(LR) US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz speaks to Defense Minister Pete Hegseth when the US President Donald Trump meets the French President Emmanuel Macron on February 24, 2025 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC.
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The Atlantic on Wednesday published the complete text thread from the signal group of the Trump government, which accidentally contained a prominent journalist in discussions about pending US military strikes.
Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor -in -chief of the Atlantic, had held part of the content of the thread in his Bombshell report on Monday by unveiling the plans to carry out attacks on Houthi goals in Yemen.
In this report, Goldberg found that some of the texts contained information that “may be used to harm the American military and intelligence staff” if they had been read by a US opponent.
But Goldberg and his outlet decided to publish the full texts after President Donald Trump and others explained in the group chat on Tuesday that none of the news was classified and said that they did not contain any “war plans”, as the initial heading of the Atlantic said.
The texts of the “Houthi PC Small Group” published on Wednesday morning are not edited, apart from the name of a CIA secret service officer, told the Atlantic.
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The press spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, in an X -Post in the decision of the magazine, to describe the thread as “attack plans” instead of war plans in his latest heading.
“The Atlantic admitted: that was not a war plans,” wrote Leavitt.
“This whole story was another joke written by a Trump hater known for his sensational spin.”
Goldberg later replied directly on Wednesday morning: “I don't even know what that means … What do you argue that an attack is different from a war?”
“She plays a kind of strange semantic game,” he said in an MSNBC interview.
The Trump administration itself has confirmed the correctness of the signal group.
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The director of the National Secret Service Tulsi Gabbard and the CIA director John Ratcliffe, who was included in IT, said on Tuesday in the Senate that the texts were not classified. Trump later said the same thing: “It was not a classified information.”
Defense Minister Pete Hegseth said on Monday: “Nobody wrote war plans. And that's all I have to say.”
Trump's national security advisor, Michael Waltz, who reported Goldberg, invited to the group on Tuesday in the comments that the journalist had somehow “intentionally” added.
Waltz did not provide any evidence of the claim, but said in a Fox News interview that he discussed the matter with Elon Musk and added: “We have the best technical minds that happens with the view.”
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Trump, Waltz, Leavitt and others picked their comments with personal attacks on Goldberg during the week. Numerous officials used the word “joke” as part of their efforts to discredit the reporting of the Atlantic, which some critics and outlets have already referred to as “signal gate”.
Goldberg wrote on Wednesday that the statements by Trump and his officials “led us to the conviction that people should see the texts to draw their own conclusions”.
“There is a clear public interest in disclosing the type of information that Trump consultants contain in non -consecutive communication channels, especially because the high -ranking numbers of the high -ranking administration try to downplay the importance of the shared messages,” he wrote.
The newly unveiled texts show that Hegseth shares operational details about the upcoming Houthi attacks about two hours before the first strike on March 15.
He gave the group – including Goldberg – information about the timing of the attacks and weapons that are to be used, and write: Write: Write:
Team update:
Time now (1144et): The weather is cheap. I have just confirmed that we have a mission start for mission.
1215et: F-18S Start (1st strike package)
1345: “Trigger-based” F-18 1st strike window begins (the target terrorist is @ his well-known location, so should be on time-even strikes start (MQ-9S).
1410: More F-18S Start (2nd strike package)
1415: Strike drones on the goal (this is when the first bombs will definitely fall until former “trigger -based” goals are pending)
1536 f-18 2. Strike begins-Tomahawks started in the first lake.
Goldberg wrote in the report on Wednesday: “If this text had been received by someone who is hostile to American interests – or just someone who is only indiscreet and with access to social media – the Houthi's time would have had time to prepare for a surprising attack on its strongholds.”
“The consequences for American pilots could be catastrophic,” he wrote.
Gabard, Hegseth and Waltz defended the signal texts by claiming that the discussions did not affect “sources and methods” or certain other details.
However, Gabard admitted during a hearing on Wednesday that Goldberg's admission to the thread was “a mistake” and that the conversation “was open and sensitive”.
Vice President JD Vance, who was also on the Signal Thread, wrote on X after the texts were published: “It is very clear that Goldberg was oversized what he had.”
Democrats reacted to the reporting of the Atlantic with angry outrage. Sens. Mark Warner, D-VA., And Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., Both call Hegseth to step down.
“This is what happens if you insert unrestricted people into important jobs in which there are life at stake,” said Kelly in an explanation.
Trump proposed on Tuesday that nobody would be released to use signal to discuss the plans for attack, or because he incorrectly added Goldberg to the sensitive discussions.
“We examined it pretty carefully,” he said.
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