On Monday The Atlantic published a story that let on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsethsent orphic war plansto aSignalgroup chat . This morning itpublished the entire chat , which includes Hegseth detail the movements of American F-18s , including targets and munitions , in a group chat with 18 other people . Hegseth shared this information before the attack took place and outside of a inviolable setting . This is information that would typically be classified and extremely sensitive .
But on Tuesday , in testimonial before Congress , CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbardswore under oaththat it was n’t . In the initial storey , The Atlantic published a small-scale section of the group confabulation but not the whole thing . In particular , it held back specific information about the movement of the F-18s .
So here are the Modern things we bed now . The fresh story published screenshots of the entire chat that Goldberg witnessed , along with a screenshot of details about the Signal group that showed all of its 19 member . Just last week the Pentagonissued a memo warn against using Signal because of terror from Russian hackers . National Security Advisor Michael Waltz was the mortal who added Goldberg to the group chat . It ’s percipient as day at the top of the first screenshot . Waltz involve “ full obligation ” for the leak in aFox News consultation on Tuesday .
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gives a thumbs up as US President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on 11 January 2025.© Photo by Win McNamee / POOL / AFP) (Photo by WIN MCNAMEE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
One of the funniest billet from the radical chat was Hegseth saying “ We are currently blank on OPSEC [ operational security ] . Godspeed to our warriors . ” We now have the full context of that statement .
Before take to have the information ecosystem locked down , the Secretary of Defense shared the plan to attack the Houthis and include a timeline , specific aircraft , and specific munitions .
“ TEAM UPDATE : TIME NOW ( 1144et ): Weather is FAVORABLE . Just CONFIRMED w/ CENTCOM we are GO for mission launching .
1215et : F-18s LAUNCH ( first 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 Laucn ( 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 - free-base Tomahawks launched . ”“I will say a orison for triumph , ” Vice President JD Vance said in the chat . Two mass react with petition emojis . Then Mike Waltz place the disappearing message timer in the confab to 4 weeks , meaning that everything write afterwards would delete itself after a month .
Waltz hit the chat with a follow up . “ VP . edifice collapsed . Had multiple positive ID . Pete , Kurilla , the IC , awful job . ”
“ What ? ” the Vice President of the United States tell .
“ Typing too fast , ” Waltz said . “ The first target — their top missile guy — we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend ’s construction and now it ’s collapsed . ”
Under oath before Congress yesterday , Gabbard and Ratcliffe talk out of both side of meat of their mouth when grilled about the content of the chat . Congress require to see everything but Ratcliffe and Gabbard would n’t eject it . “ The selective information was not classified , ” Gabbard enunciate , while the dyad refused to publish the information or explain why give-and-take about a bombing run in Yemen are n’t classified .
Trump also enounce the entropy was n’t classified during an consultation on Newsmax Tuesday night . “ Now , it was n’t classify , as I infer , there was no classified entropy . There was no trouble . And the flack was a wondrous success , ” Trump said .
The Atlantic has take the administration ’s tidings at aspect time value . If a discussion among the Vice President , director of National Security , and Secretary of Defense , about a pending military operation is not sort then it ’s free to write it in full . And so it has .
It remains to be seen how the administration will react to another unenviable revealing , but Press Secretary Karoline Levitt gave us an early indicationin a post on X. “ The Atlantic has conceded : these were NOT ‘ warfare plans , ’ ” she enjoin . “ This entire narration was another hoax written by a Trump - hater who is well - have it away for his sensationalist spin . ”
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