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Summary:


President Trump's Ukraine and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff was in Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, when he was included in a group chat with more than a dozen other top administration officials — and inadvertently, one journalist — on the messaging app Signal, a CBS News analysis of open-source flight information and Russian media reporting has revealed.

Russia has repeatedly tried to compromise Signal, a popular commercial messaging platform that many were shocked to learn senior Trump administration officials had used to discuss sensitive military planning.

Witkoff arrived in Moscow shortly after noon local time on March 13, according to data from the flight tracking website FlightRadar24, and Russian state media broadcast video of his motorcade leaving Vnukovo International Airport shortly after. About 12 hours later, he was added to the "Houthi PC small group" chat on Signal, along with other top Trump administration officials, to discuss an imminent military operation against the Houthis in Yemen, according to The Atlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg, who was included on the chat for reasons that remain unclear.


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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

What other channels was he in? Was he directing from another channel while being directed by Putin?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Tom Clancy go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

istodaythedaytanksrollinwashington.com says no.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Well now......

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Good job. Keep up the folo. It's the only way to have repercussions, to keep this story alive through Trump's attempts to supersede it with media-bait nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia

Very good news coming out of the Trump administration for once.

IMO, instead of America’s envoy, they should just call up Valery Gerasimov and Aleksandr Dvornikov to get them brought into these meetings in person so them and the Americans can share worthwhile experiences and expertise with each other which would only mutually benefit both countries.