Jeffrey Goldberg: Trump's people mistakenly sent me military plans

Goldberg describes that he first received an invitation from the user called “Michael Waltz” on Signal. As he explains, he accepted them, hoping that he is indeed a Trump advisor for safety, with whom he will be able to talk, among others about Ukraine. Two days later – writes Goldberg – he was notified that he was added to a group chat called “Houthi PC Small Group”. Among other things, the boss was in it Pentagon Pete HegeSeth, vice president of JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio or national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard.

Goldberg was displayed to other users as “JG” and – as he writes – no one paid attention to his presence, thanks to which for a few more a few days he could observe a discussion between them about the planned hit on the goals of Yemenian rebels, and two hours before this military operation he received its detailed plan, and later information about its effects.

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Goldberg admits that he initially had doubts whether the messages he received was true and whether they were disinformation. Attacks in Yemen Indeed, however, they were carried out on March 15 in accordance with the discussed plan, and the spokesman for the National Security Council Brian Hughes admitted that the chat “looks authentic”. “We check how the number was accidentally added to it,” he wrote back to Goldberg. He assured that “there was no threat to troops or national security.”

The head of “The Atlantic” noticed that in the discussion preceding the decision to hit Yemen, skeptical voices of this operation appeared, mainly from the vice president of JD Vance. He argued, among others, that it would be difficult to convince citizens USA On the rightness of this decision and that it will be used by Europe, which uses trade routes leading through the Red Sea, threatened by Hutich to a much greater extent.

“I am not sure if the president (USA Donald Trump) is aware of how contrary to his current message about Europe. There is also a risk that we will see a moderate or serious increase in oil prices” – wrote Vance. “If you think that we should do it, let's do it. I just don't like that we are saving Europe again” – he added (administration members argued that US European allies benefit from the protection of international shipping routes, which is provided by the American Navy).

Hegeth replied that the European “gaping” is “pathetic”, but noted that only the US is able to carry out surgery on such a scale. Advisor of President Stephen Miller replied that Trump agreed to her, but “soon he is to make it clear to Egypt and Europe, what we expect in return.”

“We also need to determine how to enforce such a requirement. What if, for example, Europe does not compensate (US suffered in connection with the operation) costs? If the US is effectively, at a huge cost will restore the freedom of sailing, in return you will have to get some additional economic benefits in return,” said Miller.

According to Goldberg and the experts he cited, conducting a discussion and sharing sensitive data through a commercial application, representatives of the White House could break the law, including the espionage law. Former members of the US authorities told “The Atlantic” journalists that they used Signala to provide declared information and discuss routine matters, especially during foreign travels when they did not have access to US government systems.

“They knew, however, that they should never share secret or confidential information by the application, because their phones could be hacked by a foreign intelligence service that could read the messages on devices,” Goldberg emphasized.

The president was asked about the case on Monday Donald Trump. As he said, “he knows nothing about it” and learned about everything from the journalist asking the question.