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Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, suddenly found himself in a chat group he did not know. Without knowing why, the journalist received, on March 11, classified documentation about the US military's plans to attack Yemen on March 15. The of this chat were of the highest level and did not notice the presence of Goldberg, who has told what happened in an article in his publication: "I didn't think this could be real". For its part, the White House has categorically denied it.
Some of the names in the Signal chat, the messaging app, were the US Vice President JD Vance, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The content of this chat was obviously secret and should not have been available to the general public. Mike Waltz, a White House national security adviser, was the one who invited the The Atlantic journalist to the group.
Objectives, time and weaponry in the attack
The information the journalist received in error was not insignificant. The report contained all the details of the attack on the Houthi militias in Yemen: targets, times of the offensive and the list of weapons used in the bombing. "This is going to need some explaining," says The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, who explained that he learned the details of the attack two hours before it was to take place.
Signal, a security-focused messaging service
The chat group was from the instant messaging application Signal. This differs from similar apps in offering greater security. The human factor is uncontrollable and it could not be avoided, no matter how rigorous its end-to-end encryption, that a person was mistakenly added to the group and knew, as in the case at hand, the plans to bomb Yemen.
The White House denies it: "He sells hoaxes over and over again"
The White House's reaction was swift. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth denied the reports and harshly criticized the journalist: "Nobody was sending war plans and that's all I have to say about it. He is a deceptive and highly discredited supposed journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes over and over again. He works with garbage."