The newly disclosed material adds fuel to a mounting controversy about the decision by several officials — including President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, his secretaries of defense and state, the director of national intelligence, the CIA director and Vice President JD Vance — to discuss sensitive operational plans over the messaging app Signal, which is encrypted but not permitted by government rules for discussions of classified information, and to do so in a group including a journalist.
The episode has infuriated Democrats, who have demanded the resignations of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and national security adviser Michael Waltz and put the White House in the uncomfortable position of having to defend the judgment of nearly all of the Trump administration’s most senior national security figures.
The president’s defenders have acknowledged that Goldberg was inadvertently included in the chat while seeking to downplay critics’ assertions that the material shared over the messaging app, had it been compromised by an adversary, would have jeopardized the lives of American service members involved in the operation.
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