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Trump’s Defense Secretary Accidentally Texted War Plans to The Atlantic: ‘I Didn’t Think It Could Be Real,’ Editor Says
Yahoo.com ^ | 3/24/25 | Todd Spangler

Posted on 03/24/2025 3:15:01 PM PDT by bhive

Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s secretary of defense, inadvertently included the top editor of The Atlantic in a Signal text chat group revealing the U.S.’s attack plans on Houthi rebels in Yemen earlier this month, according to the magazine.

The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, reported in a nearly 3,500-word story published Monday that the most senior national-security leaders of the United States included him in a group chat on Signal about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. “I didn’t think it could be real,” he wrote. “Then the bombs started falling.”

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; War on Terror; Yemen
KEYWORDS: alreadydebunked; clintonemails; fakenews; hds; houthihysteria; houthiworshippers; inexcusable; jeffreygoldberg; petehegseth; rop; theatlantic; toddspangler; variety; waltz
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Todd Spangler should have let the proper authorities know he was included in a conversation he should have been.

He will claim this says the Trump admin is incompetent all the while the Biden admin was run by an actual incompetent.

1 posted on 03/24/2025 3:15:01 PM PDT by bhive
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Sorry I should have said Jeffrey Goldberg should have let the proper authorities know he was included in a conversation he should have been.


2 posted on 03/24/2025 3:17:13 PM PDT by bhive
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Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s secretary of defense, inadvertently included the top editor of The Atlantic in a Signal text chat group

Why is the top editor of The Atlantic even in Pete Hegseth's Signal contact list?
3 posted on 03/24/2025 3:17:28 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

“Why is the top editor of The Atlantic even in Pete Hegseth’s Signal contact list?”

Because politicians communicate with the media.

A lot.


4 posted on 03/24/2025 3:20:03 PM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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To: bhive

Oh no. Is this as bad as Hilary’s unsecure server?


5 posted on 03/24/2025 3:20:15 PM PDT by Racketeer
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To: bhive

Maybe it was a strategic leak?


6 posted on 03/24/2025 3:20:31 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I have invented blackened salmon salad by baking it in the oven for too long. )
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Oh no. Is this as bad as Hilary’s unsecure server?

LOL, not even close.

7 posted on 03/24/2025 3:21:12 PM PDT by Kleon
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No accident.

Rooting out traitors, pulling an IDF and warning when and where there will be a strike to try and save innocent “collateral damage” deaths.


8 posted on 03/24/2025 3:21:26 PM PDT by USCG SimTech
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Pete should skip the lunchtime martini.

9 posted on 03/24/2025 3:21:31 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

He isn’t. It’s Waltz. Or, who knows, maybe it’s whoever writes the software and whatever the ChiComs want.

I can’t believe any thinking people are stupid enough to trust this technology.


10 posted on 03/24/2025 3:21:41 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: bhive

Walz is claiming it was he who added Goldberg to the list NOT Hegseth


11 posted on 03/24/2025 3:22:07 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: bhive

Who set up the call? I bet Pete didn’t. This sounds like sabotage.


12 posted on 03/24/2025 3:22:40 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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Pete should skip the lunchtime martini.

Nice try. As far as I know, he hasn't touched a drop in months.

13 posted on 03/24/2025 3:22:58 PM PDT by Kleon
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To: Racketeer

Nah, I doubt Pete was selling classified info to the Muslim brotherhood


14 posted on 03/24/2025 3:23:11 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: bhive

Nope no way


15 posted on 03/24/2025 3:25:50 PM PDT by TBall
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To: bhive

The MIC deep state in Trump’ back pocket is beginning to show it’s self. I knew this was going to happen the minute Vance was announced as his running mate.


16 posted on 03/24/2025 3:26:04 PM PDT by Openurmind
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The left is, of course, saying it’s 10000000000000 times worse.


17 posted on 03/24/2025 3:26:22 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: DeplorablePaul

The reports says Mike Waltz put the chat group together. I’m wondering if it was a deep-state subordinate conducting sabotage, and not waltz who put together to the group chat


18 posted on 03/24/2025 3:27:59 PM PDT by Bulwinkle (Bulwinkle, a.k.a. Daffy Duck )
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To: bhive
Hegseth did it?

According to Mediate, it was Waltz:
Goldberg said he was added to the group after an invitation from Trump National Security Advisor Mike Waltz on Signal, an encrypted messaging cell phone app.

Fingerpointers need to get on the same page before they do their fingerpointing.

19 posted on 03/24/2025 3:29:53 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: bhive

I’m guessing (hoping)(praying?) there’s more to this story than meets the eye. Sum Ting Wong.


20 posted on 03/24/2025 3:30:20 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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