On ThursdaY, Reuters published a photo depicting then-United States national security adviser Mike Waltz checking his phone during a cabinet meeting held by President Trump in the White House. If you enlarge the portion of the image that captures Waltz's screen, it seems to show him using the end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal. But if you look more closely, a notification on the screen refers to the app as 'TM SGNL.' During a White House cabinet meeting on Wednesday, then, Waltz was apparently using an Israeli-made app called TeleMessage Signal to message with people who appear to be top US officials, including JD Vance, Marco Rubio, and Tulsi Gabbard. After senior Trump administration cabinet members used vanishing Signal messages to coordinate March military strikes in Yemen'and accidentally included the editor in chief of The Atlantic in the group chat'the 'SignalGate' scandal highlighted concerning breaches of traditional government 'operational security' protocol as well...
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