The Atlantic magazine on Wednesday, March 26, published what it said was the full text of a chat group mistakenly shared with a journalist by top Trump administration officials laying out plans of an imminent attack on Yemen. The stunning details, including the times of strikes and types of planes being used, were all laid out in screenshots of the chat.
The magazine said it decided to publish after the Trump administration repeatedly denied that any classified information had been included in the unsecure chat.
The White House on Monday confirmed that a journalist was included in a group chat in which US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other top officials discussed upcoming strikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels. President Donald Trump announced strikes on March 15, but in a shocking security breach, The Atlantic magazine’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, revealed that he had hours of advance notice via the group chat on Signal.
“There was no classified information,” Trump told reporters when asked about the chat, saying that the commercial app Signal was used by “a lot of people in government.”
US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said US technical and legal experts were looking into the breach but insisted he had “never met, don’t know, never communicated” with the journalist. He later told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham that he took “full responsibility” for the breach, saying: “I built the group; my job is to make sure everything’s coordinated.”
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