Signal chat leak விவகாரம்
Signal chat leak விவகாரம் அமெரிக்காவையும் முழு உலகத்தையும் அதிச்சியில் உள்ளாக்கியுள்ள சூழ்நிலையில் ஜனாதிபதி ரம்பும் அவர் தம் வெள்ளை விடுதி அதிகாரிகளும் `முழுப் பூசணிக்காயை சோற்றுக்குள் மறைப்பது போல்
அப்படி எதுவும் நிகழ்ந்துவிடவில்லையென அடியோடு நிராகரித்துவிட்டனர்.
எனினும் தேசிய பாதுகாப்புக்கு அச்சுறுத்தலான போர்த்திட்டங்கள் அங்கு பேசப்பட்டு பகிரங்கப்படுத்தப்பட்டதாக ஜனநாயக் கட்சியினர் குற்றம் சாட்டிவருகின்றனர்.
இந்தப் பின்னணியில் ஜனநாயக் கட்சி செனட்டர்களின் தேசிய பாதுகாப்பு தொடர்பான விசாரணை அமர்வு இன்று இடம்பெற்றது.
இவ்விசாரணை அமர்வில் Signal chat இல் கலந்து கொண்ட 5 வெள்ளை விடுதி உயரதிகாரிகள் குறுக்கு விசாரணைக்கு உட்படுத்தப்பட்டனர்.
இறுதியாக பழியும் பாவமும் பாதுகாப்பு அமைச்சரைச் சூழ்ந்துகொண்டது.
Signal chat leak விவகாரம்:
அமெரிக்க ரம்ப் நிர்வாகத்தின் உயர்மட்ட அதிகாரிகள் அண்மையில் மீண்டும் ஆரம்பித்த யேமன் போர்த்திட்டத்தை வெளியார் ஒருவருக்கு தவறுதலாக பரிமாறியதாக செய்திகள் வெளிவந்துள்ளன. ஊடக உலகம் முழுமையிலும் இச் செய்தி பரபரப்பை ஏற்படுத்தியுள்ளது.இந்த வெளியார் `அத்திலாந்திக்` எனும் சஞ்சிகை சார்ந்த தலைமைப் பத்திரிகையாளர் ஆவார்.
காசா போர் நிறுத்தத்தை ஒருதலைப் பட்சமாக மீறி மீண்டும் முழு அளவிலான போரை இஸ்ரேல் ஆரம்பித்ததற்குப் பதிலடியாக, செங்கடலில் பயணிக்கும் இஸ்ரேல் கப்பல்கள் மீது மீண்டும் தாக்குதல் தொடுப்போம் என யேமன் ஹுத்தி போராளிகள் அறிவித்தனர்.
இதிலிருந்து இஸ்ரேலைப் பாதுகாக்கும் பொருட்டு ஹுத்தி போராளிகளுக்கு எதிராக இராணுவத் தாக்குதலைத் தொடுக்க வெள்ளை விடுதி அதிகாரிகள் ஆலோசனைக் கூட்டம் ஒன்றை நடத்தினர்.
ஜனாதிபதியின் மிக நெருங்கிய வட்டாரத்தினருள் இரகசிய குழுநிலை உரையாடலுக்காக உபயோகப்படுத்தப்படும் தனியார் APP ஆன Signal chat எனும் இரகசிய பாதுகாப்பு முறையிலான உரையாடலாக அமைந்திருந்தது.
இந்த உரையாடல் 'messaging group` / குழுவில் The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg உள்ளடக்கப்பட்டிருந்ததை வெள்ளை விடுதி கவனிக்கத் தவறி அவருக்கும் கூட்ட அழைப்பு அனுப்பி போர்த்திட்டங்களைப் பரிமாறிக் கொண்டது!
மார்ச் மாதம் 13 திகதி எதிர்பாராதவிதமாக தனக்கு இந்த திரைமறைவு இரகசியக் கூட்டத்தில் இருந்து தகவல் வந்ததாக Jeffrey Goldberg தனது The Atlantic பத்திரிகையில் தகவல் வெளியிட்டு கருத்துரைத்துள்ளார்.
மேலும் படிக்க:
Democrats slam intel chiefs over Trump team’s Signal leak of war plans
Intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were evasive when pressed at a Senate hearing as to whether the discussion contained classified information.
March 25, 2025 By Abigail Hauslohner and Warren P. Strobel
Democrats hammered the United States’ top intelligence officials Tuesday morning as they delivered the annual global threat assessment to Congress — a day after a bombshell report that the vice president, defense secretary, national security adviser and other top Cabinet members used a commercial messaging app to discuss secret war plans for Yemen and inadvertently included a journalist in the group chat.
At least two of the officials who appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe — were among those who participated in the group chat over the Signal messaging app. In the chat convened by national security adviser Michael Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others reportedly detailed the targets, sequencing and weapons involved in a U.S. air attack on Yemen’s Houthis, before the Pentagon launched the strikes on March 15.
“If this was the case of a military officer or an intelligence officer, and they had this kind of behavior, they would be fired,” Sen. Mark R. Warner (Virginia), the committee’s top Democrat, said in his opening remarks, noting that in addition to the targeting information, the text chain included the identity of an active CIA officer. “This is one more example of the kind of sloppy, careless, incompetent behavior, particularly toward classified information,” exhibited by the Trump administration, Warner said, adding, “This is not a one-off.”
