by | Mar 26, 2025 | The Guardian
Readers react to the security breach by senior Trump administration figures
You report that White House top dogs described their “loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC” in a group chat on Signal (
). The subject of the chat was secret military plans for US attacks on the Houthis to protect shipping lanes in the Red Sea.
In early 2014, Victoria Nuland (then Barack Obama’s assistant secretary of state) was heard saying “
” to Geoffrey Pyatt (the US ambassador to Ukraine) in a bugged phone conversation about the crisis in Ukraine that led to the Maidan revolution. It seems that Europe’s approach to the election that saw a pro-west president replace a pro-Russia one was not hawkish enough for then US tastes.
by | Mar 26, 2025 | The Hill
Former Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s messages in a Signal group chat about the Houthi attack have left her “absolutely floored.”
“Pete Hegseth put the sequencing of the entire operation & types of aircraft that would be used to conduct these strikes all before the operation took place. He put the lives of our fighter pilots at risk,”
Wednesday on X.
“Details like this are classified,” she added. “I am absolutely floored.”
In her post, Singh included a screenshot of a message Hegseth sent in a Signal group chat over the weekend,
The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who was added to the text chain.
The incident has sparked widespread shock about the top Trump administration officials
about its plans for the Houthi attack.
In the fallout, Hegseth claimed that war plans
in the Signal group, prompting The Atlantic to release more of the screenshots from the chat.
The published chat shows details about the attack that Goldberg’s original article did not contain, including a specific timeline of the strike and weapons used.
The Atlantic said it was releasing the messages because the Trump administration
no classified information was shared over the app.
Singh, who served under the Biden administration, said she believes there will be
from the revelations shared by Goldberg.
Democrats have quickly criticized the administration, with many calling for investigations into the incident and for Hegseth and national security adviser Mike Waltz, who initiated the chat, to resign.
by | Mar 26, 2025 | The Hill
President Trump has named L. Brent Bozell III, a conservative media critic and pro-Israel commentator, to be the U.S. ambassador to South Africa.
According to an action
, the Senate received Bozell’s nomination on Monday. He will have to be confirmed by the upper chamber.
The nomination comes at a time when relations are strained between the U.S. and South Africa.
The Trump administration has criticized the country for its relationship with Iran and criticism of the Israeli government. It has also
South African ambassador to the United States Ebrahim Rasool and labeled him persona non grata.
Earlier this month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio
Rasool of being a “race-baiting politician” after he criticized Trump. The South African diplomat had accused the president of leading a “white supremacist movement” at home and abroad.
Bozell was previously nominated to lead the U.S. global media agency, but the nomination was withdrawn on Monday and his name was then submitted to be the ambassador to South Africa,
.
Bozell is the founder and president of the Media Research Center, a watchdog organization that looks to highlight alleged liberal bias from media outlets, the Times reported.
The outlet noted that Bozell’s son, Leo Brent Bozell IV, was convicted and sentenced in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. He was later pardoned by Trump.
by | Mar 26, 2025 | The Guardian
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