US military plans chat leak: Who added Atlantic editor in the group? Trump's big revelation
Jeffrey Goldberg said on March that he was accidentally added to a group chat with top members of the Trump Administration, as they discussed plans to attack the Houthis of Yemen earlier this month. Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, detailed the events in an article for the publication (“The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans”). The group chat on the encrypted messaging platform Signal included US Vice President JD Vance, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Who added the Atlantic editor to the group chat?
On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump addressed a security breach where the Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey was added to a classified Signal group chat discussing sensitive military operations against the Iran-backed rebel group Houthis.
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According to the US President, the military intelligence breach likely happened when a junior staff member working for national security adviser Mike Waltz somehow included Goldberg in the high-level discussion group. The group named «Houthi PC small group» had 18 senior officials coordinating the US military response to Houthi aggression.
In an interview with Newsmax, Trump said, «And what it was, we believe, is somebody that was on the line with permission; somebody that was with Mike Waltz — worked for Mike Waltz at a lower level — had, I guess, Goldberg's number or called through the app, and somehow this guy ended up on the call. Now, it wasn't classified, as I understand it. There was no classified information. There was no problem, and the attack
