Senators interrogate US intelligence community after Atlantic editor was added to group chat on Yemen war plans

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Democratic senators demanded answers from leaders of the US intelligence community on Tuesday on how the top editor of the Atlantic was added to a group chat discussing airstrikes in Yemen, arguing that the “sloppy, careless” leak put national security at risk.

The unusual story broke on Monday, when the Atlantic published a piece by editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg who said he had been added to the group on messaging app Signal, and watched as accounts that appeared to match top Trump administration officials, including vice-president JD Vance and secretary of state Marco Rubio, debated and then coordinated a wave of bombings targeting the Houthis in Yemen.