Umair5 U.S. Voters Weigh In on the Signal Leak
The White House has spent the week trying to downplay the revelation that top national security officials discussed plans for U.S. strikes in Yemen on Houthi militants over Signal, a…
Visiting Greenland, Vance Finds the Weather and the Reception Chilly
President Trump has been less than subtle in his insistence that the United States will “get” Greenland one way or another, reiterating on Friday that the United States cannot “live…
Signal Leak Shows Trump Only Takes Federal Secrets Seriously When It Suits Him
As far as the Trump administration is concerned, there are government secrets and then there are government secrets. Details sought by a federal court about a military flight of immigrants…
Judge Orders Signal Chat on Houthi Attack Plans to Be Preserved
A federal judge in Washington on Thursday ordered several Trump administration officials who participated in a Signal group chat discussing the details of a pending attack in Yemen to preserve…
Another Problem With That Signal Chat? The Messages Disappear.
The Signal group chat that senior Trump administration officials convened to discuss military strikes in Yemen has sparked outrage over the reckless way a journalist was mistakenly added to the…
The Signal Leak Has Little Precedent
Defense secretaries usually take a hard line when it comes to the disclosure of classified information on their watch. During the George W. Bush administration, Donald H. Rumsfeld said that…
Trump Administration Deflects Blame for Leak at Every Turn
It was a hoax. The information wasn’t classified. Somehow the journalist got “sucked into” the Signal chat, either deliberately or through some kind of technical glitch. In the days since…
Marco Rubio Says Someone in Signal Chat Made ‘Big Mistake’ in Adding Journalist
Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed on Wednesday that he took part in the group chat on the Signal app earlier this month among top United States officials ahead of…
Did Trump’s Team Share Classified Information in the Leaked Signal Chat?
“This is when the first bombs will definitely drop,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth texted a group of senior Trump administration officials, telling them the precise time of military flights that…
How the White House Uses Semantics to Downplay the Signal Leak
The White House effort to defend Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday leaned heavily into a semantic argument. What he posted on the now-infamous Signal chat with his national security…
