Washington (Reuters)-Trump high-ranking authorities, including US Vice President Jd Vance, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, misleading a journalist in a group of messages discussing attacks against Iran’s slope, first -hared reporting The Atlantic magazine.
The Atlantic editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, said in a report on Monday that he was inadvertently invited on March 13 to a encrypted chat group in the Signal Message Application called “House PC Small Group”.
In the group, National Security Counselor Mike Waltz charged his deputy Alex Wong of creating a “tiger team” to coordinate US action against the Houthis.
US President Donald Trump launched a large -scale continuous military campaign against the yamen hethis on March 15 due to attacks by the Red Sea ships, and warned Iran, the main supporter of the hethis, who needed to immediately interrupt support for the group.
Hours before the beginning of these attacks, Hegseth posted operational details about the plan, “including target information, weapons that the US would be employing, and the sequence of the attack,” Goldberg said, refusing to reveal the details of what he called the “imprudent” use of the signal chat to coordinate the attack.
The Defense Department forwarded a Reuters request for the National Security Council (NSC), and NSC spokesman Brian Hughes said the chat group seemed to be authentic.
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“At this time, the line of messages that has been reported seems to be authentic, and we are analyzing how an inadvertent number has been added to the chain. The topic is a demonstration of deep and careful policy coordination between high employees. Operation Humhi’s continuous success shows that there was no threats to our military or our national security,” Hughes said.
