Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots

The intelligence breach was bad enough, current and former fighter pilots said. But Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s refusal to acknowledge that he should not have disclosed sensitive information about when…

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…

Signal Leak Puts Mike Waltz, Trump’s National Security Adviser, in Hot Seat

Despite President Trump’s insistence on Tuesday morning that his national security adviser, Michael Waltz, “has learned a lesson” after inadvertently including the editor of The Atlantic in a cabinet-level chat…

After Signal Leak, Vance Focuses on Proving His Loyalty to Trump

Vice President JD Vance’s team sought to immediately contain the fallout over a report showing that Mr. Vance and several top national security officials had inadvertently discussed details of a…

Trump Downplays Signal Leak, Backing Waltz and Pointing Finger at Journalist

President Trump characterized an extraordinary security breach as a minor transgression on Tuesday, insisting that top administration officials had not shared any classified information as they discussed secret military plans…

What Is Signal, the App Involved in a War Plans Security Breach?

Signal, a popular messaging app, came into the spotlight this week following reports that several senior Trump administration officials had used the tool to conduct war planning — inadvertently including…

White House Claims Signal Chat Did Not Include War Plans

The White House on Tuesday brushed off the seriousness of mistakenly adding a journalist to a group chat with senior national security officials in which they discussed details of a…

Trump Administration Deals With Signal Group Chat Leak Fallout: What to Know

The Trump administration is dealing with the fallout of an extraordinary leak of internal national security deliberations, disclosed in an encrypted group chat that mistakenly included a journalist from The…

Hegseth Disclosed Secret War Plans in a Group Chat

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed war plans in an encrypted chat group that included a journalist two hours before U.S. troops launched attacks against the Houthi militia in Yemen, the…