Signalgate Exposed: Pro-Israel Media, War Plans & Zero Accountability

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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The Press is already calling it Signalgate, harkening back to the infamous political scandal in 1972 under the Nixon administration. On Monday, March 24th the Atlantic broke the story that journalist Jeffery Goldberg had been added to a signal group chat with US national security leaders discussing impending war plans for aerial combat missions against Houthi leadership in Mid March of this year. Classified information was discussed on an open-source civilian messaging application. While Signal is used by military leaders around the world, according to Signal’s CEO, it is against the PEntagon’s operational security protocols. Using a Signal chat to share highly classified information and accidentally including a reporter on the discussion could raise the possibility of violations of federal laws such as the Espionage Act.It can be a crime to mishandle, misuse or abuse classified information, though it is unclear whether such provisions might have been breached in this case. However, the salient point here is that they were using an app with disappearing messages, a feature not available on secure governmental messaging systems where accountability is a priority. Join us tonight on State of Play to do a deep dive into this budding scandal, and what it means for both the administration and for Yemen.

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0:00.0	All right, folks, well, you know, I think we're still working on the intro music. I kind of feel like, you know, if elevator music was trying to also be played in the world's most uncomfortable and awkward spa, that's what it would be. But anyways, let's start off with this. The previous administration, we looked like fools. Not anymore. President Trump has reestablished American leadership.
0:23.2	The F-47 is part of it. And Mr. President, thank you for having the courage to do it and leading
0:28.8	the way for all our warfighters.
0:30.7	Leading the way for all the war fighters. So if you're just listening to the audio, that was the voice of pete hegeseth the uh new secretary of defense
0:39.5	the de i i mean d u i hire that we're all dealing with he was talking about how the vite
0:45.2	administration was a total joke and that was of course i before before the signal gate story
0:53.8	our prime story for this evening broke.
0:56.9	We have a lot to talk about.
0:58.3	We're going to talk about Signalgate, what consequences we'll have for the administration,
1:02.6	the campaign against Yemen and Trump's wider plan for the Middle East.
1:07.5	This is like the biggest scandal in years, and it's just getting started.
1:13.6	Hello and welcome to state of play on Mint Press News, your weekly Monday or Tuesday.
1:18.2	We pushed it back to Tuesday because we wanted this story to develop a little bit more news stream,
1:23.1	where we discuss all the insanity that happened over the weekend,
1:25.8	because if you haven't been paying
1:28.0	attention to the past 500 days, more than 500 days, it's where most of the clownish insanity
1:33.9	goes down and the administration spends the rest of the week doing damage control.
1:39.1	And this weekend was a doozy. The press is already calling it Signalgate, harkening back to the infamous political
1:46.8	scandal in 1972 under Nixon administration, called Watergate, in case you weren't tracking
1:53.0	American political history. On Monday, yesterday, March 24th, the Atlantic broke the story that
1:59.1	journalist Jeffrey Goldberg had been added to a
2:01.8	Signal group chat with U.S. national security leaders discussing impending war plans for aerial
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