Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg delivered an expletive-laced response to Trump administration officials inadvertently texting highly sensitive war plans to a journalist who was added to a signal group chat with national security officials.
“From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of f—up imaginable,” Buttigieg wrote in a post on X. “These people cannot keep America safe.”
On Monday, The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published a report after national security officials in the Trump administration accidentally added him to a group text chat about strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill also criticized the Trump administration for the massive blunder.
On the Senate floor, Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer (D-NY) , called it “one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence I have read about in a very, very long time” and urged Republicans to seek a “full investigation into how this happened, the damage it created and how we can avoid it in the future”the Guardian reported.
“Every single one of the government officials on this text chain have now committed a crime – even if accidentally,” the Delaware senator Chris Coons wrote on Twitter/X. “We can’t trust anyone in this dangerous administration to keep Americans safe.”
Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY) called the incident “Fubar” (“fucked up beyond all recognition”) and threatened to launch his own congressional investigation “IMMEDIATELY” if House Republicans fail to act.
“This administration is playing fast and loose with our nation’s most classified info, and it makes all Americans less safe,” Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner wrote on X.
