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Posted on Mar 26, 2025 / Politics / USA

The scandal continues in the US over the chat where Trump advisers announced strikes on Yemen and called Europe "pathetic".

On March 13, The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly added to a Signal chat where U.S. government officials were coordinating a military operation against the Yemeni Houthis, who were attacking merchant ships and warships (including American ones) in the Middle East. During the discussion of the operation, Vice President J.D. Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke disdainfully of the Europeans. And just before it began, Hegseth posted a detailed plan for attacking the Houthis in the chat. Jeffrey Goldberg wrote about all of this in his article in The Atlantic, which was published on March 24. It caused a scandal in the United States. We wrote about the article and its initial consequences in detail yesterday. Now we'll tell you what happened next.

Trump's National Security Advisor Mike Walz Claims Responsibility for the Leak

It was Walz who added Jeffrey Goldberg to the Trump team's chat dedicated to the operation against the Houthis. When Goldberg left the chat, Walz, as the creator of the chat, should have received an automatic notification about it. But even after that, he did not ask himself who JD (Goldberg's nickname) was, why this person was in the chat and why he suddenly left it. At least, no one asked Goldberg about it himself.

"I take full responsibility. I created this group. It's a disgrace. We will find out what happened," Walz told Fox News reporters.

Donald Trump previously said that he would not fire Walz. According to the US president, his adviser received the number of the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic from a subordinate and did not assume that he was inviting a journalist to the chat. In an interview with Fox News, Walz did not shift responsibility to his team, repeating that he takes full responsibility for it. He also hinted that Goldberg may have gotten into the chat by deception. The investigation into what happened involves "the best tech minds," including Elon Musk, Walz added.

Senate Democrats Slam Intelligence Chiefs Who Were in Chat

On March 25, five top U.S. intelligence officials — including Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe — attended a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. The hearing is an annual event where invited officials are expected to speak about major national security threats. Instead, it turned into an interrogation of Gabbard and Ratcliffe, who were participants in the chat.

The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner, called the incident another example of “careless, reckless, incompetent behavior” by Trump administration officials. “If this was a military officer or an intelligence officer, they would have been fired,” Warner said.

Senator Jon Ossoff said the attack plan posted in the chat could have allowed the Houthis, if they had known about it, to attack U.S. warplanes in Yemen. And Senator Michael Bennet drew attention to the fact that the president's special envoy Steve Witkoff participated in the chat while in Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin. "Did you know about this? This carelessness, this incompetence, this disrespect for our intelligence services is completely unacceptable," Bennett fumed. Gabbard and Ratcliffe answered questions evasively. Gabbard initially claimed that there was no classified information in the chat. In response, Senator Warner repeatedly asked her to make the contents of the chat public. Then Gabbard clarified that she personally did not send classified information to the chat, and suggested that the question of whether the plan to attack the Houthis, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted, was classified be addressed to him personally (Hegseth was not at the hearing).

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