Fallout from Leaked Signal Chat Intensifies

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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We take a deep look at the fallout from what national security experts are calling one of the most extraordinary intelligence lapses in U.S. history. On Monday Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported that he’d been mistakenly included on an unsecured group chat with senior national security officials as they disclosed plans to attack Yemen. The Atlantic published more of the exchange on Wednesday, while the Trump administration downplayed the blunder and top intelligence officials testified before the House lawmakers. We discuss the national security implications with reporters Eric Schmitt and Garrett Graff. Guests: Eric Schmitt, senior national security correspondent, New York Times Garrett Graff, journalist and historian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.2	Coming up on forum, more Republican senators are calling for investigations and Democrats are intensifying calls for the resignation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth after he posted U.S. attack plans in an unsecured text chat that had accidentally included a journalist among its members.
1:09.0	This hour, we look at the growing fallout from the Signal scandal, its implications for national security,
1:15.1	and we get a better understanding of the U.S.'s military campaign against Houthi rebels.
1:20.5	Listeners, what do you want to better understand about how and why the Signal League happened?
1:25.7	Join us. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. We're taking a closer look this hour. At the impact of what national security experts are calling shocking negligence, among other things.
1:46.0	They're referring to the sharing of U.S. military attack plans, their timing and weapons,
1:50.8	in an unsecured group text chat, and the inadvertent edition of a journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg,
1:57.0	the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic.
1:59.8	Yesterday, Goldberg shared nearly the full text exchange he saw after the Trump administration downplayed the blunder
2:05.4	and claimed no war plans or classified information were included.
2:09.8	Joining me to better understand the national security implications and other impacts of what happened,
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