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It's hard for me to believe that targets and timing and weapons would not have been classified."
Independent Maine Senator Angus King told the two
The risk of discussing highly sensitive national security information on Signal isn't so much that Signal itself is insecure. It's the fact that nation states threat actors have a demonstrated ability to remotely compromise the entire mobile phone itself. If the phone itself isn't secure, all the Signal messages on that device can be read."
Though experts ... he adds
My colleagues and I and the people who are giving us advice on this have some interesting conversations to have about this,
Goldberg told the podcast
At moments like this, when they're under pressure because they've been caught with their hand in the cookie jar or whatever, you know, they will just literally say anything to get out of the moment,
Goldberg said
You're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again,
Hegseth saidIt couldn't have been very effective, because the attack was very effective
When pressed about the Signal chat, Trump saidAs much as I enjoy national security investigative reporting, I don't need strike plans two hours before a launch
he addedI think messaging is going to be tough no matter what – nobody knows who the Houthis are.”
In one of the texts Hegseth said to Vice President JD Vance
At every turn anti-Trump forces have tried to weaponize innocuous actions and turn them into faux outrage
it quoted White House Communications Director Steven Cheung as sayingIt's also just mind-boggling to me that all of these senior folks were on this line, and nobody bothered to even check security hygiene 101,
the senator remarked
The fact that Fox News is in possession of these messages demonstrates exactly why Signal shouldn’t be used to discuss classified national security material like war plans."
Warner spokesperson Rachel Cohen told Fox News DigitalChris Steele asked me to call you."
Waldman texted Warner, writingSignal worked great for Senator Warner when he wanted to meet with the disgraced liar Christopher Steele. It’s a little surprising Warner is pretending to be so upset about it today,
a Senate GOP leadership aide told Fox News Digital in a statementYes seems to have cold feet from the leaks. Said he wanted a bipartisan letter followed by written questions."
However, ... when Warner asked for an update on contact with Steele in April, the lobbyist saidThe Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans."
Afterward, Goldberg reported his experience in an articleCan you talk tomorrow want to get with ur English friend,
Warner said in one messageI think this is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior, particularly towards classified information, that this is not a one-off or a first-time error,
he added, criticizing the administrationNo ‘war plans’ were discussed,
she said, quoting the title of his article
Two of our witnesses here today were members of a group chat that discussed highly sensitive and likely classified information that supposedly even included weapons packages, targets and timing and included the name of an active CIA agent,
Warner said, referring to CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi GabbardMichael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he's a good man,
Trump told the outlet