The main US officials seemed to send a message from a journalist Houthi Strike Plans

The White House has confirmed that a journalist inadvertently added to a group chat in which the United States National Security officials planned a strike against the Houthi Rebel Group.

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of the Atlantic, reported On Monday, he was added to a group of signal messages that included accounts labeled as National Security Advisor of the National House Michael Waltz and Vice President JD Vance.

“At this time, the thread of the message that was reported seems to be authentic,” said Brian Hughes, spokesman for the National Security Council, in a statement to the BBC. “We are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain.

“The thread is a demonstration of the deep and reflective political coordination between the senior officials,” he said.

President Donald Trump told journalists on Monday afternoon that he was not aware of Atlantic magazine.

March 15, Ee. Uu Which described as a “decisive and powerful” series of air attacks against the hutis in Yemen.

Four days before, on March 11, Goldberg writes that he received a connection request in the signal of the encrypted messaging application of an account that was intended to be Mr. Waltz.

Washington’s journalists and officials use Signal due to the safe nature of their communications, the ability to create alias and send messages of disappearance.

Two days later, Goldberg said he was added to a signal chat entitled “Houthi PC Small Group.”

A series of accounts were included that seemed to belong to members of the Cabinet and National Security officials in the Chat, Goldberg reported.

“JD Vance” accounts, the name of the vice president; “Pete Hegesh”, the Secretary of Defense; and “John Ratcliffe”, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency; They were among the names in the chat. The senior national security officials of several agencies also seemed to be added.

At a time during communication on strikes, the account labeled as “JD Vance” seemed to disagree with Trump, Goldberg reported.

“I am not sure that the president is aware of how inconsistent this is this with his message in Europe at this time,” Vance’s account wrote at approximately 8:15 on March 14.

“There is a greater risk that we see a moderate to severe increase in oil prices.

“I am willing to support the consensus of the team and maintain these concerns for myself.

“But there is a strong argument to delay this per month, do the messaging work on why this matters, see where the economy is, etc.”

In a statement to the BBC on Monday, Vance spokesman William Martin said that the vice president “unequivocally supports the foreign policy of this administration.

“The president and the vice president have had subsequent conversations about this matter and are completely agreement,” Martin said.

Goldberg writes that initially “he had very strong doubts that this text group was real, because he could not believe that national security leadership of the United States would communicate in a signal about the imminent war plans.”

However, Mr. Goldberg reports that he continued to see the conversation at play.

On March 15, he writes that he was sitting in a supermarket parking lot, observing signal communications on a strike.

When Goldberg reviewed X to obtain updates on Yemen, he wrote, he saw explosions reports in the capital city of Sanaa.

The Trump administration launched strikes on March 15. In a real social publication, Trump wrote that “financed by Iran, Hutis thugs have fired missiles to US planes and attacked our troops and allies.”

The president wrote that the “piracy, violence and terrorism of the hutis” had cost “billions” and put life at risk.

A Houthi official published in X that 53 people had been killed, BBC reported.

Publicly, Trump administration officials moved on television to talk about strikes.

“We simply hit them with an overwhelming force and put Iran in warning that enough is enough,” Waltz said in ABC News.

Goldberg reports that officials also discussed Europe’s potential to pay US protection of key shipping lanes.

“Either now or several weeks from now on, it will have to be the United States reopening these shipping lanes,” wrote the Waltz account on March 14.

The message continued that at Trump’s request, his team was working with the Department of Defense and the State Department “to determine how to compile the associated cost and impose them on Europeans.”