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The Atlantic releases entire Signal chat showing Hegseth’s detailed attack plans against Houthis

U.S. Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth in the Oval Office of the White
House, in Washington, on March 21.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

The Atlantic released the entire Signal chat among Trump senior national security officials Wednesday, showing that Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth provided the exact timing of warplane launches and when bombs would drop – before the men and women flying those attacks against Yemen’s Houthis this month on behalf of the United States were airborne.

The disclosure follows two intense days during which Trump’s senior most cabinet members of his intelligence and defence agencies have struggled to explain how details that current and former U.S. officials have said would
have been classified wound up on an unclassified Signal chat that included Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg,

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has said no classified
information was posted to the Signal chat.

Democrats push Trump intelligence officials to resign after Yemen war
security breach

Hegseth has refused to say whether he posted classified information onto Signal. He is travelling in the Indo-Pacific and to date has only scoffed
at questions, saying he did not reveal “war plans.” Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe told members of
the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday that it was up to Hegseth to determine whether the information he was posting was classified or not.

What was revealed was jaw-dropping in its specificity and includes the type
of information that is kept to a very close hold to protect the operational security of a military strike.

In the group chat, Hegseth posted:

“1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package)”

“1345: `Trigger Based’ F-18 1st Strike Window Starts (Target Terrorist is
his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME – also, Strike Drones Launch (MQ-
9s)”

“1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package)”

“1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL
DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier `Trigger Based’ targets)”

“1536 F-18 2nd Strike Starts – also, first sea-based Tomahawks launched.”

“MORE TO FOLLOW (per timeline)”

“We are currently clean on OPSEC” – that is, operational security.

“Godspeed to our Warriors.”

Goldberg has said he asked the White House if it opposed publication and
that the White House responded that it would prefer he did not publish.

Signal is a publicly available app that provides encrypted communications,
but it can be hacked. It is not approved for carrying classified
information. On March 14, one day before the strikes, the Defence
Department cautioned personnel about the vulnerability of Signal,
specifically that Russia was attempting to hack the app, according to a
U.S. official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and
spoke on the condition of anonymity.

One known vulnerability is that a malicious actor, with access to a
person’s phone, can link his or her device to the user’s Signal and
essentially monitor messages remotely in real time.

Leavitt is one of three Trump administration officials who face a lawsuit
from the Associated Press on First and Fifth Amendment grounds. The AP says
the three are punishing the news agency for editorial decisions they
oppose. The White House says the AP is not following an executive order to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

Top national security officials for President Donald Trump texted plans for upcoming military strikes in Yemen to a group chat in a secure messaging
app that included the editor-in-chief for The Atlantic, the magazine
reported in a story posted online Monday, raising questions about how
highly sensitive information is supposed to be handled.

The Associated Press

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