Hey, are you sure you want to send that to your group chat? Like, one thousand percent sure? Just checking. Because it’s been a strange week in the history of the group chat, those seemingly intimate text conversations that ping back and forth among friends and family members and, apparently, national security personnel. On Monday,…
Jeffrey Goldberg may be one of the last journalists the Trump administration would want to inadvertently include on a private text thread discussing war plans. But according to Mr. Goldberg’s stunning revelation on Monday, that is exactly what happened. Mr. Goldberg, 59, was a well-known national security reporter before he took over as editor in…
A Signal leak By far the biggest story of the day is The Atlantic’s stunning revelation that Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, discussed sensitive Yemen bombing plans with other senior Trump administration officials on a messaging app — in a group text that mistakenly included that publication’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. The incident has…
The White House on Monday confirmed that senior Trump administration officials mistakenly added The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, to an encrypted Signal chat discussing classified military operations against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels. The chat, titled “Houthi PC small group”, reportedly included Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and National Security Adviser Mike…