‘Heads are exploding’: How security experts see the Signal war-plan breach

President Trump speaks alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office on March 21. Days earlier, Hegseth shared details about overseas war plans in a group chat on Signal, an encrypted, open-source messaging app, according to The Atlantic. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

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An extraordinary breach of U.S. security is stunning security and intelligence veterans, after a journalist was added to a Trump administration group chat on Signal, where senior leaders discussed plans for a military strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen.

The breach left military and intelligence experts asking the same questions as the public: Why

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