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Report Signalgate Crisis Deepens With More Messages Revealed The White House continues to downplay the incident even after the Atlantic publishes the full text conversation. By Alexandra Sharp , the World Brief writer at Foreign Policy , and Rishi Iyengar , a reporter at Foreign Policy . U.S. Rep. Jason Crow speaks before a House Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington. U.S. Rep. Jason Crow speaks in front of text messages by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a House Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington on March 26. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images My FP: Follow topics and authors to get straight to what you like. Exclusively for FP subscribers. Subscribe Now | Log In Military Security United States Rishi Iyengar March 26, 2025, 5:52 PM Comment icon View Comments ( 0 ) On Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testified before the House Intelligence Committee to discuss their participation in a Signal group chat that appears to have accidentally leaked highly sensitive information about an impending U.S. military strike in Yemen. The scandal, dubbed “ Signalgate ,” continues to roil Washington as the White House tries to explain how top officials in the Trump administration ended up carrying out one of the most serious breaches of U.S. national security in recent memory. Trump’s Second Term Ongoing reports and analysis On Monday, the Atlantic revealed that U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz accidentally included magazine editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg on a text chain discussing planned military strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen. More than a dozen other high-ranking officials were also in the group chat, including Gabbard and Ratcliffe as well as Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and White House special envoy Steve Witkoff. On Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testified before the House Intelligence Committee to discuss their participation in a Signal group chat that appears to have accidentally leaked highly sensitive information about an impending U.S. military strike in Yemen. The scandal, dubbed “ Signalgate ,” continues to roil Washington as the White House tries to explain how top officials in the Trump administration ended up carrying out one of the most serious breaches of U.S. national security in recent memory. Trending Articles Why Republicans Hate the Department of Education Broad popular support means that even Ronald Reagan failed at dismantling the agency. Powered By Advertisement Why Republicans Hate the Department of Education X Trump’s Second Term Ongoing reports and analysis On Monday, the Atlantic revealed that U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz accidentally included magazine editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg on a text chain discussing planned military strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen. More than a dozen other high-ranking officials were also in the group chat, including Gabbard and Ratcliffe as well as Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and White House special envoy Steve Witkoff. Out of concern for national security, Goldberg deliberately left out of his initial report part of the conversation, in which Hegseth had shared what Goldberg described as “operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing.” However, after Gabbard and Ratcliffe testified under oath before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that no classified information had been included in the chat, Goldberg on Wednesday published the full contents of the chat that he was part of. “TIME NOW (1144et): Weather is FAVORABLE. Just CONFIRMED w/CENTCOM we are a GO for mission launch,” Hegseth texted in the group on March 15, ahead of the military operation that killed at least 53 people in Yemen. Read more in today’s World Brief: Signalgate Triggers Calls for Trump Cabinet Resignations . This post is part of FP’s ongoing coverage of the Trump administration . Follow along here . My FP: Follow topics and authors to get straight to what you like. Exclusively for FP subscribers. Subscribe Now | Log In Military Security United States Rishi Iyengar Alexandra Sharp is the World Brief writer at Foreign Policy . X: @AlexandraSSharp Rishi Iyengar is a reporter at Foreign Policy . X: @Iyengarish Read More On Military | Security | Strategic Intelligence | United States Join the Conversation Commenting on this and other recent articles is just one benefit of a Foreign Policy subscription. Already a subscriber? Log In . Subscribe Subscribe View 0 Comments Join the Conversation Join the conversation on this and other recent Foreign Policy articles when you subscribe now. Subscribe Subscribe Not your account? Log out View 0 Comments Join the Conversation Please follow our comment guidelines , stay on topic, and be civil, courteous, and respectful of others’ beliefs. You are commenting as . 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