Bernd Debusmann Jr
A discussion by high-ranking US security officials about US air strikes on Yemen has been published in full by the Atlantic magazine.
The group chat on the Signal app mistakenly included the Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.
After holding back some excerpts of the chat in an earlier article, he decided on Wednesday to publish almost the entire exchange after senior officials insisted there was no classified information shared in the group.
Those statements "have led us to believe that people should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions", Goldberg wrote.
The messages, however, need some unpicking. Here are three of them with some analysis.
Timetable for the attack
These messages provide details of the US military's plan for the Yemen strikes - described as a "package", a military term which refers to a set of aircraft, weapons systems and intelligence gathering devices that will participate in an operation.
"The idea this wasn't classified information at the time is inconceivable," Glenn Gerstell, the former general counsel of the National Security Agency (NSA), told the BBC.
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