Trump Officials Debated War Plans on Unclassified Chat App

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  Group chat drama royals Washington after top officials accidentally led a journalist in on sensitive war plans.

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  This is one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I have read about in a very,

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  very long time.

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  Plus,

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  March 25th.

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  I'm Luke Var Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of what's news,

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  the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

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  We begin in Washington following revelations

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  that senior national security officials in the Trump administration discussed highly classified war plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen using a non government messaging service and mistakenly included a journalist in the conversation.

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  The chats over the encrypted signal included Vice President J.D. vance,

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  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and others.

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  The existence of the chats was first reported by the Atlantic,

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  whose editor Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently included in the discussion,

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  and a National Security Council spokesman confirmed the authenticity of the messages.

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  Journal national security correspondent Michael Gordon has more.

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  Signal is a popular app for holding private discussions,

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  but national security experts say

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  that government security procedures do not allow it to be used to convey classified information.

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  The government has its own secure communications channels for that.

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