The Atlantic has published previously undisclosed revelations detailing military plans circulated among Trump administration officials via the encrypted messaging app Signal. The plans, intended for a select group of officials, were mistakenly sent to Jeffrey Goldberg, the magazine’s editor-in-chief.
In the latest feature titled “Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal,” the publication lays out contents from messages detailing a proposed strike on Yemen.
The report underscores growing concern over how the Trump administration handled sensitive information—and the extent to which it bypassed secure communication channels.
“The statements by Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, and Trump—combined with the assertions made by numerous administration officials that we are lying about the content of the Signal texts—have led us to believe that people should see the texts in order 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, especially because senior administration figures are attempting to downplay the significance of the messages that were shared,” stated Goldberg.
The White House has downplayed the incident in recent days. Shortly after The Atlantic’s initial report, a reporter pressed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on why he had used Signal to share attack plans.
“Nobody was texting war plans. And that’s all I have to say about that,” said Hegseth.
However the latest text messages sent on March 15 the Atlantic publish today show and include correspondence from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth outlining plans for air strikes on Yemen.
According to The Atlantic, Hegseth went on to outline the attack plans in detail via the Signal chat, providing a precise timeline of the operation.
- 1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package)
- 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))
- 1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package)
- 1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier ‘Trigger Based’ targets)
- 1536: F-18 2nd Strike Starts – also, first sea-based Tomahawks launched
At a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing yesterday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were both questioned about the chat. Gabbard told lawmakers, “There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal group,” while declining to elaborate on what exactly was shared.
The incident began when National Security Adviser Michael Waltz inadvertently included Goldberg in the Signal thread. According to The Atlantic, what followed was a stream of highly sensitive exchanges between top Trump officials, some of which the magazine has now made public.
Security experts say the way Waltz and others involved spoke outside the established security protocols for conducting business, raise urgent questions about the handling of national defense information at the highest levels of government.
Appearing on MSNBC this morning, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg explained the rationale behind publishing the full set of messages, while noting that one detail was deliberately withheld.
“We did redact one piece of information because we felt, on our own, that we felt it was best to do,” he said. “And the CIA asked us, but, you know, at a certain point, the administration is saying that there’s nothing classified or secret or sensitive in these so at a certain point, I just felt, you know, let our readers decide for themselves.”
Goldberg also addressed a statement made earlier in the day by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who posted on X: “The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT ‘war plans.’ This entire story was another hoax written by a Trump-hater who is well-known for his sensationalist spin.”
In response, Goldberg said, “She’s just playing some sort of weird semantic game.”
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