"Signalgate" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2025 March 25, Jack Blanchard, “Playbook: Signalgate”, in Politico:",
          "text": "As a story, Signalgate is more than just a serious breach of national security. It’s colorful, it’s visual, it’s easy to understand and it raises the most dangerous charge of all for any government — one of rank incompetence.",
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          "ref": "2025 March 27, Noah Shachtman, “America Can’t Keep a Secret”, in The New York Times, page A22:",
          "text": "In SCIFs, the secure rooms where Washington officials conduct their most sensitive conversations, phones aren’t even allowed in the door. The people at the center of Signalgate — the national security adviser, Michael Waltz; the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth; the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard; to name a few — all know this.",
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          "ref": "2025 March 27, Jimmy Kimmel, quotee, “Jimmy Kimmel on Signalgate: ‘This operation was about as secretive as a Fortnite Twitch stream’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Jimmy Kimmel on Republicans’ reaction to Signalgate: ‘How many times do you have to repeat a lie before it becomes true? I guess we’re going to find out.’",
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        "A security incident around the United States government discussing classified information on unsecured devices via the messaging app Signal, publicized due to the chief editor of a news magazine having been added by the National Security Advisor on the 13th of March 2025 to a group planning military strikes against the Houthis."
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        "(US politics, colloquial) A security incident around the United States government discussing classified information on unsecured devices via the messaging app Signal, publicized due to the chief editor of a news magazine having been added by the National Security Advisor on the 13th of March 2025 to a group planning military strikes against the Houthis."
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        "(US politics, colloquial) A security incident around the United States government discussing classified information on unsecured devices via the messaging app Signal, publicized due to the chief editor of a news magazine having been added by the National Security Advisor on the 13th of March 2025 to a group planning military strikes against the Houthis."
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