by Brian Shilhavy, Health Impact News:
By now I am sure that almost everyone has heard about “Signal-Gate”, where a confidential chat session was held by Trump officials on the Signal app, just before bombing Yemen.
The editor of The Atlantic publication, Jeffrey Goldberg, was allegedly asked to join the chat “inadvertently” by National Security Advisor Michael Waltz.
Goldberg published an article about the chat, claiming that classified information was shared via the app, and that no one even noticed that he was in on the call.
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This prompted the Trump administration to deny what Goldberg published, including Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe, who were grilled for two hours yesterday by the U.S. Senate.
They attacked Goldberg and accused him of lying, so last night Goldberg published the entire thread of the chat to defend himself.
So, about that Signal chat.
On Monday, shortly after we published a story about a massive Trump-administration security breach, a reporter asked the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, why he had shared plans about a forthcoming attack on Yemen on the Signal messaging app.
He answered, “Nobody was texting war plans. And that’s all I have to say about that.”
At a Senate hearing yesterday, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe, were both asked about the Signal chat, to which Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, was inadvertently invited by National Security Adviser Michael Waltz.
“There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal group,” Gabbard told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Ratcliffe said much the same:
“My communications, to be clear, in the Signal message group were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information.”
President Donald Trump, asked yesterday afternoon about the same matter, said,
“It wasn’t classified information.”
The statements by Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, and Trump—combined with the assertions made by numerous administration officials that we are lying about the content of the Signal texts—have led us to believe that people should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.
There is a clear public interest in disclosing the sort of information that Trump advisers included in nonsecure communications channels, especially because senior administration figures are attempting to downplay the significance of the messages that were shared. (Source.)
Today, the Trump administration is buckling down and sticking to their story, even with the publication of the actual chat thread.
I have annotated Karoline Leavitt’s White House Press Briefing statements from earlier today, to just the questions she addressed regarding this Signal chat.
But before you listen to her scripted response, first read the entire Signal chat thread published by Jeffrey Goldberg for yourself, as I have made it available to Health Impact News readers:
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