What the Signal chat leak reveals about Trump’s Middle East policy
Washington is reeling from an unprecedented leak of the military’s operational plans to strike Yemen’s Houthis, which were shared on a Signal group chat that included a high-profile journalist.
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WASHINGTON — Calls are growing louder for members of Donald Trump's national security team to resign after The Atlantic published a leaked group chat from the messaging app Signal, in which top officials discussed details of upcoming US airstrikes in Yemen.
Scrutiny on Capitol Hill shifted over the course of the week from Trump’s national security adviser, Mike Waltz — who, according to The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, had unknowingly granted him access to the chat — to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Meanwhile, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, seated alongside CIA Director John Ratcliffe, testified under oath to Senate lawmakers this week that no classified information had been shared in the leaked chat.
