 "Israel's sensitive intelligence to the US during Houthi strikes discussed in leaked Signal chat: Report")
As the White House struggles to navigate the Signal chat leak scandal , a bombshell report suggested that Israel provided sensitive intelligence to the US in its recent operations against Houthis in Yemen. According to an exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal, Israel gathered sensitive information from a human source in Yemen and described it to US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz in an unclassified Signal chat with other officials from US President Donald Trump’s administration.
Shortly after the US strike began in Yemen , Waltz texted in the chat that a key target of the attacks, a Houthi missile expert, was located entering “his girlfriend’s” building, which he mentioned was destroyed in the strikes. A US official close to the matter told WSJ that following the leak, Israeli officials have privately complained to the US officials that Waltz’s texts have become public.
The latest information that Israel reportedly helped the US to track Houthi militants in Yemen highlights the sensitivity of some of the disclosures in the group chat. The report is also coming at a time when almost all Trump officials have held the contention that no classified information was shared on the Signal chat, a publicly available nongovernmental app.
Officials keep mum
In the leaked chat, US Vice President JD Vance was reportedly seen asking Waltz the immediate results of the US strikes on Houthis. In response to this, the national security adviser shared that the Houthi missile expert was targeted in the attack. “The first target—their top missile guy—we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it is now collapsed,” Waltz wrote, without disclosing the source of the information.
While Waltz did not reveal the source of information, he mentioned in another text that the US has “multiple positive IDs”. The name of the Israeli source in Yemen was also not revealed in the chats. However, Trump officials did discuss how the US also received intelligence about the targets struck in the attack from surveillance drones flying over Yemen.
Impact Shorts
More ShortsWhen WSJ asked Waltz’s office if it was Israel which provided the US with information about the Houthi missile expert, National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said, “No classified information was included in the thread.” He went on to echo the comments made by National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said, “No classified information was included in the thread.”
Meanwhile, Israel’s prime minister’s office, the Israeli embassy in Washington and other Trump officials declined to comment on the matter. Amid the chaos, current and former US officials argued that intelligence leaks could compromise foreign intelligence sources and make other nations reluctant to share such sensitive information. In response to these assertions, Trump officials have said that in recent weeks, they have redoubled their efforts to prevent leaks of classified information.
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