The Atlantic releases strike group chat messages

is the Senior Tech Editor at The Verge. She previously covered tech, science, and art at Popular Science, Gizmodo, and other places. On March 24th, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published a damning story about being added to the ‘Houthi PC Small Group’ on Signal by Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz. In it, he described inadvertently becoming privy to high-level military operation planning that should never have taken place on Signal by people who really should have known better. The administration spent the next two days saying that the contents of the chat were “nonclassified.” On March 26th, The Atlantic released the texts, which included weather conditions for targeted strikes, descriptions of the targets, confirmations, congratulations, names of specific drones used in the attack, and more. Previously, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claimed, “Nobody was texting war plans. And that’s all I have to say about that.” White House Press Secretary Karo ... Read full article.