{"id":16245,"date":"2025-03-29T23:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/what-the-signal-leak-revealed-about-washington\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T23:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:54:06","slug":"what-the-signal-leak-revealed-about-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/what-the-signal-leak-revealed-about-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Signal Leak Revealed About Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">You\u2019re the C.I.A. director. Why didn\u2019t you call out that he was present on the Signal thread. I don\u2019t know if you use Signal messaging app. I do. I do not for classified information, not for targeting, not for sending remotely. Neither do I. \u201cIt\u2019s a national security scandal that nobody saw coming. And the first major test of the limits of a new administration that prides itself on breaking norms. This week, we learned that some of the highest-ranking officials in Washington were planning a bombing campaign in Yemen via Signal. Their messages, which were accidentally shared with a journalist from The Atlantic, have sparked a backlash over the administration\u2019s handling of state secrets \u2014\u201d I think that it\u2019s by the awesome grace of God that we are not mourning dead pilots right now. These are important jobs. This is our national security. \u201c\u2014 and opened a rare window into how national security decisions are made in the emoji era. From The New York Times. This is the roundtable. I\u2019m Jess Bidgood with Helene Cooper, David Sanger and Zolan Kanno-Youngs. Thank you so much for being here and for turning off your phones for a full 30 minutes on what I know is like a really busy news day for all of you. I was in the New York Times Washington bureau on Monday. Zolan and I sit kind of near each other. You two sit on the other side of the bureau. And there we were when all of a sudden, at some point Monday afternoon, I just heard this collective gasp. And what had happened: The Atlantic had posted that story. Helene, you\u2019ve been covering defense for a long time. If I want to know something about the Pentagon, the military, I come to you. What was going through your mind as you read these text messages and why is this all such a big deal? When the story first dropped, by The Atlantic, the first thing I saw in there was not the fact that they were having a Signal group chat. It was the fact that Pete Hegseth had put the strike sequencing in there. That was, for me, from the start, the biggest deal. Jeff Goldberg wrote in the article that there was \u2014 I think the word, he used the word sequencing. And that means, in military terms, it\u2019s what time fighter jets are going to leave the aircraft carrier. And then it\u2019s what time \u2014 they call that the strike window. And that is the window of time that American fighter pilots are going to be in the air. That is so highly guarded in the Pentagon. It\u2019s been drummed into every military reporter\u2019s head. You do not compromise operational security like that. They\u2019re having this conversation on a Signal group chat, and that\u2019s a big deal. But what\u2019s the really big deal is that not the conversation \u2014 it\u2019s that he put these plans in there. So it\u2019s not just the fact that it\u2019s happening on Signal, it\u2019s what they\u2019re specifically \u2014 For me, it\u2019s what specifically they were saying. Absolutely. David, I wonder if you can speak to that a little bit. Why is it \u2014 why is this kind of stuff really not supposed to be in any place other than the most secure spaces that we build for this kind of information. Well, Helene\u2019s absolutely right. If you took out that sequencing, then all you had was an embarrassment that came from the conversation taking place on Signal. With it \u2014 as one senior American commander texted me in midweek \u2014 with that in, he said, the good news is no harm was actually done. The operation went off perfectly well. He said the bad news is, had it been midlevel Pentagon people who did this and put this on, he said you\u2019d be watching court-martials now. And that took you to what I think were the fascinating, connected layers of this. The first layer is just the arrogance of doing this on Signal because it is convenient, versus \u2014 to your point, Jess \u2014 what the way you normally do this, which is in the situation room, right? With no phones around, very little, except for those people who had to be channeled in on a U.S. government phone. The second is the arrogance, once it came out, of trying to pretend that this wasn\u2019t classified data. The conversation was candid and sensitive. But as the president and national security adviser stated, no classified information was shared. There were no sources, methods, locations or war plans that were shared. And then the final sort of big level that\u2019s going on here of remarkable nature of this is trying to go blame Jeff Goldberg, an extremely experienced, good reporter \u2014 I\u2019ve known Jeff for 30 years. He is among the best national security reporters who are around here. He\u2019s also the editor of The Atlantic. And somehow it\u2019s his fault that they put him on the Signal chat. But that\u2019s part of a usual playbook by this administration that we\u2019ve seen for a while. When there\u2019s a story and it actually signals just how much alarm it\u2019s causing in this White House. The playbook being when a story is really bothering the high ranks of the White House, then you see Trump and his top aides establish an opponent, establish an enemy to blame. In this case, it being the journalist. He\u2019s made up a lot of stories. And I think he\u2019s basically bad for the