Israel complains about SignalGate leak after giving US key intelligence used in Houthi strike: report
Israel provided the US with critical intelligence from an on-the-ground source in Yemen that was later leaked as part of the SignalGate scandal, according to a report.In the Signal messages, national security adviser Mike Waltz told top Trump administration officials that intelligence had a “positive ID” of the Houthis’ “top missile guy” entering a building that was hit in the US airstrikes.That message was revealed by the Atlantic this week after its editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently added to a private Signal chat on March 11 to plan out the strike.
Privately, Israeli officials complained to Washington that Waltz’s message about that intelligence went public, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a US official.“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 in the leaked message, which came shortly after the March 15 strike against the Houthis began.Waltz didn’t describe the source of that positive ID and earlier in the leaked chat claimed that Washington received “multiple positive ID[s].” In addition to the Israeli source in Yemen, the US had evidence from surveillance drones that the strikes were successful, according to the report.
The revelation about the Israeli source comes as the Trump administration is trying to fend off accusations that classified information was shared in the leaked Signal messages.During hearings before the Senate and House Intelligence Committees this week, director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe argued that they did not personally shared classified material on the chat.
“Senator, I’ll reiterate that there was no classified material that was shared,” Gabbard said at one point.Gabbard and Ratcliffe suggested that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who shared specific details about US attack plans against the Houthis would’ve been the one to determin...