The Atlantic publishes full Signal chat messages showing military plans about U.S. strikes in Yemen
The Atlantic on Wednesday published a transcript of text messages showing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth detailed U.S. military attack plans in Yemen in a Signal group chat that inadvertently included the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg.
The Atlantic on Wednesday published a transcript of text messages showing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth detailed U.S. military attack plans in Yemen in a Signal group chat that inadvertently included the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg.
In an article titled “Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal,” Goldberg quoted from texts in which Hegseth specified types of U.S. military aircraft and the timing of recent airstrikes against Houthi militias in Yemen. The texts did not include information about specific targets.
“1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package),” one of the texts says, referring to a type of military aircraft. “1345: ‘Trigger Based’ F-18 1st Strike Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME) — also, Strike Drones Launch (MQ-9s).”
Goldberg and Shane Harris, a national security and intelligence reporter at The Atlantic, published the latest article a day after President Donald Trump’s administration tried to downplay the magazine’s first report about the Signal thread.
Asked about the matter Tuesday, Trump said: “It wasn’t classified information.” Hegseth, speaking to reporters Monday, said in part: “Nobody was texting war plans.”
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