country. You\u2019re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who\u2019s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again. And then, on the other hand, belittle actually what was in that story that\u2019s causing so much concern. Again, the attacks were unbelievably successful, and that\u2019s ultimately what you should be talking about. What\u2019s been interesting and a little unusual about this response is just actually how incoherent it\u2019s been even with that baseline. You have had some officials say that it wasn\u2019t classified information. Then the president started to walk it back. You\u2019ve had Mike Waltz on one day, tried to take, it seemed, responsibility for this chat, since he was the one that organized it and invited people in. Look, I take full responsibility. I built the group. My job is to make sure everything\u2019s coordinated. And then the next day, have White House officials say, actually, this is a hoax. So even on that \u2014 and then Marco Rubio said, It\u2019s a great mistake. Obviously someone made a mistake. Someone made a big mistake and added a journalist. Nothing against journalists, but you ain\u2019t supposed to be on that thing. He\u2019s the only one who\u2019s actually acknowledged the severity of it. That\u2019s right. And you had Hegseth as saying it was a hoax, and hours later, maybe it was a little bit before, actually, the director of the C.I.A., John Ratcliffe, comes out and says, no, that looked like it was exactly the chain we were all on. I mean, he confirmed that it was for real. I think that gets at something that I think is really important about this story, and that is that as revealing as the text messages themselves were, the reaction has been just as revealing the reaction from top members of the administration, as they have kind of obfuscated, changed their explanations, struggled to explain it. And I\u2019m wondering, Zolan, what do you think is at stake for the administration here. What is this a test of? Competence. I mean, a perception of competence. You had an administration come in and put a lot of government officials on leave and a lot of programs under this name of restoring merit and competence to the government. This doesn\u2019t look competent \u2014 to organize a Signal chat on a commercial platform and discuss sensitive details, including the timing of these jets taking off that has caused national security officials and veterans of national security to say that it actually put pilots at risk. I ran into a former Justice Department official who was talking about what he described as the carelessness of this whole episode, and really emphasizing the concern that it brought for the national security reputation of this administration. And then on the other end, too, I think that if you asked most reporters in Washington, would any Republican be calling for a means of oversight against this administration. They would probably say that\u2019s dubious. That\u2019s doubtful. Trump has a grip on this party. But you are seeing not only Democrats, but some Republicans criticize this. And what does accountability look like in a moment like this? What would it have looked like in the past, and what do you think it can conceivably look like now? Well, I\u2019d like to go back to your question that you asked Zolan, which is, What does the reaction tell us? Sure. Because that I\u2019ve been working for the last two days on a story that looks at the reaction and how that is being felt among fighter pilots. These are the men and women who are strapping into cockpits every day on behalf of this country, and they have an expectation that their commander in chief and their defense secretary and the people who command them are going to have their back. And the fact that Pete Hegseth \u2014 what they are most angry about, every single one that I talked to \u2014 what they are most angry about is not necessarily the disclosure on Signal \u2014 the fact that he put these strike plans on Signal \u2014 because, as one fighter pilot told me, everybody makes a mistake. It\u2019s the fact that he stood up afterwards \u2014 Pete Hegseth \u2014 and said, There\u2019s nothing wrong with this. There\u2019s no units, no locations, no routes, no flight paths, no sources, no methods, no classified information. The fact that he\u2019s not acknowledging that he\u2019s made a mistake means that, de facto, defense secretary of the United States is saying it\u2019s O.K. to put these flight plans in a commercial Signal app. So does that mean, then, that all of these decades of operational security, all of the lengths that pilots go to to maintain, they have burn rooms in \u2014 on aircraft carriers where they burn every piece of paper that might indicate what their flight plan is or anything like that. Their radio silence. They\u2019re not talking about their Red Sea operations on radios because they know people are listening. They know the Iranians are listening. They know the Chinese are listening. They know the Russians are listening. So you have this level of operational security that they\u2019re going through. But then the secretary of defense doesn\u2019t abide by it and is saying it\u2019s O.K. not to abide by it, and they\u2019re pissed. I mean, let\u2019s put a fine point on that. They are trained to literally burn their plans. Yes. That\u2019s how secret this is supposed to be. Yes. And in his response to all of this, do you think Pete Hegseth is \u2014 he\u2019s managing up? He\u2019s trying to come up with a response that he thinks will please President Trump. And in the process, he\u2019s not addressing the concerns of the troops who serve the country. I\u2019m not going to try to get into Pete Hegseth\u2019s head, but I can certainly tell you that he has lost a lot of confidence among the 1.3 million servicemen