'Only Glitch In Two Months': Donald Trump Dismisses Security Concerns Over Yemen Chat Leak
President Donald Trump's Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a post on X that "no 'war plans' were discussed" and "no classified material was sent to the thread"
US President Donald Trump dismissed security concerns after top officials ended up adding a journalist in a top-secret group chat that was discussing airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
The editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg said he received the Signal invitation from Mike Waltz.
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The National Security Council said in a statement that it was looking into how a journalist’s number was added to the chain in the Signal group chat. In addition to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, it included Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s director of national intelligence.
Trump, who took office in January, told NBC News in a phone call that it was “the only glitch in two months, and it turned out not to be a serious one," adding his national security advisor Michael Waltz had “learned a lesson."
Earlier, the White House insisted that no classified material was sent on a chat between senior officials about strikes on Yemen that was accidentally shared with a journalist.
President Donald Trump’s Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a post on X that “no ‘war plans’ were discussed" and “no classified material was sent to the thread."
Hegseth, a former Fox News host with no experience running a huge organization like the Pentagon, took no responsibility for the security breach as he spoke to reporters late Monday.
He instead attacked Goldberg and insisted that “nobody was texting war plans," despite the White House confirming the breach.
Goldberg wrote that Hegseth sent information on the strikes, including on “targets, weapons the US would be deploying, and attack sequencing," to the group chat.
“According to the lengthy Hegseth text, the first detonations in Yemen would be felt two hours hence, at 1:45 pm eastern time," Goldberg wrote — a timeline that was borne out on the ground in Yemen.
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