Taylor Swift's Name Drops Into Hearing On War Plan Group Chat Blunder

A senator referenced a foiled terrorist plot at a Swift concert while discussing the Signal message fiasco that rocked Washington, D.C., this week.

From pop culture to global security matters, Taylor Swift’s impact knows no bounds.

During a Tuesday Senate hearing in Washington D.C., the pop star’s name surfaced during a serious conversation about the scandal involving a group chat where high-ranking government officials discussed plans to bomb Yemen and disparaged European allies, all after accidentally adding The Atlantic’s editor Jeffrey Goldberg to the private text chain.

Swift was mentioned while Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) underscored the importance of the U.S. sharing classified information with foreign partners.

“America first cannot mean America alone,” Warner told the Senate Intelligence Committee. “The intelligence we gather to keep Americans safe depends on a lot of allies around the world who have access to sources we don’t have.”

To illustrate his point, Warner cited a thwarted terrorist plot that targeted one of Swift’s concerts in Vienna last summer.