and women in the active-duty American military. I can say that when Trump brings people into his cabinet and into his close inner circle, he is measuring loyalty and how much they adopt the Roy Cohn strategy of fighting against any sort of criticism. Pete Hegseth was brought into this administration in part because of how he defended the president on television. And on Fox News. Almost entirely. He wasn\u2019t brought in for his deep experience. And I think we learn some things about the players in the course of this. So for Pete Hegseth, we learned, first of all, it was amateur hour. We learned about JD Vance. He raised a really interesting dissenting point. He raised the possibility that the president may be not be fully informed about the nature of the trade-offs here. He had to go do some damage control on that. Right. And this concern, this key concern, it was about how it looks, right? How it looks to the allies, how it looks to the public. The allies all came to the conclusion that in private, JD Vance is even more dismissive of them than he is in public. And he was pretty dismissive of them in public. So they\u2019re beginning to think, well, gee, if we actually got into trouble with the Russians are the Americans coming to help us? No. It was interesting to \u2014 just on the JD Vance note, you mentioned containing the fallout and damage control. The only damage control that he did was in terms of the dissent, the perception of dissent. His team issued one statement saying that he is aligned \u2014 paraphrasing, but that he\u2019s aligned with Trump. Did not address the idea that the concerns around discussing national security on this \u2014 on a commercial app, Pete Hegseth sharing the details of actually the planning for this strike \u2014 He\u2019s never addressed the core issue. No, because to it \u2014 at least based off their statement, to him, the core issue was any perception that he\u2019s breaking with the president. And imagine the credibility he could have gained by stepping out and said: \u201cYou know, in retrospect, while it didn\u2019t do any damage, I shouldn\u2019t have put that on a Signal chat. I\u2019ve learned my lesson from this, and we\u2019ll recommit ourselves to doing this right.\u201d That is not the theme of this administration. No, that would require a level of humility that I don\u2019t think we have seen displayed by any of these administration officials. I think one other thing that was really interesting about the Signal chat is who wasn\u2019t on the chat \u2014 is both who was, you had the White House chief of staff. You had the Treasury chief of staff, but also who wasn\u2019t. Who wasn\u2019t there was the acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This is the senior military advisor to the defense secretary and the president. This is the highest- ranking military official. So he\u2019s supposed to be on there, and he is the one who is not on there. But when you think of the people who might have been ones to step up and say, Maybe we shouldn\u2019t be putting this on a chat, or, We\u2019re going to have to change this strikes. We can\u2019t this have on this. But Adm. Christopher Grady, who\u2019s the acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he was not invited to the chat. And I asked the Hegseth people why. And the response I got from press secretary Sean Parnell this was a political chat. It\u2019s perfectly normal that you wouldn\u2019t have the military generals in there. Of course. Think about this. You normally people who are left out of chats, right, would have FOMO. That\u2019s what happened. That\u2019s what I\u2019m sure. It\u2019s not in there. Who among us has not realized, Oh my gosh, all my friends are texting each other and I\u2019m not in that group chat. This one is like, whew. This is the one that in retrospect, maybe you\u2019re glad that you\u2019re not a part of. But I do think \u2014 you raised the point that he might have been the person to say, Hey, let\u2019s keep this information out of the chat. But anybody could have done that at any point \u2014 Including Susie Wiles \u2014 \u2014 any one of them. \u2014 the chief of staff to the president, who might have said, Hey, should we be having this conversation downstairs in the sit room? And what it tells you is how fundamentally absent experience they are. Because if this had happened in the first Trump term, you would have had the defense secretary, Jim Mattis, who had been a commander, run one of the largest commands in the U.S. military, and so forth. He would have known just how you went and did this. And so would a range of other officials. But by turning away from experience to get the loyalists that you heard about from Zolan, that\u2019s what they gave up. Also, you asked an interesting question before, which I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve answered, which was who should be investigating this? Well, clearly the Pentagon inspector general. Oh, wait \u2014 we don\u2019t have a Pentagon inspector general. All the inspector generals were fired. Right. This question of accountability, of what can accountability actually look like in this moment, I think is really important. So O.K., the Pentagon inspector general is gone. Does this, does this some kind of test or does this raise questions for Pam Bondi? She stepped out and said this was sensitive but not classified. It was sensitive information, not classified and inadvertently released. I don\u2019t know how she could have done it. I also don\u2019t understand why that is a factor in whether you would have launched an investigation. The Espionage Act doesn\u2019t mention \u2014 hinge on classified information. It hinges on information before there was classified. So I don\u2019t think we should get tied up in this whole