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(LR) The United States National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, talks to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth when the president of the United States, Donald Trump, meets with French president Emmanuel Macron in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2025.
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The Atlantic on Wednesday Published the full text thread Trump administration Sign Group that accidentally included a prominent journalist in discussions about us. Military strikes.
Jeffrey Goldberg, the chief editor of the Atlantic, had retained some of the thread contents in his Pump report On Monday revealing that it had been collected in plans to carry out attacks against Houthi objectives in Yemen.
Goldberg pointed out in that report that some of the texts contained information that “it could have been used to damage American military and intelligence personnel,” if they had been read by an American adversary.
But Goldberg and his departure decided to publish the full texts after the president Donald Trump And others in the group chat declared on Tuesday that none of the messages were classified and said they did not contain “war plans,” as the initial head of the Atlantic said.
The texts of the “small group of the Houthi PC” published on Wednesday morning are not written, except for the name of an intelligence officer of the CIA, said the Atlantic.
White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt in a X publication He found himself in the decision of the magazine to describe the thread as “attack plans”, instead of war plans, in his last holder.
“The Atlantic has granted: these were not war plans,” Leavitt wrote.
“This whole story was another deception written by a Trump enemy who is known for his sensationalist turn.”
Goldberg responded directly later on Wednesday morning: “I don’t even know what that means … what are they arguing, that an attack is different from a war?”
“She is playing a kind of strange semantic game,” he said in a MSNBC interview.
The Trump administration itself has confirmed the veracity of the signal group.
The director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, who was included in it, said in the testimony of the Senate on Tuesday that the texts were not classified. Later, Trump said the same thing: “It was not classified information.”
The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, said Monday: “No one was sending text messages to war plans. And that is all I have to say about it.”
Trump National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, who, according to the reports, invited Goldberg to the group, suggested in comments on Tuesday that somehow the journalist may have “deliberately.”
Waltz did not provide evidence of the claim, but said in a Fox News interview that he discussed the matter with ELON ALMIZCLEAdding: “We have the best technical minds looking at how this happened.”
Trump, Waltz, Leavitt and others, including the vice president JD Vancethat he was also in the thread of the signal: he has splashed his comments with personal attacks against Goldberg.
Goldberg wrote on Wednesday that Trump’s statements and his officials “have led us to believe that people should see the texts to reach their own conclusions.”
“There is a clear public interest in revealing the type of information that Trump’s advisors included in the non -guaranteed communications channels, especially because the figures of the senior administration are trying to minimize the importance of the messages that were shared,” he wrote.
Recently revealed texts show Hegseth sharing operational details about Houthi attacks pending approximately two hours before the first strike occurred on March 15.
He gave the group, which included Goldberg, information about the time of attacks and weapons that will be used, writing:
Team update:
Time now (1144et): The weather is favorable. I just confirmed that W/Centcom are a launch of the mission.
“1215et: F-18s launch (first strike package)”
“1345: The F-18 window of the first attack window ‘based on trigger’ begins (Target Terrorist is its known location, so it should be on time, also, Strike Drones DRONES (MQ-9S)”
“1410: More F-18 launch (2nd attack package)”
“1415: Strike drones in the objective (it is when the first pumps will definitely fall, pending objectives ‘based on the trigger’ previous)”
“1536 The 2nd Strike begins, too, CRASS was also launched. Tomahawks.”
Goldberg on Wednesday’s report wrote: “If this text had been received by someone hostile to US interests, or someone simply indiscreet, and with access to social networks, the hutis would have had time to prepare for what was destined to be a surprise attack in their strengths.”
“The consequences for American pilots could have been catastrophic,” he wrote.
Vance wrote in x After the texts were published, “Goldberg is very clear surviving what he had.”
Democrats have reacted to Atlantic reports with furious outrage. Sens. Mark Warner, D-V., And Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., They have asked Hegseth to resign.
“This is what happens when you put people not qualified in important jobs where lives are at stake,” Kelly said in a statement.
Trump suggested on Tuesday that no one would be fired for using Signal to discuss attack plans, or by erroneously adding Goldberg to sensitive discussions.
“We have investigated it,” he said.
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