Hegseth and Rubio caught discussing classified matters on Signal app

On Mar. 25, 2025, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz accidentally added Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat where participants discussed Operation Rough Rider, the Yemen military operation against the Houthis (Daily Beast; Fox News; Wikipedia)

The Atlantic and Washington Post reported that the Signal group chat listed 18 participants, including Vice President JD Vance, Cabinet secretaries, and intelligence directors (Fox News; Washington Post; TIME)

American Oversight filed suit alleging that using Signal to discuss active military operations without preserving records violated the Federal Records Act (Daily Beast; DefenseScoop; Wikipedia)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s messages included a timeline marking 1345 ET as the 'Trigger Based' F-18 first strike window and 1410 ET for the second F-18 strike package (Al Jazeera; Washington Post; Wikipedia)

Senators Roger Wicker and Jack Reed requested a Pentagon Inspector General investigation into whether classified information was shared over unclassified networks (DefenseScoop; NPR; Wikipedia)