The chat application of the Trump National Security team is stunned Washington

There are few most sensitive presidential actions, more full of danger than when and where to use the US military force.

If such information was obtained by US adversaries in advance, it could put lives at risk, and national foreign policy objectives.

Fortunately for the Trump administration, a group chat with information about an imminent American strike in Yemen among the senior national security officials in the signal of the encrypted chat application did not fall into the wrong hands.

Unfortunately for the Trump administration, the thread of the message was observed by an influential political journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg.

The editor in chief of Atlantic magazine, in an article published Monday on the website of its publication, says that it seems to have been inadvertently added to the chat by the National Security Advisor of the White House, Michael Waltz.

Group members seemed to include vice president JD Vance, the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, the Chief of Cabinet of the White House, Susie Wiles and the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, among others.

A National Security Council spokesman told the BBC that the thread of the text message “seems to be authentic.”

Goldberg says that the group debated the policy and discussed the operational details about the imminent US military strike, conversations that provided an almost real vision of time to the internal operation of the Trump Senior National Security team.

“Incredible work,” Waltz wrote to the group, a few minutes after the United States occurred to Houthi goals in Yemen took place on Saturday, March 15.

He continued with emojis of an American flag, a fist and a fire. Other senior officials joined the group congratulations.

However, these White House celebrations can be short -lived after Monday’s revelations.

That a stranger could be added inadvertently to sensitive national defense conversations represents a surprising failure of operational security by the Trump administration.

And that these conversations were taking place outside the safe government channels designed for such sensitive communications could violate the espionage law, which establishes rules to handle the classified information.

“This administration is playing fast and loose with the most classified information of our nation, and makes all Americans less safe,” published in X. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the Classification Democrat in the Senate Intelligence Committee, in X.

Democratic congressman Chris Deluzio said in a press release that the Chamber’s Armed Services Committee, in which he sits, must carry out a complete investigation and hearing on the matter as soon as possible.

“This is a scandalous national security breach, and the heads should roll,” he said.

The criticisms were not limited to the Democrats.

Don Bacon, a republican congressman from Nebraska, told the Axios political website that the administration’s action was “excessive.”

“None of this should have been sent in non -safe systems,” he said about Waltz’s messages. “Russia and China are surely monitoring their unqualified phone.”

With the Republicans in control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, Trump’s own party would have to initiate any formal research of the Congress on the matter.

Republican president of the House of Representatives seemed to minimize such a possibility as journalists that the White House had admitted its mistake.

“They will harden and make sure not to happen again,” he said. “I don’t know what else you can say about that.”

Trump, on the other hand, begged ignorance when journalists asked him in the Oval office about the history of the Atlantic, saying that it was the first thing he had heard of her.

The White House then issued a statement defending the president’s national security team, including Waltz.

However, for Monday night, rumors in Washington were spinning that high -level resignations may be necessary, carefully focusing on Waltz, whose invitation led Goldberg to the group conversation. The White House has not provided more comments as this speculation has grown.

In his afternoon statement, the White House said the strikes were “very successful and effective.” That could help minimize some political consequences of the discussions of the Chat group, which also revealed some divisions within the Trump National Security team.

JD Vance was the highest participant in the signal text group who discussed detailed plans on the US military strike against Yemen.

Although the vice president has typically marched in the closing of Trump in his public comments on foreign policy, in private discussions he said that he thought the administration was making an “error” when taking military measures.

He pointed out that the Houthi target forces in Yemen represented a major threat to European shipment, while the danger to US trade was minimal.

“I am not sure that the president is aware of how inconsistent this is with his message in Europe at this time,” Vance wrote. “There is a greater risk that we see a moderate to severe increase in oil prices.”

The vice president continued to say that he would support what the team decided and “these concerns would be maintained for myself.”

“But there is a strong argument to delay this per month, do the messaging work on why this matters, see where the economy is, etc.”

This is far from being the first time that a vice president does not agree with its president in foreign policy affairs.

Dick Cheney faced George W Bush in the last years of his presidency about the management of the Iraq war, and Joe Biden believed that Barack Obama’s undercover operation to kill Osama Bin Laden was too risky.

This is not the first time that the management of sensitive national security material has generated holders. Both Trump and Joe Biden were investigated for their possession of classified information after leaving office. The special lawyer Jack Smith accused Trump for alleged violations related to his refusal to deliver the material stored in his Mar-a-Lago residence, a case that retired when Trump won the re-election last year.

In 2016, the use of Hillary Clinton of a private email server for communications, while the United States Secretary of State became an important problem during its failed presidential campaign.

Like this group of the White House, some of those messages provided information on the internal operation of the Clinton team.

His revelation also proved to be politically harmful. Subsequently it was considered that a handful of his stored messages contained “high secret” information.

“We cannot have someone in the Oval office that does not understand the meaning of the confidential or classified word,” Trump said during that campaign, one of the many attacks against Clinton for what he said was a clear violation of the federal law.

On Monday afternoon, Clinton turned to social networks to publish his own brief comment on the revelations of the White House Group Chat on the signal.

“You have to be joking,” he wrote.