Donald Trump’s government accidentally included a journalist of the American media The Atlantic in A private messaging group in which Executive members They discussed attacks against the Houthi rebels In Yemen, an error that on Monday said they were investigating.
Brian Hughes, spokesman for the White House National Security Council, said The messages revealed by Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor -in -chief of the publication, seemed to be “authentic” And that the government was “reviewing how an unexpected number was added to the chain,” according to The Washington Post.
The Trump administration accidentally sent me their war plans
Goldberg made his story public this Monday in an article entitled ‘The Trump administration accidentally message me his war plans’ explained that at the beginning of March an account that had the name of the White House Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, He had included it in a conversation of the signal application.
The chat included accounts that apparently belonged to Key figures such as the vice president, JD Vance, the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth,The State, Marco Rubio, And even the National Intelligence Director, Tulsi Gabbardamong others.
What plans revealed in the chat
Specifically, in the conversation an account with the name of Hegseth described a plan of attacks against the hutis in the Yemen, With sensitive information as the precise moment of attacks or what type of weapons would be used.
In interviews in MSNBC and CNN, Goldberg insists that, although he decided not to include it in his article, He has evidence that the Secretary of Defense shared thorough details prior to US air attacks Against huti targets in Yemen on March 15 and that its refusal that it was “Lie”.
“I will not reveal the things I saw or read, but I can describe them, like The specific time of a future attack, specific objectives, Including human objectives to kill, weapons, meteorological reports (…) along with sequences of events that were going to pass. He (Hegesh) can say that it was not a war plan, but it was a minute by minute narrative about what is about to happen, “Goldberg said.
Minutes before, the head of the Pentagon said upon arrival in Hawaii that in that message chain “nobody shared war plans” and criticized Goldberg for “traffic with bulos” and “garbage.”
They ask for an investigation
Republican and Democratic legislators said Monday that the treatment of classified information that can put national security and life of military and intelligence operations at risk in the world must be investigated.
The details of the conversations between 18 senior officials of the Trump administration included comments from the vice president, JD Vance, about diplomatic tensions with the European Union or about the justifications of the attacks against the hutis and even forced Goldberg to avoid sharing the name of a spy that would have been exposed in that chat by the CIA director.
