According to The Atlantic media, Waltz would have added to Goldberg by mistake, allowing access to the plan without being detected. The incident was qualified as a serious threat to national security.
Scandal in the White House: The Donald Trumop Government Filter Plan in Yemen
The message chain began at 11.44 (Eastern time) on March 15, 31 minutes before takeoff of the first American war plane to fulfill the attack. He Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth He started the conversation with an advertisement about an imminent update.
The other messages detail the Weapons involved, the goal to attack and its exact location. Shortly after, a follow -up message deepens the armaments and the programming of the attacks, according to Reuters and AFP.
At 13.48 (east time), Waltz sent a real -time intelligence message about the attack situation in the area. This information earned positive responses among chat members.
Later that same afternoon, Hegseth published another update, referring to the attacks would continue during the night. The article exposes how a simple message chain on a messaging platform encrypted as a signal can put national security at risk by exposing classified details to unauthorized actors.
What they said from the Trump administration about the filtration of the Yemen attack plan
When questioned in Fox News, Waltz admitted to having created the group but avoided assuming all the fault. He also insulted Goldberg and claimed that they still investigated how the filtration happened. Without evidence, he suggested that the journalist could have deliberately accessed.
For his part, Vice President JD Vance said the magazine The Atlantic “Overtaken” the filtration about plans for an attack in Yemen. In a message posted on the social network X, Vance stressed: “It is very clear that (Jeffrey) Goldberg overshadowed what he had.”
Trump hinted That a Waltz subordinate could have added to Goldberg and minimized the incident by qualifying it as a “Little mistake.” Besides, said that no classified information had been shared.
In response to the statements of Trump’s officials, the American magazine The Atlantic He published on Wednesday what, he said, was the full text of the chat, including Crucial details such as the time of attacks and types of aircraft used, in this case an F-18
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