Washington – Israeli officials are furious about the Signal Chat leak Involved the senior officials of the Trump administration because it included the sensitive intelligence that Israel provided to the United States from a source of human intelligence in Yemen, according to CBS News.
While signal chat messages published For Jeffrey Goldberg, from the Atlantic, this week may not have compromised the Airtrike effectiveness, given the containment of the publication by releasing information, pledged a human source that provided intelligence to the Israelis, who later provided it to the United States to guide, a senior North -American Intelligence official and a source with knowledge of the Israelis who told CBS News. They spoke with anonymity to discuss sensitive national security issues.
Thursday Wall Street Journal on the first Thursday informed about Israelis complaining to the north -Americans Mike WaltzPresident Trump’s national security counselor, who set the group chat, and apparently added Goldberg. The group spent several days earlier this month by exchanging messages about possible plans to achieve Huthi militants with Iranian support at Yemen, who repeatedly launched missiles in Israel and have directed sea transport to the Red Sea.
CBS News contacted the National Security Council and the Israeli embassy in the United States for comments on Friday, but did not receive a response.
On March 15, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did text messages the group chat, composed of what is known as Main Committee – The highest level of the National Security Council, which includes members of the Cabinet and other senior North -American officials.
According to Goldberg’s report, one of Hegseth’s messages said:
The 1st Trigger Trigger-based strike window (the target terrorist is its well-known location, so it should be, also, Strones Drones Lunch (MQ-9S)
The maximum US intelligence official told CBS News that, in this context, « based on triggering » refers to an operation that depends on a specific condition or event, essentially, an or without go decision to launch an air attack based on confirmation of the presence of the goal.
That day, Navy F/A-18F Super Hornets launched from the Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier located on the Red Sea, while the MQ-9 Drones reaper took flight of the Middle East bases. The US central command said in a statement That they had started an operation that consisted of « precision strikes against Huthi goals with support for Iran throughout Yemen in order to restore freedom of navigation ».
Hegseth said in another text, before the decision to hit, that he supported him to restore freedom of navigation and restore the deterrent, which he described as « Craterrat » by virtue of Biden’s administration.
After the United States aerial attacks began in Houthis with Iranian support, Waltz addressed the Vice President JD Vance to the chat group to say that the building had collapsed and that the American military forces had « multiple positive identification », indicating the positive identification of Houthi member or the members who sought to kill.
Waltz added: « The first objective, its largest type of missile, had a positive identification that was walking in the building of his girlfriend and was now collapsed, » according to the texts published by the Atlantic.
As a criticism hut this week towards those involved in the signal chat, senior officials of the Trump administration have repeatedly said that the information was not classified and that no sources or methods were committed.
« No locations. Without sources and methods. No war plans. » write to x on Wednesday. « Foreign partners had already been notified that the strikes were imminent. »
But sources that spoke with CBS News say that Israeli intelligence is angry because the intelligence they provided to the United States was revealed. It is unclear what the fall, if there is one, between the United States and Israel on the situation.
CBS News reported on Thursday that President Trump is planned private Its irritation on signal chat filtration and is closely supervising the news to see if the fall is calm, according to sources familiar with this topic.
On Tuesday, the National Director of Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, both on the signal of the signal group, testified Before an audience of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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« There was no classified material shared on this signal chat, » Gabbard told the legislators. The next day, testifying in the face of a house panel, Gabbard acknowledged that the conversation was « sensitive », but the information classified on the chat was refused. « There were no sources, methods, locations or plans of war that were shared, » he said.
Several North -American intelligence officials and members of the North Army -American who talked to CBS News this week argued that this type of information is always classified, but even if the information was somehow classified, it would still be a violation of cybersecurity and operational security protocols.
CBS News published non -classified internal documents on Tuesday of a National Security Agency Bulletin Warning of vulnerability By using the signal application, though it is encrypted. The NSA Bulletin was widely distributed to NSA employees a month before the signal chat group Creas by Waltz.
The Bulletin also emphasized NSA employees than third -party messaging applications such as Sign and WhatsApp is allowed for certain « non -classified accounts withdrawal exercises », but not to communicate more sensitive information.
NSA employees were also warned that they did not send « anything to commit to social networks or social media applications or the Internet » and not to « establish connections with people you do not know ».
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