March 25, 2025
Hegseth and Rubio caught discussing classified matters on Signal app
Private messages reveal inappropriate discussions about classified government matters
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On Mar. 25, 2025, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz accidentally added Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat where participants discussed Operation Rough Rider, the Yemen military operation against the Houthis (Daily Beast; Fox News; Wikipedia)
The Atlantic and Washington Post reported that the Signal group chat listed 18 participants, including Vice President JD Vance, Cabinet secretaries, and intelligence directors (Fox News; Washington Post; TIME)
American Oversight filed suit alleging that using Signal to discuss active military operations without preserving records violated the Federal Records Act (Daily Beast; DefenseScoop; Wikipedia)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegsethās messages included a timeline marking 1345 ET as the 'Trigger Based' F-18 first strike window and 1410 ET for the second F-18 strike package (Al Jazeera; Washington Post; Wikipedia)
Senators Roger Wicker and Jack Reed requested a Pentagon Inspector General investigation into whether classified information was shared over unclassified networks (DefenseScoop; NPR; Wikipedia)
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Mike Waltz (National Security Advisor)
erroneously added Jeffrey Goldberg to the operational Signal chat (Daily Beast; Fox News)
Pete Hegseth (Secretary of Defense)
shared sensitive operational timelines in the Signal chat, including strike windows at 1345 ET and 1410 ET (Al Jazeera; Washington Post)
Marco Rubio (Secretary of State)
congratulated 'Pete and your team!!' in the chat, identified as 'MAR' (Wikipedia; Washington Post)