Atlantic published the entire exchange from the White House chat group about the Yemen air strike plan, after their editor -in -chief was mistakenly added to this group.
Magazine Atlantic Today posting screenshots of the whole conversation content in the chat group on the Signal app of the top White House officials. Earlier, this newspaper only published part of the content, due to concerns other exchanges were confidential information related to the US national security.
In this article, the shocking details, including the time of Yemen’s air strike and the type of fighter use that the US uses, are public.
Accordingly, on the day of the US attacked on March 15, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent a message to update the situation. “11h44, the weather is favorable. I have just confirmed to the Central Command that we will perform the campaign,” Mr. Hegseth wrote. At 12:15, the US Defense Secretary announced the first F-18 fighters that were raided in the first attack.
A while later, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz texted the intelligence group to be updated in real time about the results of the attack.
“The first goal, the rocket commander, we have confirmed him to go to the girlfriend’s building and it is now collapsed,” Waltz said at 14h.
“Many F-18 fighters are raided (the second attack),” “Defense Minister Hegseth continued in the chat, or” the MQ-9 drone attacked the target “.
At 15h36, Hegseth announced the second air strike began, opening by launching Tomahawk cruise missiles from battleships at sea.
These messages were sent to everyone in the chat group, including Jeffrey Goldberg, Atlantic Editor, who was accidentally added to the group. Minister Hegseth announced the Houthi air strike and half -hour ambush method before the first US fighters departed and two hours before the first bombs fell to Yemen.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the White House on March 21. Image: Reuters
After Atlantic posted all the contents of the conversation, White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt called this “trick”. Vice President JD Vance said that journalist Goldberg “exaggerated what he had”.
Goldberg on 24/3 said he was accidentally invited to a confidential chat group called “Houthi PC Small Group” on the Signal messaging app on March 13. The chat group consists of US government officials, including Vice President Vance and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, discussing the Houthi ambush campaign in Yemen took place two days later.
The National Security Adviser Waltz took responsibility in the case to reveal the group discussion about the Yemen strike, calling this “shame”, but emphasized that there was no confidential information shared in the chat group.
Defense Minister Hegseth denied sharing confidential information on the chat group with Goldberg participating, confirming “no one has texted the combat plan”. Leavitt also said that there was no confidential document sent to the chat group and Goldberg was only accidentally added.
Atlantic initially did not announce the entire content of the conversation because they wanted to avoid disclosing documents and confidential information could endanger the US military. However, they changed the decision after the CIA Director of CIA Rotcliffe and other officials participated in the chat group on March 25, continued to lower the seriousness of the scandal, telling the National Assembly that there was no confidential information mentioned in the chat group and there was no wrongdoing.
Atlantic on May 26 said they sent an email to whether the White House official had any problems when publishing the rest of the chat. The White House press secretary Leavitt answered that this chat group “has no confidential information” but only “internal and private exchange between senior officials and discuss some sensitive information”.
The CIA spokesman also only asked the newspaper not to publish the names of one of their officials mentioned in the exchange.
The article of Goldberg on Atlantic sparked a wave of controversy. Democrats sent a letter asking the White House to explain, in which a Senator’s group called the American officials’ way of working “overdose to national security”.
Democrats at the Military, Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Supervision Committees of the US House of Representatives also requested the Government to clarify whether the US officials use Signal or non -security civil applications to discuss national security issues.
President Donald Trump spoke out to protect Mr. Waltz in the wave of criticism, and revealed “a Mike’s group” has Goldberg’s number and has added this journalist to the chat group. Mr. Trump confirmed that Goldberg was added to the Signal chat group “no effect” on the Yemen air strike campaign.
Houthi recently announced the continued attack on Israeli -related commercial vessels because Tel Aviv blocked aid in the Gaza Strip. The US military on March 15 launched a large -scale air campaign aimed at Houthi’s positions in Yemen, marking the first time this activity during President Trump’s second term.
The air strike killed at least 53 people and 98 injured. Waltz said on March 23 that the campaign had lowered a series of key commanders of Houthi, including the leading rocket expert of the armed group. He did not identify the targets that were killed.