Gabbard on Tuesday at first declined to say whether she was involved in the group chat. Later, she and Ratcliffe insisted that no classified information was shared in the chat — a claim that triggered an incredulous backlash from the committee’s liberals.
“What if that had been made public that morning before the attack took place?” Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) asked in the hearing, referring to the details of the bombing plan.
Gabbard, who did not answer, repeated that no classified information had been shared in the text chain. But as the hearing progressed, she and Ratcliffe added caveats to their answers, saying that no classified information under U.S. intelligence agencies’ purview was discussed.
Gabbard told King she would “defer to the secretary of defense, the National Security Council on that question” of whether targeting information should have been classified.
“You’re the head of the intelligence community,” King said, apparently baffled. “You’re supposed to know about classifications.”
Ratcliffe, too, tried to defer to the defense secretary on whether information about the timing of a U.S. military operation in a foreign country could endanger Americans.
By discussing the timing of a military campaign, they were revealing “the time period during which enemy air defenses could target U.S. aircrews flying in enemy airspace,” Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Georgia) said.
“I don’t know that,” Ratcliffe said.
“You do know that,” Ossoff countered.
The security breach has presented an uncomfortable test for Republicans, who have maintained an unflinching public loyalty to President Donald Trump, even as many GOP centrists have privately expressed alarm about his administration’s recent policy decisions and rhetoric.
On Tuesday, Senate Republicans appeared committed to avoiding public discussion of the leak entirely, leaving to Democrats the questions as to why the administration’s top national security officials were planning a secret military operation over a commercial messaging app and how they failed what Warner called the “security hygiene 101” task of checking who was included in the text chain.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, conspicuously avoided any mention of the Signal debacle as he opened Tuesday’s hearing and later sought to defend the government’s witnesses as Democrats grilled them on the inconsistencies in their testimony.
Sens. Mike Rounds (R-South Dakota) and Todd Young (R-Indiana), two moderates on the committee, both said they would pose questions about the Signal episode during the subsequent classified section of the hearing.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who has challenged the administration on certain issues, called in sick Tuesday.
The annual global threats hearing comes as Trump and the Democrats are sharply at odds over which issues and adversaries present the greatest security risks to the U.S.
Trump has emphasized foreign drug cartels as the country’s No. 1 threat and has focused his foreign policy agenda so far on seeking to establish U.S. economic independence via tariffs, while promising territorial expansion. In his first two months in office, Trump has threatened to annex sovereign countries and territories, including Greenland, Canada, Panama and the Gaza Strip.
He has also moved to restore relations with Russia, praising President Vladimir Putin as a would-be peacemaker and publicly ridiculing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a televised Oval Office meeting. He then temporarily withheld weapons and intelligence from Ukraine in its battle against an illegal Russian invasion of its territory.
The annual threat report released Tuesday by Gabbard’s office for the first time puts foreign drug traffickers atop the list of security threats facing the U.S.
Gabbard, in her prepared remarks, briefly mentioned Russia as a threat, but focused on its nuclear weapons arsenal and cyber capabilities.
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colorado) seized on Russia’s considerable cyber powers as he questioned Ratcliffe about the Signal chat on Yemen. “Did you know that the president’s Middle East adviser was in Moscow on this thread while you were, as director of the CIA, participating in this in this thread? Were you aware of that? Are you aware of that today?” Bennet said, referring to reports that Trump envoy Steve Witkoff was in Russia and part of the chat group.
“You need to do better! You need to do better!” a visibly angry Bennet shouted at the spy chiefs.
Trump has pushed for a ceasefire in the three-year-old Russia-Ukraine war. Zelensky has shown a willingness, under pressure from Trump, to make concessions in that process. But U.S. intelligence reports, including one in early March, assessed that Putin has not veered from his maximalist goal of dominating Ukraine.
Iran this month rejected a Trump ultimatum that ordered it to negotiate a deal to end its nuclear program. U.S. intelligence agencies assess that Israel may launch military strikes against Iran’s nuclear sites in the coming months. But they also, Gabbard said, assess that Iran has not restarted efforts to build a nuclear weapon, despite enriching uranium that could fuel such a device.
Trump inherited two wars dating to the Biden administration in which U.S. backing has been critical, but Democrats have warned that the president’s actions and rhetoric have only deepened the threats to U.S. national security. They also charge that he has hindered law enforcement officers’ ability to interdict domestic and foreign terrorist plots by slashing personnel at the FBI, CIA and Pentagon, and has paused or eradicated departments and policies meant to prevent corrupt practices and foreign influence in U.S. politics.
They have accused him of endangering critical alliances and intelligence-sharing between allies, and strengthening China’s influence by shuttering foreign-assistance programs in strategic regions abroad.
“This all kind of rolls together,” Warner said in an interview Monday. “None of this makes America safer.”
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) said at Tuesday’s hearing, “I’m of the view that there ought to be resignations, starting with the national security adviser and the secretary of defense.”
The text chain revealed in Monday’s article in the Atlantic — and the apparently accidental inclusion of a journalist on that chain — was so “reckless,” the journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, wrote, that even he had trouble believing at first that it was real.
“Obviously we’ve got to be careful with these things,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) told reporters Tuesday morning about the use of third-party messaging apps. But he, like other Republicans, dismissed the seriousness of the episode.
In fact, the outcome of the Yemen strikes actually showed the administration is doing a good job, Johnson said. “That was a successful mission. We’re taking out Houthi terrorists,” he said. And the White House has “acknowledged that there was an error, and they corrected it.”
Mariana Alfaro contributed to this report.
