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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Trump Advisers Debate the Houthi Strikes... on the Signal Chat App?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

President Trump's top aides, including Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, reportedly discussed U.S. war plans against the Houthis in Yemen via the chat app Signal, according to the Atlantic magazine's Jeffrey Goldberg, who was apparently added to the group by mistake. What do their texts reveal, and how serious was this as a security breach? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6

From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal. This is Potomac Watch.

0:44.3

Top presidential advisors, including Vice President J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth and National Security Advisor Mike Walts, are accused of holding sensitive discussions

0:49.7

and even sharing U.S. war plans over the commercial chat app signal after they loop in a

0:55.8

Washington journalist apparently by accident. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

1:01.6

We are joined today by my colleagues on the editorial board, Elliot Kaufman and Kate Batchelder

1:07.2

Odell. Beginning on March 15th, American forces, including from the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier,

1:14.7

made a series of strikes on the Houthi forces in Yemen who have been menacing the Red Sea,

1:20.2

slowing global trade.

1:21.8

National Security Advisor Mike Walt said at the time that the attacks had been successful,

1:26.3

hitting Houthi leadership, killing key leaders,

1:29.3

infrastructure, hitting missiles. But on Monday, the editor of the Atlantic magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg,

1:35.5

wrote that he had received advance notice of what was about to happen,

1:39.6

apparently by mistake after he was included in a signal chat group with other users, including Michael

1:46.4

Waltz, a user called Pete Hegseth, a signal user identified as J.D. Vance.

1:52.4

A spokesman for the National Security Council told Goldberg this appears to be an authentic

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