‘Got To Be Kidding…’ US ‘Stunned’ At ‘Leak’ of Yemen War Plans By Team Trump | Atlantic | Goldberg

A US journalist was inadvertently included in a group chat in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance and other top officials discussed upcoming strikes against Yemen’s Huthi rebels, the White House confirmed Monday (March 24).President Donald Trump announced the strikes on March 15, but in a shocking security breach, The Atlantic magazine’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg wrote that he had hours of advance notice via the group chat on Signal.”The message thread that was reported appears to be authentic, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain,” National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said.The White House said Trump “continues to have the utmost confidence in his national security team,” after the US president earlier said he did not “know anything about” the issue. n18oc_crux0:00 INTRODUCTION3:38 “PEDDLING HOAX’ HEGSETH SCRAMBLES TO CONTROL DAMAGE?6:22 “ATTACK PLANS WERE TEXTED BEFORE STRIKE”7:04 “STUNNING AND DANGEROUS BREACH”