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Group
chat planning for Houthi strike was ’mistake,’ Johnson says
The speaker
said the White House would “make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
Meredith Lee
Hill
03/24/2025,
5:17pm ET
SpeakerMike
Johnson said Monday that top White House national security officials made a
“mistake” in sharing secret war plans over an unsecured Signal chat —
including, inadvertently, with a journalist — but said he believed the matter
would be quickly addressed.
“Clearly, I
think the White House has acknowledged it’s a mistake,” Johnson told reporters
Tuesday, adding that he expected that “it will tighten up and make sure it
doesn’t happen again.”
Johnson said
he had just spoken with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office while
attending a White House event with Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry.
The text
exchanges mistakenly sent to and reported by Atlantic Editor Jeffrey Goldberg
involved Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
national security adviser Mike Waltz and Vice President JD Vance, among others,
discussing impending strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen who have threatened
shipping lanes to and from the Suez Canal.
Johnson said
they showed Trump officials “executing” their jobs “with precision.” He added,
“They’re gonna make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
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