classified, classified discussion at all. That\u2019s just \u2014 again, a lot of what the administration has been doing is trying to hide behind semantics. They hide behind, Oh, it wasn\u2019t war plans. It was strike sequencing. They hide behind this whole classified versus not \u2014 unclassified. Hegseth has the power to declassify anything. So he, as defense secretary, could theoretically have declassified the war plans after he \u2014 presumably he would have done it before he put that out there on a Signal chat with a journalist. But it\u2019s not about \u2014 forget about all of these semantics. And I think it\u2019s just really important that we look at what actually happened and you look at what actually was done, and you ask yourself how you would feel if you were a fighter pilot for this country, and you got in a cockpit, and you knew that senior officials were discussing what you were about to do on a commercial chat. And as we hear this kind of semantic response from the White House about what was classified and what wasn\u2019t, I think we also have to remember that a lot of these individuals talked a lot about classified information and the importance of keeping it secret. Are you talking about Hillary? After Hillary Clinton and her emails. Apparently, the standard operating procedure inside the Clinton secretary of state office was to send emails that couldn\u2019t otherwise be printed to the maid, to print them out of a secure area or from a secure area, and then hand them off. Any security professional, military, government or otherwise, would be fired on the spot for this type of conduct and criminally prosecuted for being so reckless with this kind of information. Now, as Zolan said before, this has given Democrats a unified line of attack. But at the same time, we are seeing Democrats who over the years have downplayed the emails issue suddenly demanding resignations and going all out on this. Is there an element of hypocrisy there, do you think? I think this moment kind of shows how much hypocrisy is attached to Washington. And as is tied to really the foundation of politics at times. For Democrats, you said, spent years downplaying that there was any issue with the Hillary Clinton episode with emails and are now, as I said, after weeks of \u2014 could have been there were plenty of times they could have said, we\u2019re going to attack the Trump administration on this or that, putting workers on leave, various immigration policies. And it was inconsistent. Now coalescing around this. At the same time, Republicans for years have attacked Democrats over the handling of information, over the Hillary Clinton email scandal. Remember, \u201cLock her up\u201d was such a theme during the Trump campaign. So crooked Hillary. Wait, crooked. You should lock her up, I\u2019ll tell you. By the way, also Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, the two people we were talking about any level of oversight \u2014 were two people in the past that homed in on that and said that Hillary Clinton should face some form of prosecution. We are not seeing that reaction this time from Republicans. We are seeing them also mostly across the board try to belittle this and play it down and move on. So we are seeing that there\u2019s a time to seize on an issue like this, to criticize when it\u2019s politically advantageous for your party. Well, Attorney General Bondi said this morning, If you want to see classified data, not sensitive data, go look at Hillary\u2019s email and email server. Well, I covered that. Helene covered that during that time, and my memory of those memos \u2014 And this makes no excuse \u2014 she should not have had the server at home. She should not have been putting anything that was classified on it. They were not operational details. They were debates about diplomatic disputes they were having with various countries. Shouldn\u2019t have gotten out, but didn\u2019t have a life and death nature to it, the way the operational details do here. There\u2019s one other great irony here, and that is that just this same week, we saw the administration go to court and invoke the state secrets privilege. So they wouldn\u2019t have to describe the flights that were taking gang members, or suspected gang members, out of the country. That was a state secret. But the sequencing that Helene has been describing is just sensitive, but not really classified. I mean, I just don\u2019t know. Not war plans, right. So, I mean, I just don\u2019t run into a lot of national security people in the course of the day. I have not found one this week who just didn\u2019t consider the arguments here to be farcical. And by the way, those deportation flights had already happened. And they\u2019re saying that is a state secret here. Whereas in this case, we\u2019re talking about information that was discussed on a commercial app two hours before the strike happened. But that\u2019s not \u2014 This is an administration, as you said, David, that invokes secrecy when it is convenient to do so, when it sees this \u2014 when it sees it in its interest to do so. One person that we haven\u2019t talked a lot about is national security adviser Mike Waltz. He is the one who made this Signal chat in the first place. He then went on TV to try to explain himself, talked a little bit incoherently about the idea that Jeffrey Goldberg might have been sucked into the chat in some way. But how did the number \u2014 Have you ever have you ever had somebody\u2018s contact that shows their name and then you have and then you have somebody else\u2019s number. I never make those mistakes. You\u2019ve got somebody else\u2019s number on someone else\u2019s contact. So of course, I didn\u2019t see this loser in the group. What are we learning about him, and what are we learning about what might