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Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic, was apparently included in a Trump administration group chat on Signal in which top officials debated and then discussed details of attacks against Houthi rebels in Yemen.

In the stunning report, Goldberg claimed Waltz connected with him on Signal on March 11 and, two days later, he was invited to join a chain called the “Houthi PC small group,” in which they discussed strikes against the Houthi militant group in Yemen — seemingly unaware of the journalist’s presence in the group.

He wrote that he initially had strong doubts the text group was real, “because I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans.”

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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 70 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Amateurs. They should have created a subreddit.

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's the only way really

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ggppjj@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Telegram. Too on the nose?

[–] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 47 points 1 day ago
[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

Color me suprised that it wasn't the War Thunder forum this time...

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Just another example of politicians having no idea how technology and security work. Not only that, but willfully disregarding warnings from experts.

[–] habitualTartare@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Those rules are for idiots and I'm not an idiot so it couldn't possibly apply to me. I'll just be careful.

/s

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This seams like a reasonable explanation of what the hell they are thinking.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

It's like they think that's their whole job, disregarding warnings from experts.

Consequences are for commoners LMAO send.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago

It's really strange to read that transcript, a glimpse behind the veil so to say.

I continually make the mistake of just assuming that there's intelligent sophisticated professionals behind the scenes propping up the idiots that we see front and center. There really isn't though. They're talking about global politics the way soccer mums would organise the season break up.

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

If this happened in any other country people consider this an intentional leak to the media, because any other explanation would be delusional.

[–] username_no_1@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

Good God. Morons