The chat is out of the bag: a stunning leak
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Put aside for the moment the outrageous security breach of a journalist being brought in on classified military planning: a leaked group chat reveals much about the Trump administration’s transactional, anti-European ethos. The story of a Nigerian senator shows how vile politics can be for the country’s women (10:23). And why not to be too bothered by colleagues stealing your ideas (16:26).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 0:15.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:28.6 | Nigerian politics is a nasty place for women. Our correspondent says that's apparent in the details of a sexual harassment scandal |
| 0:33.6 | that will be litigated in a parliamentary hearing today. |
| 0:44.1 | And there's one behavior that employees find more annoying than any other, |
| 0:46.2 | having their ideas stolen. |
| 0:51.5 | But our columnist says there are plenty of reasons to forgive thieving colleagues or to wait for the theft to backfire. |
| 0:55.0 | Thank you. to give thieving colleagues or to wait for the theft to backfire. First up, though. |
| 1:00.0 | Ten days ago, America carried out the largest air strikes on Yemen since President Trump took |
| 1:15.8 | office again. The targets were radar and drone systems used by Houthi rebels, an Iran-backed |
| 1:22.4 | militia that's been threatening trade routes in the Red Sea since 2023. |
| 1:29.6 | You know who wasn't surprised by the strikes? |
| 1:33.3 | Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Magazine. |
| 1:34.5 | You know why? |
| 1:39.0 | Because he had been added to a group on the encrypted messaging app signal, |
| 1:43.2 | in which everybody who's anybody in America's security establishment was plotting out the attacks. |
| 1:45.6 | And you know who claimed not to know a damn thing about it? |
| 1:48.7 | You're saying that they had what? |
| 1:50.6 | They were using signal to coordinate on sensitive materials and... |
| 1:55.5 | Having to do with what? |
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