Oopsie Daisy: U.S. Government Snafu Lands Journalist in Middle of Secret Strategy Shenanigans
Government inadvertently extended conference invitation to media personality for clandestine discussion - U.S. Authorities Mistakenly Allow a Reporter Access to a Confidential Online Meeting Room
Take a seat, folks, 'cause this one's a doozy. The bigwigs at the U.S. government might wanna brush up on their secret chats protocol, because they just accidentally invited a journalist to their exclusive, highly classified confab! Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of U.S. mag __The Atlantic___, swears he was accidentally thrown into a clandestine group chat alongside top tier members of the Trump administration.
Apparently, ol' Jeff was tagging along in a group chat squared away on Signal – y'know, that fancy-pants encrypted messaging app – where the presidential cronies seemed to be hashing out some heat-seeking plans to take down the Houthis in Yemen, who were, as usual, getting a bit too cozy with Iran. Goldberg's report goes into all the juicy details, clocks 'em with exact timestamps, and even throws in some chill, off-the-cuff chat room banter for good measure.
Big-time players like Vice Prez J.D. Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, SecState Marco Rubio, and other high-profile admin peeps and feathered government falcons were reportedly holding court in this chatterbox. Not only were military tactics being thrown around like confetti at a parade, but the political PR surrounding the strike on those Yemen Houthis was also a hot topic of conversation.
And here's where it gets really embarrassing: two hours before the big show, ol' Hegseth himself hit up Goldberg's inbox with a smorgasbord of intel about targets, weapons systems, and the op's timeline. Pretty soon after, the air was filled with the piercing sounds of explosions, as those Houthi positions in Yemen finally got the ol' what-for.
The U.S. had just recently branded the militia as a foreign terrorist group, and this little kerfluffle happened soon after. Y'see, ol' Jeff thought maybe it was all a big prank, but once the explosions started goin' off, he couldn't deny that the party was the real deal. He bailed from the chat soon after, and not a peep was heard from his newfound chat buddies about his presence there.
The spokesperson for the National Security Council, Brian Hughes, tried to spin the whole thing, claiming it was "evidence of the intense and deliberate political coordination between high-ranking government representatives." Eh, more like evidence of some sloppy chat room invites, if ya ask me.
Donald Trump's secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, likely described the logs of a secret strategy to a journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, from The Atlantic, who accidentally joined a classified group chat with high-profile administration members like Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and others. This chat allegedly discussed military tactics and political PR surrounding a strike on the Houthis in Yemen, with Hegseth reportedly sharing intel about targets, weapons systems, and the operation's timeline with Goldberg before the attack.
