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群聊联系人似乎是特朗普政府的大多数国家安全领导人，包括赫格塞斯、副总统 JD Vance、国务卿马可·卢比奥、国家情报总监塔尔西·加巴德和白宫副办公厅主任斯蒂芬·米勒。
3 月 15 日星期六，在美国轰炸也门事件公开前大约两个小时，曾主持福克斯新闻“福克斯与朋友周末”节目的赫格塞斯向 Signal 组发送了作战计划，其中包括“有关武器包、目标和时间的精确信息”，戈德伯格写道。
Trump’s Defense Secretary Accidentally Texted War Plans to The Atlantic: ‘I Didn’t Think It Could Be Real,’ Editor Says
By Todd Spangler
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Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s secretary of defense, inadvertently included the top editor of The Atlantic in a Signal text chat group revealing the U.S.’s attack plans on Houthi rebels in Yemen earlier this month, according to the magazine.
The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, reported in a nearly 3,500-word story published Monday that the U.S.’s most senior national-security leaders included him in a group chat on Signal about upcoming military strikes in Yemen against the Houthis, an Iran-backed terrorist group. “I didn’t think it could be real,” he wrote. “Then the bombs started falling.”
According to Goldberg’s report, he received a connection request on Signal, an open-source encrypted messaging app, from a user identified as Michael Waltz. “I assumed that the Michael Waltz in question was President Donald Trump’s national security adviser. I did not assume, however, that the request was from the actual Michael Waltz,” Goldberg wrote.
In the story, Goldberg detailed how the same user later added him to a group chat called “Houthi PC small group” (or “principals committee”), with contacts who appeared to be most of the Trump administration’s national-security leaders, including Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
On Saturday, March 15, about two hours before America’s bombing in Yemen became publicly known, Hegseth — a former host on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends Weekend” — texted the Signal group the war plan, which included “precise information about weapons packages, targets and timing,” Goldberg wrote.
“I have never seen a breach quite like this,” Goldberg wrote. “It is not uncommon for national-security officials to communicate on Signal. But the app is used primarily for meeting planning and other logistical matters — not for detailed and highly confidential discussions of a pending military action. And, of course, I’ve never heard of an instance in which a journalist has been invited to such a discussion.”
Goldberg was concerned that the Signal text chat he had been added to could be a “disinformation operation, or a simulation of some sort” until Hegseth’s account posted detailed information about the imminent strikes on Yemen (which the editor did not quote). He noted in the article that “the Signal app is not approved by the government for sharing classified information.”
Hegseth had texted to the Signal group that the discussion about the military operation in Yemen was secure, according to Goldberg. The secretary had written in the chat, “We are currently clean on OPSEC,” which is jargon for “operational security.”
According to The Atlantic, the veracity of the messaging group was confirmed by Brian Hughes, a spokesman for the National Security Council. “This appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain,” Hughes wrote in a statement. “The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials. The ongoing success of the Houthi operation demonstrates that there were no threats to troops or national security.”
(Pictured above: Pete Hegseth)
Trump’s Defense Secretary Accidentally Texted War Plans to The Atlantic: ‘I Didn’t Think It Could Be Real,’ Editor Says
Pete Hegseth, President Trump's secretary of defense, inadvertently included the top editor of The Atlantic in a Signal text chat group revealing the U.S.'s attack plans on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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