Posted on 03/24/25
| News Source: JPost
The Trump administration accidentally texted their military strikes against the Houthi terrorist organization to The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor wrote on Monday on the magazine platform.
Goldberg wrote in his piece that he knew the attacks were coming two hours prior, noting that he received the military plans of Houthi targets, weapons packages, and the timing of the attack straight from US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The editor added that he received the information on the strikes against the Houthis on Signal, an open-source encrypted messaging service, where he received a connection request from National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, whom he initially just believed to be someone else masquerading as him. He then said he received a notice to be included in a group chat on the messaging service known as the "Houthi PC small group."
Waltz himself then sent a message in the group chat, Goldberg continued, saying that it was "establishing a principles [sic] group for coordination" on the Yemeni-based terrorist organization for over the next three days.
“Pls provide the best staff POC (principals committee) from your team for us to coordinate with over the next couple days and over the weekend. Thx,” the Atlantic piece quoted Waltz's text, which was referring to a group of the most senior national security officials to assist in coordinating their war plans against the Houthis.