(LR) US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz will speak with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegses when he meets French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House Oval Office in Washington, DC on February 24, 2025.
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Wednesday Atlantic Ocean The full text thread has been published From the Trump administration signal It was falsely included in the debate over the pending US military strike, including well-known journalists.
Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg withheld some of the contents of his thread Bomb Report On Monday he revealed he was looped into a plan to carry out an attack on the target of Hooty in Yemen.
Goldberg said in the report that some texts contained information that “may have been used to injure American military and intelligence agents.”
However, Goldberg and his outlet decided to release the full text after President Donald Trump and others in the group chat declared Tuesday that the message was not classified, saying it didn’t include a “war plan,” as the Atlantic first headline said.
The text for “Houthi PC Small Group,” released Wednesday morning, has not been edited, except for the name of one CIA intelligence officer, Atlantic said.
White House Press Secretary Caroline Lewitt xPost It is based on the magazine’s decision to describe the thread in its latest headlines as a “plan of attack” rather than a plan of war.
“The Atlantic acknowledged. These were not war plans,” Leavitt wrote.
“This whole story was another hoax written by the Trump hater, famous for his sensational spin.”
Goldberg responded directly late Wednesday morning: “I don’t even know what that means… what are they claiming, and that attacks are different from war?”
“She’s playing some kind of weird semantic game,” he said in an interview with MSNBC.
The Trump administration itself has confirmed the truth behind the signal group.
National Intelligence Director Tarshi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe said in Senate testimony on Tuesday that the text was not classified. Trump later said the same thing, “It wasn’t classified information.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegses said Monday: “No one was texting the war plan. That’s all I have to say about it.”
Trump’s national security adviser Michael Waltz reportedly invited Goldberg to the group, and in his remarks Tuesday suggested that in some way the journalist may have “deliberately” added himself.
Waltz did not provide evidence for this claim, but in an interview with Fox News he discussed the issue with Elon Musk, saying “I have the best technical mind to see how this happened.”
Trump, Waltz, Levitt and others pasted statements in personal attacks on Goldberg throughout the week. Many officials use the term “hoos” as part of their efforts to distrust Atlantic reports of what some critics and outlets already call “Signalgate.”
Goldberg wrote Wednesday that a statement from Trump and his officials “lead us to believe that people should look at the text to reach their conclusions.”
“There is a clear public interest in disclosing the kind of information that includes Trump advisors on unsecured communications channels, especially as senior manager figures try to underestimate the importance of shared messages,” he wrote.
The newly published text shows that Hegseth shares operational details about the pending Houthi attack about two hours before the first strike occurred on March 15th.
He wrote to the group, including Goldberg, about the timing of attacks and weapons to be used.
Team Update:
Current Time (1144et): The weather is advantageous. I just checked Centcom and it’s a match for mission launch.
1215ET: Starting up the F-18S (1st Strike Package)
1345: “Trigger Base” F-18 1st Strike Window begins (target terrorist @ his known location so it must be on time – also launching the Strike Drone (MQ-9S)
1410: Other F-18 releases (second strike package)
1415: Strike drone of the target (this is when the first bomb is definitely falling, and the previous “trigger-based” target is pending)
1536 F-18 The second strike has begun – and also the first sea-based Tomahawks launched.
Goldberg wrote in his report Wednesday: “If this text was received by someone hostile to American interests, or simply ignored and accompanied by access to social media, the Houches would have had the time to prepare for it to be a surprise attack on their base.”
“The outcomes for American pilots may have been catastrophic,” he wrote.
Gabbard, Heggs and Waltz He defended the signal text by claiming that the discussion did not include “sources and methods” or other specific details.
However, Gabbard admitted during his House hearing Wednesday that Goldberg’s inclusion in the thread was “mistakes” and that the conversation was “fun and sensitive.”
Vice President JD Vance was also featured in the signal thread. I wrote it on x After the text was published, “it’s very clear that Goldberg is selling too much of what he had.”
Democrats responded with a ferocious digging to the Atlantic report. D-Va. Officer Mark Warner and Mark Kelly of D-Ariz both called on Heggs to resign.
“This happens when you put people who are not qualified in important jobs where their lives are going well,” Kelly said in a statement.
Trump proposed on Tuesday that no one would be fired for using signals to discuss the attack plan or accidentally adding Goldberg to sensitive debates.
“We mostly considered that,” he said.
