The Atlantic published on Wednesday a new article that details the alleged information about the recent US attacks in Yemen that, he says, was accidentally shared with his journalist through the signal of the high -level members of the National Security Council of President Donald Trump.
The monitoring article in the Atlantic disputes the administration’s claims that information classified in the group was not accidentally shared, to which the chief editor Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added. The officials within the administration are “trying to minimize the importance of the messages that were shared,” said the article.
The article suggested that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth updated the members of the “Houthi PC Small Group” signal chat in climate conditions “favorable” before the air attacks planned in the hutis leaders and other objectives in Yemen.
The article said that Hegseth also notified the group of a planned timeline for F-18 Strike, MQ-9 Reaper Drones and Tomahawk Cruise Missile aircraft flights that launched for the mission.
“This is when the first pumps will definitely fall, waiting for objectives ‘based on the’ previous trixture,” Hegseth wrote before the operation, referring to the “1415” or 2:15 time mark, according to the Atlantic.
The US Central Command. UU. Confirmed those details on the day of the strikes by releasing images, as well as other images that show the take-off of the F-18 marina of the USS Harry S Truman carrier in the Red Sea.
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief, The Atlantic, speaks during the global conference of the Milken Institute on May 3, 2022 in Beverly Hills, California.
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The White House has insisted that communications in the group chat were not war plans, that the information did not classify and criticized the Atlantic journalist who detailed the account, although he has not played the authenticity of the messages.
“There are no locations. There are no sources & Methods. There are no war plans. Foreign partners had already been notified that the strikes were imminent. In a nutshell: President Trump is protecting the United States and our interests, “National Security Advisor Michael Waltz Posted in X.
“No one sends text messages to war plans,” Hegseth said Wednesday. “I noticed that this morning something came out that does not resemble war plans. And in fact, they even changed the title of the attack plans because they know they are not war plans.”
“It is very clear that Goldberg overshadowed what he had”, vice president JD Vance Posted in x.
Goldberg, during an interview with ABC News Live Kyra Phillips, responded to the rejection of the administration.
“They have obviously decided, instead of simply saying: ‘Yes, we had a security violation and we will try to connect that violation and improve next time,’ they have decided to blame the guy who invited the conversation,” Goldberg said.
“It’s a bit strange behavior, sincerely,” Goldberg continued. “I don’t know why they are acting like this, except to think that they know how serious a national security violation is and, therefore, they have to divert it and push it to the guy, again, they invited the chat, namely me.”
Goldberg criticized the administration for pursuing the description of the Atlantic of the chat as war plans, calling it “semantic games.”
“They are throwing all these smoke quausers to avoid being interrogated about why they were so reckless that they had sensitive conversations as it is in the signal and why they invited a journalist and did not even know that a journalist was there,” he said.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, recognized on Wednesday that “obviously someone made a big mistake,” but insisted that the general mission was never compromised.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks at the defense personnel accounting agency at the Pearl Harbor-Hickam Joint Base, Hawaii, March 25, 2025.
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ABC News collaborator Mick Mulroy, a former senior official of the Pentagon and CIA officer, said the information shared in the commercial application seemed to detail an ongoing operation that should not be shared publicly.
In Mulroy’s opinion, “it is highly classified and protected. The dissemination would compromise the operation and put the lives at risk. Together with nuclear and undercover operations, this information is the most protected.”
The initial history in the Atlantic only described the operational part of the message chain, but did not disseminate details.
According to the article, Hegseth then sent a message to the group with updates after the action, notifying the members that the specific hutis leaders had been located and identified immediately before attacking in their locations.
Democrats demand answers after the accident while expressing alarm on the management of national administration security information.
Democratic representative Jim Himes, the classification members of the Chamber Intelligence Committee, criticized the senior intelligence officials as they appeared for an audience on Wednesday.
“I think it is for the amazing grace of God that we are not in mourning to dead pilots at this time,” Himes said. “Two general officers sitting at the table and the people who work for all of you know that if you had installed and participated in the chat of the signal, they would have gone, and you know that there is only one response to an error of this magnitude.”
“You apologize, you possess and stop everything until you can find out what went wrong, what went wrong and how it could not happen again. That is not what happened,” said Himes.
