Andrew McCarthy said that the Trump administration cannot deny the messages on the Signal thread were classified.
Fox News contributor Andrew McCarthy ripped into the Trump administration’s claims that the information shared in a Signal app chat among high-ranking Cabinet members and a journalist was not classified.Why It Matters
Social media erupted in the aftermath of reports of the communications held by Vice President JD Vance, Hegseth, national security adviser Mike Waltz and Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, among others.
Goldberg says he was included in the message thread with President Donald Trump officials on the encrypted messaging app Signal earlier this month. The journalist reported that the text exchange included U.S. military plans involving airstrikes against the Houthis, Iran-backed rebels in Yemen who’ve been launching attacks against commercial vessels in the Red Sea amid a clash over control of shipping routes.
The handling of private military discussions among top officials in Trump’s Cabinet has also triggered significant U.S. security concerns.
Hegseth rebuked Goldberg’s report on Monday, saying, “Nobody was texting war plans, and that’s all I have to say about that.” Waltz also took a swipe at Goldberg on Tuesday, calling him the “bottom scum of journalists.”What To Know
In a New York Post opinion article on Wednesday, McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, called out the administration, saying in part, “It is undeniable, or at least it should be, that ‘information providing advance warning that the US or its allies are preparing an attack’ is to be classified as ‘top secret.
