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White House looking into report U.S. officials text war plans to journalist - National | Globalnews.ca

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The Atlantic editor-in-chief for The Atlantic reported the text chain contained details of upcoming military strikes in Yemen .

The National Security Council is looking into how a journalist’s number was added to the chain in the Signal group chat.

It was not immediately clear if the specifics of the military operation were classified, but they often are kept secure to protect service members.

Signal was most commonly used to communicate what they internally referred to as “tippers” to notify someone when they were away from the office or traveling overseas that they should check their “high side” inbox for a classified message.

The app was sometimes also used by officials during the Biden administration to communicate about scheduling of sensitive meetings or classified phone calls.

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