Signal chat exposes the administration's incompetence

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3. Signal chat flouted rules on classified intel, say former defense officials

Signal chat flouted rules on classified intel, say former defense officials

By Warren P. Strobel, Missy Ryan and Hannah Natanson

The Yemen attack timeline that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted to a Signal chat group would have been so highly classified, under Pentagon guidelines, that the details should have been restricted to a special, compartmented channel with its own code word and with access tightly limited, according to former Defense Department officials.

Hegseth and other senior Trump administration officials have denied that the data they shared in a Signal group, which included the timing of weapons strikes against Yemen’s Houthis and intelligence information shared by Israel on the whereabouts of a top Houthi operative, was classified.

“These are indeed highly detailed operational plans for war,” said one of the former officials, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the issue’s sensitivity. “Twenty-five years, I have never known them not to be classified. And usually this operational level of detail is further restricted to those with a need-to-know” ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/28/signal-leak-hegseth-espionage-classified/