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Atlantic Publishes Classified Group Chat After White House Calls Bluff #usa #america The Atlantic has published the classified text messages, and it’s safe to say… yeah these are definitely classified. Here is Pete Hegseth laying out the sequencing of events with exact times and plans of attack - and no joke - if the Houthis had intercepted these texts, we’d have several dead pilots and sailors right now. Right after this text, we see Hegseth say “we are currently clear on OPSEC” - meaning he understood the importance of secrecy here and that he knew that this information was classified. The Atlantic is still doing a bit of withholding here, they have withheld the names of the US’s targets as well as the identities of CIA agents. Yesterday Goldberg said that just because they’re being irresponsible doesn’t mean I need to be. We’re now going to let the texts roll on screen here so you can see them all. At the start of the text thread, we see that Mike Waltz added Goldberg before Rubio gets added.. so he definitely didn’t break in as they tried to say yesterday. Waltz seems to reveal the capabilities of our European allies in the texts saying that they don’t have the capability to defend themselves from anti-ship missiles. We also see Waltz confirm that there are several signal groups and he shares a battle plan assessment which is also classified information. Yesterday we saw the entire administration, everyone from Trump to Hegseth to Waltz, double and triple down on there being no classified information or attack information shared. If you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. We have the White House defending itself by saying “see… no war plans were shared” cause the Atlantic used the term “attack plans” in the article. We also saw the Pentagon adopt that same talking point. One US defense official said “It is safe to say that anybody in uniform would be court martialed for this,”
On Monday, The Atlantic published a story detailing how editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg had been inadvertently added to a Signal group chat of Trump-administration officials discussing attack plans on Houthi targets in Yemen. After the story’s publication, a reporter asked the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, why he had shared plans about a forthcoming attack on the messaging app. “Nobody was texting war plans,” he answered. “And that’s all I have to say about that.” Other Trump-administration figures have since downplayed the texts shared with Goldberg. President Donald Trump, asked yesterday afternoon about the matter, said, “It wasn’t classified information.” But the statements by Trump-administration figures have led The Atlantic to believe that people should see the texts to reach their own conclusions. “There is a clear public interest in disclosing the sort of information that Trump advisers included in nonsecure communications channels,” Goldberg and Harris write, “especially because senior administration figures are attempting to downplay the significance of the messages that were shared.” “Experts have repeatedly told us that use of a Signal chat for such sensitive discussions poses a threat to national security,” Goldberg and Harris write. “As a case in point, Goldberg received information on the attacks two hours before the scheduled start of the bombing of Houthi positions. If this information—particularly the exact times American aircraft were taking off for Yemen—had fallen into the wrong hands in that crucial two-hour period, American pilots and other American personnel could have been exposed to even greater danger than they ordinarily would face.” At the link in our bio, read the detailed attack plans that Trump’s advisers shared in the group chat.