Signal chat leak could have endangered troops: Ex-NSC spox
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() The Trump administration is facing backlash after a journalist from The Atlantic was added to a group chat on Signal where officials were discussing an attack on Yemen’s Houthis.

If the Trump team is using Signal for “sensitive conversations” involving government business, it begs the question if something like this could happen again, Sean Savett, a former National Security Council spokesperson under President Joe Biden, said on ” Now.”

“This is incredibly serious,” Savett said.

Not only could they have endangered United States troops but also the mission itself, Savett added.

“Not only could those targets have gone to ground and escaped justice, but we also could have seen the Houthis try to use their very capable anti-aircraft systems to try to shoot down U.S. fighter pilots, and that would have been a horrific, horrific scenario,” Savett said.

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