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Signalgate chats vanish from CIA chief phone

The Register · Iain Thomson · last updated

CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s smartphone has almost no trace left of the infamous Signalgate chat – the one in which he and other top US national security officials discussed a secret upcoming military operation in a group Signal conversation a journalist was inadvertently added to.…

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