On Monday The Atlantic published a story that revealed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegsethsent secret war plansto aSignalgroup chat.
Hegseth shared this information before the attack took place and outside of a secure setting.
This is information that would typically be classified and highly sensitive.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gives a thumbs up as US President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025.© Photo by Win McNamee / POOL / AFP) (Photo by WIN MCNAMEE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
In particular, it held back specific information about the movement of the F-18s.
So here are the new things we know now.
Just last week the Pentagonissued a memo warning against using Signal because of threats from Russian hackers.
National Security Advisor Michael Waltz was the person who added Goldberg to the group chat.
Its clear as day at the top of the first screenshot.
Waltz took full responsibility for the leak in aFox News interview on Tuesday.
Godspeed to our warriors.
We now have the full context of that statement.
TEAM UPDATE: TIME NOW (1144et): Weather is FAVORABLE.
Just CONFIRMED w/ CENTCOM we are GO for mission launch.
Two people reacted with prayer emojis.
Waltz hit the chat with a follow up.
Had multiple positive ID.
Pete, Kurilla, the IC, amazing job.
the Vice President of the United States said.
Typing too fast, Waltz said.
Congress wanted to see everything but Ratcliffe and Gabbard wouldnt release it.
Trump also said the information wasnt classified during an interview on Newsmax Tuesday night.
Now, it wasnt classified, as I understand, there was no classified information.
There was no problem.
And the attack was a tremendous success, Trump said.
The Atlantic has taken the administrations words at face value.
And so it has.
The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT war plans, she said.
This entire story was another hoax written by a Trump-hater who is well-known for his sensationalist spin.
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