After the gaffe of Trump administration officials, the CIA chief reacts

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent war plans for future military strikes in Yemen to a Signal group chat that included Atlantic newspaper journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, who had been mistakenly added to the group by national security adviser Mike Waltz.

John Ratcliffe, the director of the CIA, has stated that Mike Waltz, the national security adviser, has requested "through the application a coordination".

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"A CIA officer was not operating in secret. I shared the name of a CIA officer who was not in secret, who was completely open and available, and who often acts as a liaison between the White House and my staff," Ratcliffe explained.

"This coordination was initially established by the national security advisor to provide a point of contact and would then move to the senior level," he added.

Communications from "higher levels" are classified and transmitted through secure communication systems.

Ratcliffe stressed that the chat on the Signal app "was not intended as a replacement for high-level communications," but was created by Mike Waltz to provide points of contact, and he believes that's what happened.

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In response to the question of whether there were details on the weapons and schedules, Ratcliffe said "No, to my knowledge."

Otherwise, US President Donald Trump has stated that there is nothing that can be called a scandal. /Telegraph/