DONALD Trump’s under-fire defence chief hit back with a foul-mouthed blast yesterday after full details of his part in an astonishing battle plan security breach were released.
The US President had said no sensitive information was leaked when a journalist was added by mistake to a group chat of top officials planning attacks on Houthi rebels in Yemen earlier this month.
US President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defence Pete HegsethAFP via Getty Images
But The Atlantic editor Jeff Goldberg responded by publishing a list of aircraft and timings US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth had posted via the Signal app.
Mr Hegseth then tried to dismiss it, saying the “so-called war plans include no names, no targets, no locations, no units, no routes, no sources, no methods, no classified information”.
He added: “Those are some really s****y war plans.
“This only proves one thing: Jeff Goldberg has never seen a war plan.”
Several lawmakers called for Mr Hegseth to be axed.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted that “someone made a big mistake”.
Meanwhile, UK Defence Secretary John Healey took a subtle dig at the US after the chat criticised “freeloading Europe”.
He said: “The thing about being close allies and good friends is if you’ve got concerns or challenges, you raise them, but you don’t do so in public.”
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