Top American officials share classified details of military strikes with journalist

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The best US officials, including the Vice President and the Minister of Defense, accidentally shared the classified details about the last week’s military strikes in Yemen with a journalist in an unofficial messaging group, which caused a shock in Washington.

JD Vance and Pete HegSeth were among the members of the chat signals that discussed the operational details of the most significant hostilities taken European Allies for “Frilenontation” with the USA.

An obvious security breach occurred after Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor -in -chief of the Atlantic Attacks last week On the basis of Yemen the Houthi rebels after they threatened to resume the attacks on the Ships in the Red Sea.

A Hut Last year, he launched dozens of attacks on the US Navy’s trade courts and ships in the Red Sea, saying that they act in solidarity with Palestinians in response to Israel’s offensive against Hamas.

As also Accounting of messages – Which expressed contempt for the European allies and suggested asking them to pay for the operation – was published on Monday.

The Chat’s faithfulness was confirmed by the National Security Council. “At this time, the topic of the messages that was reported looks real, and we consider how an unintentional number was added to the chain,” said NSC Socialist Brian Hughes.

“The topic is a demonstration of deep and thoughtful coordination of politics between high-ranking officials. The constant success of Huti’s operation shows that there were no threats to our members of the service and our national security.”

According to Goldberg, Vnes suggested that the threat from the Hussites was a more European problem, since only a small part of the US trade went through the Suez Canal. He expressed concern that the US attack was a “mistake” that risks “thorns of oil prices”, “helping Europe.”

A number of members of the group suggested that Europe may ask the US to compensate for the blows. Waltz said he cooperated with government agencies, “to determine how to collect the costs associated with them and recover them from Europeans.”

Another participant, who seemed to be the deputy chief of staff of Trump Stephen Miller, suggested: “If the US successfully restores freedom of navigation for a great price, it is necessary to obtain additional economic benefit in return.”

HEGSET, a former leading Fox News, wrote that he shared the “hated European frilent” by the Vice President.

Trump told reporters on Monday that he did not “know anything” about the chat leak before attacking the output that published history. “I’m not a big fan of Atlantic, for me it is a magazine that doesn’t work. I think it’s not much magazine.”

The reports caused a fiery storm in the US capital, and democratic politicians exploded the Trump administration for “incompetence”.

Jack Reid, Senator Rhode -Ayland and the main democrat of the Committee of the Upper House of Congress, said: “If this is true, this story is one of the most outrageous failures of the prompt safety and common sense I saw.”

JB Pritzker, Democratic Governor of Illinois, wrote on X: “The competence of the Trump administration exposes us at the risk of home and abroad.”

In rarely, critics also cut the critics. “Classified information should not be transmitted through unsecured channels – and, of course, not those who do not have security, including journalists. The period,” Mike Lawler wrote on Monday, the Republican Congressman from New York. “In order to never happen again.”

EU senior diplomats said Vnes’ comments, in particular, reflected his deep hostility to Europe, but was still shocking to find out how much he hated the continent’s support and its interests.

“Incredibly how much his thinking was twisted (in the preferences of the yemen bombing),” said one EU diplomat.

“It’s Bonkers,” the other said. “Really strange.”