Good morning. A major security leak is triggering bipartisan outrage after the Atlantic revealed that senior Trump administration officials accidentally broadcast highly sensitive military plans through a Signal group chat with a journalist reading along. According to the Atlantic, the editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally invited into a Signal chat group with more than a dozen senior Trump administration officials, including Vice-President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The group discussed secret military plans for recent US attacks on the Houthi armed group in Yemen. The leak has shocked people across the political spectrum, with the minority Democratic leader Chuck Schumer calling it one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence he has read about in a very, very long time. He urged Republicans to seek a full investigation. What did Hegseth say? On Monday, Hegseth said that “nobody was texting war plans” and attacked Goldberg as “deceitful and highly discredited” without refuting any specifics from the Atlantic story.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/first-thing-white-house-texts-secret-yemen-airstrike-plans-to-reporter