be next for him? Yeah, I mean, I\u2019ve never heard of somebody getting sucked into a chat, without being invited first. First? Anybody would like to suck me into any chats, by the way. Go right ahead. The first time that we saw Waltz respond to this was actually in front of Trump when Trump was being asked about this. This journalist, Mr. President, wants the world talking about more hoaxes and this kind of nonsense rather than the freedom that you\u2019re enabling. Then we actually saw later on, in a TV interview, him take some responsibility for this. And you did see the president say Mike Waltz is a good man. He\u2019s doing a good job, and defend him. But we have seen a more aggressive defense from the present for Pete Hegseth as well. Hegseth is doing a great job. He had nothing to do with this. How do you bring Hegseth into it? He had nothing to do. Look, look, it\u2019s all a witch hunt. Before this all happened, Mike Waltz was running a little bit on shaky ground. At one point, everybody thought that he was going to be the next secretary of defense. That\u2019s right. He was \u2014 he was considered for that. So he\u2019s experienced. He knows what\u2019s going on. In some ways you have to feel a little bit sorry for him because who here has not typed the wrong \u2014 Not this bad. I haven\u2019t done this. Something like this? And certainly not a military operation. But, he made an error here. And whereas Hegseth made a decision to place a timeline for attack into an unclassified channel. And that\u2019s part of what makes it notable that Trump seems to be doing so much to stand by Hegseth in this moment. Yeah. Yeah. We\u2019ll just have to see how Mike Waltz survives on this and how Hegseth does. And Hegseth has a long relationship with the president that will probably stand him in good stead. His bigger problem now is with the allies and with his own troops, as as Helene pointed out. And with Congress. and he\u2019s going to have trouble with Congress. I mean, it\u2019s clear that Hegseth looks the part of what Trump likes. He\u2019s got the Fox News look, he\u2019s got the hair. Trump clearly likes that. But I think that Hegseth was confirmed \u2014 JD Vance had to come in and make the deciding tiebreaking vote. He was confirmed 50\/50 by the Senate, barely by the skin of his teeth. And he\u2019s had one stumble after another. So I think Hegseth, for all the trouble that Mike Waltz may be in, I think that Hegseth is probably in as much trouble. Absolutely. And now, one thing that this whole episode raises, I think is a question: What other chats are out there? What else is being planned in unsecure places? Who might be doing that? Do we have any sense if there is a broader security issue in government? What are the questions it raises for you? Well, the fact that nobody on that chat at any point while Jeff Goldberg was on there said, Hey, maybe we should take this to the situation room, tells you that they\u2019re doing this all the time. I mean, this seemed completely normal. There was no \u2014 Well, they were until Monday. Yes. So I would say there probably many, many others that have been going on, maybe \u2014 You think they\u2019ve stopped? Well, probably for that kind of planning. Signal serves a really important point. I mean, we all use it, right? And we all use it because it\u2019s the best encryption out there that is available on a commercial \u2014 in this case, free basis. White House, military, intelligence officials frequently use it for communicating with people outside their world. They\u2019ve got to do that. But the trick here is knowing what it\u2019s to be used for and what it\u2019s not to be used for. And of course, we know that China and Russia are trying to get into Signal as well. There\u2019s been a scam around that doesn\u2019t get at a flaw in Signal, but just how you link up your phone with your computer, that is a way for the Russians to try. In particular, they\u2019ve been trying to get into the system that way. But I think people are going to have to come to some real understanding about what you use Signal for and what you don\u2019t use it for. Just in case they don\u2019t come to that understanding. I want to end with one last question for you guys, which is, What is the group chat that you would like to be accidentally added to? I doubt that they\u2019re in one, but I wouldn\u2019t mind being in the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris group chat. As we still assess what happened with the previous election, and we still try and look back on the relationship between those two \u2014 Absolutely. \u2014 and maybe let\u2019s add some of their senior staffers to tackle some of the questions, like, Should the vice president have broken with the president earlier? But I suppose that\u2019s for a different roundtable, One that I would be happy to have. How about you? I\u2019d love to be in the Taiwan group chat. Wouldn\u2019t that be a good one? Who\u2019s on \u2014 who\u2019s on that? Who\u2019s in that chat? Everybody who was in the other chat. Yeah. Yeah. I want to be on the chat when they realize that Jeff Goldberg was in their chat. The cleanup chat. Oh, the secondary chat. The secondary. Oh my God. Did you see what just happened? When they saw \u201cJ.G. has left the chat.\u201d Yes. Well, I would like to be in a group chat with all of you. Thank you so, so much for joining us today and taking time out of your schedules. And I cannot wait to read your next stories on this. Thank you so much. Thanks, Jess. I was going to say I wanted to be on Zolan\u2018s next party group chat. I\u2019m leaving you there. I was two seconds away from saying, Don\u2019t do it. Are you having parties and not inviting me? Well, that\u2019s the only way. 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