(L-R) US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz speaks with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as US President Donald Trump meets with French President Emmanuel Macron within the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2025.
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The Atlantic on Wednesday published the full text thread from the Trump administration’s Signal group that by accident included a outstanding journalist in discussions of pending U.S. army strikes.
Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, had withheld a number of the contents of the thread in his bombshell report Monday revealing that he had been looped in on plans to hold out assaults on Houthi targets in Yemen.
Goldberg famous in that report that a number of the texts contained info that “could conceivably have been used to harm American military and intelligence personnel,” had they been learn by a U.S. adversary.
But Goldberg and his outlet determined to publish the total texts after President Donald Trump and others within the group chat declared Tuesday that not one of the messages have been categorized, and stated that they didn’t include “war plans,” as The Atlantic’s preliminary headline said.
The texts from the “Houthi PC small group” printed Wednesday morning are unredacted, save for the identify of 1 CIA intelligence officer, The Atlantic stated.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in an X submit homed in on the journal’s resolution to explain the thread as “Attack Plans,” quite than warfare plans, in its newest headline.
“The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT war plans,'” Leavitt wrote.
“This entire story was another hoax written by a Trump-hater who is well-known for his sensationalist spin.”
Goldberg responded straight later Wednesday morning: “I don’t even know what that means … What are they arguing, that an attack is different than a war?”
“She’s playing some sort of weird semantic game,” he stated in an MSNBC interview.
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