Trump officials accuse journalist of lying after Signal app leak published in full
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What is the main topic of this episode?
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Thursday, the 27th of March, these are our main stories. Senior officials in the Trump administration have been grilled in Congress over how planned US airstrikes on Yemen were discussed in a group chat that accidentally included a prominent journalist. The military leader of Sudan says the army has regained full control of the capital Khartoum after nearly two years of fighting against the rival RSF group. Brazil's Supreme Court says there's enough evidence for the former right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro to stand trial for allegedly plotting a coup. Also in this podcast, the dog that went missing on Australia's Kangaroo Island.
She is definitely alive. You don't get too many little Dachshunds running around with pink collars on over here.
We begin in Washington with the continuing row over what some are calling Signalgate, in which sensitive texts discussing planned airstrikes on the Houthis in Yemen were accidentally shared on the Signal messaging app with a journalist. The Trump administration has dismissed the revelation of the leak as a hoax and insisted the chat didn't include any classified information.
What is 'Signalgate' and why is it controversial?
In response, the editor of the Atlantic magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, who received the texts, has now published the whole lot, including discussions of specific operational details. Meanwhile, on Wednesday, for a second day, the US House Select Committee on Intelligence grilled top security officials about the leak. The Democratic Representative Jason Crow demanded accountability.
It is completely outrageous to me, completely outrageous to me that the administration officials come before us today with impunity. No acceptance of responsibility. Excuse after excuse after excuse. While we send our men and women downrange to do incredibly difficult, incredibly dangerous things on our behalf. And yet nobody is willing to come to us and say this was wrong.
Who is Jeffrey Goldberg and why is he involved?
This was a breach of security and we won't do it again.
But the head of US National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, continued to maintain that the messages that had been shared were not classified.
The conversation was candid and sensitive. But as the President National Security Advisor stated, no classified information was shared. There were no sources, methods, locations or war plans that were shared. This was a standard update to the National Security Cabinet.
Die US-Sekretärin Marco Rubio sagt jetzt, dass es ein großer Fehler war, einen Journalisten in die Signal-Chat-Room zu einbringen. Aber die White House hat immer wieder zurückgezogen. Hier ist die Presse-Sekretärin Caroline Leavitt.
I would defer you to the Secretary of Defense's statement he put out this morning. There were various reasons he listed, things that were not included in that messaging thread, that were not classified. And again, going back to the American public, do you trust the Secretary of Defense, who was nominated for this role, voted by the United States Senate into this role, who has served in combat, honorably served our nation in uniform? Or do you trust Jeffrey Goldberg, who is a registered Democrat and an anti-Trump sensationalist reporter? I spoke to our senior North America correspondent Gary O'Donoghue, who was in that briefing room.
Es gab einen riesigen Rücktritt von der Pressekretärin Caroline Leavitt in der Briefung. Sie ging wirklich nach dem Journalisten, der im Zentrum war, Jeffrey Goldberg. Sie sprach über ihn als Trump-Hater, als Sensationalist, als Demokrat. Sie versuchte wirklich, so viel wie möglich, ihn zu schmieren. Und das kam auch von einigen anderen, die in diesem Bereich involviert waren.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic of this episode?
0:58–2:20
2
What is 'Signalgate' and why is it controversial?
2:20–3:11
3
Who is Jeffrey Goldberg and why is he involved?
3:11–5:05
4
What are the implications of the leaked messages for the Trump administration?
5:05–12:42
5
How does the Yemen conflict impact local and international perspectives?
12:42–23:03
6
What is happening in Sudan's ongoing conflict?
23:03–32:24
7
Why is Jair Bolsonaro standing trial?
32:24–34:43