Congress irate over ‘astonishing’ national security breach

Published March 24, 2025 8:12pm ET



Congressional representatives are up in arms after a reporter was added to a group chat in which Trump administration officials were discussing sensitive national security matters.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, national security adviser Mike Waltz, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard were all present in the chat on the app Signal. Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, said he was added by Waltz to the chat accidentally. Goldberg was present when the group discussed sensitive war plans against the Houthis, which the editor revealed in an explosive article on Monday.

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