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Fallout from Leaked Signal Chat Intensifies

2025/3/27
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This chapter explores the details of the Signal chat leak where senior Trump administration officials shared sensitive attack plans on an unsecured app, accidentally including a journalist.
  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared U.S. attack plans in a Signal chat.
  • The chat included detailed timing and weaponry information for an attack on Yemen.
  • The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently added to this group chat.
  • The Trump administration downplayed the seriousness of the leak.

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We take a deep look at the fallout from what national security experts are calling one of the most extraordinary intelligence lapses in U.S. history. On Monday Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported that he’d been mistakenly included on an unsecured group chat with senior national security officials as they disclosed plans to attack Yemen. The Atlantic published more of the exchange on Wednesday, while the Trump administration downplayed the blunder and top intelligence officials testified before the House lawmakers. We discuss the national security implications with reporters Eric Schmitt and Garrett Graff.

Guests:

**Eric Schmitt, **senior national security correspondent, New York Times

**Garrett Graff, **journalist and historian

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