
03/25/2025
A decade ago this month, America found out that Hillary Clinton used a private email server to communicate while serving as secretary of state — and later that a handful of the messages had classified markings.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to put her in prison — “lock her up!” his rally crowds chanted — if he won. He was the victor, but he didn’t pursue a tough-to-win prosecution of Clinton.
Now, two months into Trump’s second presidency, the top officials in his administration were discussing sensitive military operations using a commercial, encrypted cellphone app called Signal, The Atlantic reported.
Jeff Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, wrote a first person account of the group chat he was accidentally invited to.
The chat was called "Houthi PC small group” on Signal. Goldberg wrote in his article that he was initially skeptical of the chat, which "included precise information about weapons packages, targets and timing."
White House officials are "reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain."
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