Fox News' Brit Hume on Signal chat leak: “Fortunately, it was leaked to an American citizen”
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From the March 24, 2025, edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier
JOHN ROBERTS (HOST): I want to also ask you about this story that exploded here in Washington, D.C. about high level White House officials including the national security adviser, the defense secretary, the secretary of state and others being on a Signal text chain that just happened to inadvertently include the editor and chief of the Atlantic Magazine and what they were talking about was the coming strikes against the Houthis back on the 15th of March.
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This was a big misfire.
BRIT HUME (GUEST): That's for sure. And this, of course, is, you know, details of war plans, which is what we're talking about here, about a military operation, are about as sensitive as things get, so this was, you know, a major leak. Fortunately, it was leaked to an American citizen. While he might be considered an enemy of the administration in some quarters, he certainly is not an enemy of the United States. And he did not disclose anything very sensitive fortunately.
I guess what happened is this writer Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic was in the contacts file of Mike Waltz who inadvertently included him on an email chain from the signal application and out the thing went. There'll be investigations about this, I think it's going to be going on going forward, don't you think, John?
ROBERTS: Yeah, the president said he didn't know anything about it earlier today. I'm sure he knows a lot more by now.