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An apparent national security breach that included group text exchanges among top Trump administration officials about U.S. war plans in the Middle East is raising alarm bells

tonight.

The story broken by the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Magazine, who, in an article published

today, describes how he was

accidentally added to a discussion group of the U.S. response to Houthi rebel attacks.

Jeffrey Goldberg, reporting he received the text by way of the encrypted messaging app signal

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