The Atlantic posts more texts from Signal group chat showing Hegseth provided detailed attack plans
The Trump White House has said "these were NOT war plans that were discussed."
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The Trump White House has said "these were NOT war plans that were discussed."
The Atlantic published additional messages Wednesday showing Hegseth provided detailed information to the group of senior Trump officials about the strikes targeting Houthi rebels earlier this month, including a timeline of when fighter jets would take off and what kind of weapons would be used.
Both U.S. senators and two members of Congress from Illinois on Wednesday took the Trump administration to task over a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal that included sensitive details about military strikes in Yemen.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that nobody was texting war plans in the group chat.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in Congress are asking for an official investigation into what happened when a reporter was added to a Trump administration group chat discussing planned military strikes against Houthi rebels. The heads of the Senate Armed Services Committee are asking the White House for an inspector general investigation into the use of the messaging app Signal to discuss sensitive military plans.
The fallout is intensifying from President Trump's national security team's discussions about highly sensitive military operations on a non-government approved messaging app. Democratic lawmakers in Congress grilled members of the security team, as new details emerged about the group chat in which they discussed a U.S. strike on Houthi rebels.
It's the group text heard around the world. Congress wants to know how a journalist ended up in a Trump administration text thread about highly sensitive military operations. Leaders of U.S. intelligence agencies were testifying Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee about global security threats, one day after it was revealed that top Trump officials inadvertently included a journalist in a group chat about the United States' highly sensitive plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen.
Members of Congress are demanding answers after a journalist reported he was accidentally added to a group chat with top U.S. officials who were discussing highly sensitive military plans. The National Security Council said the messages seem to be authentic. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is now slamming the Atlantic magazine article.
The National Security Council said the message thread "appears to be authentic" and the administration is "reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain."
A group chat about military strikes in Yemen inadvertently included Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Goldberg wrote on Monday.
It was revealed Monday that Secretary Pete Hegseth and several other Trump administration figures discussed military strikes in Yemen on the encrypted messaging app Signal, and Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was accidentally included.
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