There are a few of the most sensitive and risky US presidential measures, than when and where the American military force is used.
If such information is obtained by American opponents in advance, lives – and national foreign policy goals – are at risk.
Fortunately for the Trump administration, there was no group chat with information about an imminent strike in Yemen between senior national security officials in the indication of the application of encrypted chat in the wrong hands.
Unfortunately for the Trump administration, the messaging interconnection index was observed by an influential political journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg.
The editor -in -chief of Atlantic Magazine Magazine, in an article published on Monday on his website, says he appears to have been inadvertently added to the chat carried out by the White House National Security Adviser Michael Michael.
The group members seem to include Vice President JD Vance, CIA director John Ratcliffe, White House Chief of Staff Suzy Wales and Defense Minister Beit Higseth, among others.
“It seems authentic,” the BBC's National Security Council spokesman said.
Goldberg says that the group discussed the policy and discussed the operational details about the imminent American military strike-conversations that provided a rare look at the near time of the internal actions of the Trump's national security team.
“Amazing job”, Waltz wrote to the group, just minutes after the American strikes on Houthi goals in Yemen on Saturday, March 15th.
Continue with the emoji of the US flag, fist and fire. Other senior officials joined our congratulations.
These White House celebrations may be short -term after Monday.
It is that an unintentionally strange person to the sensitive National Defense talks will be added to an amazing failure of operating security by the Trump administration.
And that these talks were taking place outside the safe government channels designed for such sensitive communications that could violate the spy law, which defines rules for dealing with classified information.
“This administration plays quickly and loose with the most classified information in our nation, and it makes all Americans less safe,” Senator Mark Warner from Virginia, Democrats of the Senate Intelligence Committee, posted on X.
A member of the Democratic Congress Chris Delosio said in a press statement that the Armed Services Committee in the House of Representatives, on which he is sitting, must be completely investigated in this matter as soon as possible.
“This violates the obscene national security, and the heads must be rolled,” he said.
Criticism was not limited to the Democrats either.
Don Bacon, a member of the Republican Congress from Nebraska, told Axios that the administration's work is “unreasonable.”
“None of this should have been sent on unsafe systems,” he said. “Russia and China are definitely monitoring its unprofitable phone.”
With the control of Republicans in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, Trump will have to start any kind of official congress investigations into the matter.
The Republican spokesman in House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, had reduced this possibility because he told reporters that the White House had confessed his mistake.
“They will stress and make sure it does not happen again,” he said. “I don't know what you can say about it.”
Trump, for his part, defended ignorance when journalists at the Oval Office asked him about the story of the Atlantic Ocean, saying he was the first thing he heard about.
Then the White House issued a statement defending the president's national security team, including Waltz.
However, by Monday evening, rumors in Washington were about the high -level resignations that may be ultimately necessary, focusing on interest on Waltz, which brought its Goldberg invitation to the group conversation. The White House did not make any other comments even with the growth of these speculation.
In his statement in the afternoon, the White House indicated that the strikes were “very successful and effective. This can help reduce some political repercussions from the chat group discussions, which also revealed some divisions within Trump's national security team.
JD Vance was the highest participant in the set of texts that discussed detailed plans on the American military strike on Yemen.
While the vice president usually walked in Luxetep with Trump in his general comments on foreign policy, in private discussions he said he believed the administration was making a “mistake” by taking military measures.
He pointed out that the Houthi forces targeted in Yemen pose a greater threat to European shipping, while the danger to American trade was small.
“I am not sure that the president realizes how consistently this is with his message to Europe at the present time,” Vans wrote. “There is another danger to see a moderate rise to severe oil prices.”
The vice president went on to say that he will support what the team decided and “maintains these concerns for myself.”
“But there is a strong argument for delaying this month, and doing the correspondence about the reason for the importance of this, knowing the location of the economy, etc.”
This is the first time that the vice president with their president has differed in foreign policy matters.
Dick Cheney has clashed with George W. Bush in recent years of his presidency due to dealing with the Iraq war, and Joe Biden believed that Barack Obama's secret operation to kill Osama bin Laden was risky.
This is not the first time that dealing with sensitive national security materials has been born with newspaper addresses. Trump and Joe Biden were investigated to possess secret information after leaving the position. Special Counselor Jacques Smith Trump charged the alleged violations of his refusal to hand over the materials stored at his residence in Mar Lago-a case that decreased when Trump won his re-election last year.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton's use of a special email server became a major issue during her unpleasant presidential campaign.
Like this White House group chat, some of these messages presented an insight into the interior of the Clinton team.
Revelation also proved that it is political harmful. A handful of its stored messages later be considered to contain “higher secret” information.
“We cannot have someone in the oval office who does not understand the meaning of the secret or classified word,” Trump said during this campaign.
On Monday afternoon, Clinton moved to social media to post her brief comment on the disclosure of the White House group group on Signal.
“You must joke with me,” she wrote.
