The White House Said No Classified Material Was Shared in the Group Chat. Then the Rest of It Leaked

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have lied when he said that "nobody was texting war plans." In a stunning piece for The Atlantic on Monday, the magazine's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he had accidentally been added to a Signal group chat between key national security personnel — including Hegseth, vice president JD Vance, and national security advisor Mark Waltz — as they discussed an upcoming offensive in Yemen. Not only was the use of Signal a reckless departure from the norms designed to stop highly sensitive information from landing in the wrong hands, but nobody noticed that a prominent journalist had been added to the chat, itself a farcical error. In response, the White House attempted to argue that "no classified material" was shared in the chat — but Goldberg has now called their bluff. Even Trump has said that "it wasn't classified information," but later argued that Waltz had "learned a lesson," seemingly contradicting himself. Regardless, in ... Read full article.