The Atlantic Magazine published the entire text chat on Wednesday, in which high-ranking US security officers took part in the recent strikes against the Yemens Houthi, a strictly secret conversation that accidentally contained the magazine editor-in-chief.
The fully length disclosure follows two intensive days on which high-ranking members of the US secret services and the defense agencies had problems explaining how details that current and former US officials had been classified in order to maintain a not classified chat via the SMS app signal and Jeffrey Goldberg, the Chief of the Atlantic, were included.
Colorado’s congress member, Jim Himes, says that chat about Houthi Airanges accidentally continued to journalists, could easily have been intercepted by the US rival.
At the beginning of a hearing on Wednesday, Jim Himes, the ranking democrat at the intelligence committee of the house, said that it was conceivable to intercept the geopolitical rival of America the content of the chat and to draw the Houthis.
“Due to the great grace of God, we are currently not mourning dead pilots,” said Himes.
The publication of the entire chat by the magazine showed that Defense Minister Pete Hegseth provided the exact times of fighter planes, strike packages and goals – before the men and women were in the air on behalf of the Houthis on behalf of the USA.
Hegseth refused to say whether he has published classified information about the signal. He travels in the Indo-Pacific region and has so far only mocked on questions and said that he had not revealed any “war plans”.
Officials refuse to blame Intel allegations
The director of the National Secret Service Tulsi Gabbard and the CIA director John Ratcliffe informed the members of the Senate’s secret service shot on Tuesday that it was to Hegseth, whether the information he publishes was classified or not.
Gabard changed her opening speech at the House meeting to admit that “open and sensitive” information was discussed, but she continued to claim that the classified intelligence was not shared despite the recent revelations.
Signal is a publicly available app that offers encrypted messages, although it is not approved for the wearing of classified information. Signal messages can also be read by accessing a unlocked or compromised phone.
Ratcliffe repeated his employment from the previous day that no classified information was passed on.
According to the congress on Tuesday, the Top officials of the Trump administration contested the joint use of classified information about the air raids in a group chat in the Signal Messaging app, in which a journalist was incorrectly added.
The Democrat Joaquin Castro from Texas claimed that as former members of the congress, ratcliffe and gablbard were each caught in meetings, which read classified information that was less serious than the Houthi air attacks.
“You know it’s a lie,” said Castro about her claims. “It is a lie in the country.”
The FBI director Kash Patel, who also testified in the House Committee, but not in the Signal chat, said he would not comment on whether the agency would open the security breach.
Republican members of the committee have largely removed from the topic, although Georgia’s Austin Scott official made it confirm that no specific goals or location data were uncovered in the Signal Chat.
The national security advisor Mike Waltz published a similar claim on social media.
Details about Fighter Jet, Sea-based rocket starts
What was unveiled in the latest Atlantic Dispatch was stunning in its specificity and includes the type of information that is kept under closure to protect the surgical security of a military strike.
Hegseth posted in the group chat:
- “1215et: F-18S Start (1st strike package)”
- “1345: ‘Trigger-based’ F-18 1st strike window begins (Target Terrorist is @ his well-known place, so it should be on time-even strike-free start (MQ-9S)”
- “1410: Further F-18S start (2nd strike package)”
- “1415: strike drones on the goal (this is if the first bombs are definitely falling until ” triggered ‘goals’ goals are pending)”
- “1536 f-18 2. Strike begins-also Tomahawks on the basis of Tomahawks in the first lake.”
- “More to follow (per timeline)”
- “We are currently clean at Opsec” – that is, operational security.
- “Godspeed to our warriors.”
Several Democrats, as was the case at the meeting on Tuesday, asked Hegseth to step down.
US President Donald Trump started a ongoing campaign of large military strikes against Jemens Houthis on March 15 because of the group’s attacks on the group’s shipping shipping.
Goldberg was incorrectly invited to the signal group from Waltz. Trump’s national security advisor and the journalist had previously been in contact, but no side found out how it came about that Goldberg was added to the chat.
The white house beats journalist
Trump, Hegseth and Waltz described the journalists pejorative and questioned his motifs. Democrat Himes said on Wednesday that he was worried.
“What do you think, the people who work for you learn from it?” he said.
Goldberg said in the preamble to the article on Wednesday that the Atlantic was confronted with a “dilemma” in view of the statements of Ratcliffe and Gabard at the hearing of the previous committee.
“As a rule, we do not publish any information about military operations if this information could endanger the life of the US personnel,” wrote Goldberg.
Signal is a publicly available app that is widespread by US government officials. Signal offers encrypted communications, but these messages could continue to be read by accessing a unlocked or compromised phone. It is not permitted for the transfer of classified information.
Trump has downplayed the incident in interviews and statements since the first Atlantic article on this matter.
“There was no problem and the attack was an enormous success,” he told Newmax in an interview on Tuesday.
The President said that the Democrats adhered to the Signal Chat history because the government enjoyed “two perfect months”.
However, questions about the treatment of sensitive information from the administration have already been checked and criticized on other fronts.
Last week he was learned that the social security numbers were accidentally published in a document dump in connection with investigations into top-class American political attacks in the 1960s.
Democrats have also accused the administration of allowing the billionaire consultant Elon Musk and a team under his patronage to have access to sensitive government information and some information from American citizens. The Musk and the members of the team of government efficiency (Doge) were not confirmed by the Senate to their roles.
Trump was charged between his terms of the President after two of his real estate in two of his real estate, in Florida and in New Jersey, was found in two of his real estate. Trump was charged with the spy law until a judge contradicted the case. Trump’s election victory in November essentially killed all the opportunities for the public prosecutor’s office to make an appointment against this decision.
Democrats accused Trump and Republicans of hypocrisy in their previous reactions to the signal chat, in view of the way they plunged into the handling of emails in the Democrat Hillary Clinton in an earlier administration, which led to an examination and explanation of the FBI director James Comey at the time that Clinton was “extremely negligent”.
