PNN – Leaders of the US Senate Armed Services Committee have called for an investigation into the security scandal involving national security officials and the disclosure of details of the attack on Yemen on the Signal messenger.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, CNN, a news network affiliated with Democrats and an opponent of Republican President Donald Trump, reported on Thursday local time: Roger Wicker, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a Republican from Mississippi, and Democrat Jack Reed, in a letter to the acting inspector general of the US Department of Defense, called for an investigation and assessment of the Signal Messenger incident.
The two officials wrote to Acting Inspector General Steven Stebbins: If this report is true, it raises questions about using public networks to discuss sensitive and confidential information, as well as sharing this information with those who do not have the necessary authorization and need to know.
Wicker declined to say whether his committee was conducting a full investigation into the Signal controversy, saying, “We are conducting fact-finding and oversight processes on it.”
US Defense Secretary Pete Hexath has announced that: The Atlantic magazine, which published the Signal Group messages, has changed the phrase “war programs” to “offensive programs.”
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The US Secretary of Defense clarified: We did not share any classified information in the Signals program conversation. We did not share any plans for war, and the Atlantic magazine changed the phrase war plans to offensive plans.
Jeffrey Goldberg, a veteran American journalist and editor of The Atlantic, announced that the National Security Council of the Donald Trump administration mistakenly added him to a confidential group chat on the Signal messenger, shared information with him about airstrikes on Houthi (Ansarullah) positions in Yemen, and learned about conversations between senior American officials about attacks on Yemen.
A day after the US government’s security scandal and the disclosure of details of its attack on Yemen on the Signal messenger, with the addition of the editor of the Atlantic magazine to the group, which included Trump administration security officials, the Senate Intelligence Committee questioned intelligence officials.
Officials in the group discussed the need for strikes on Yemen and the Trump administration’s justifications for them. Goldberg, who followed the conversation via the Signal app, wrote: I’m surprised that no one in the group noticed my presence.
The Atlantic editor went on to say that he had voluntarily withheld some of the information in Hegsett’s lengthy letter, saying that its contents “could be used by enemies of the United States to harm American forces and intelligence personnel.”
President Donald Trump told NBC News on Tuesday that he still had confidence in his national security adviser, Mike Waltz. When asked if he was upset that the Atlantic story was getting attention, Trump said no, calling it “just a technical glitch in the last two months” and not a serious problem.
The United States has launched massive airstrikes against Houthi (Ansarullah) positions in Yemeni provinces since March 15.