that sensitive discussions on” uninterrupted commercial application “was” unacceptable “.

“Everyone in that chat knew that,” he added. “You do not need to be a member of the army or the intelligence community to know that this information is exactly what the enemy wants to know.”