March 26, 2025.

Monday's astounding story that the most senior members of President Donald Trump's administration

planned military strikes on Yemen over an unsecure commercial messaging app, on which they had included

national security reporter and editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg, has escalated

over the past two days. On Monday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegzeth looked directly at a reporter's

camera and said, nobody was texting war plans.

Throughout the day Tuesday, the administration doubled down on this assertion,

apparently convinced that Goldberg would not release the information they knew he had.

They tried to spin the story by attacking Goldberg, suggesting he had somehow hacked into the

conversation, although the app itself tracked that National Security Advisor Michael Waltz

had added him.

Various administration figures, including Trump, insisted that the chat contained nothing classified.

At a scheduled hearing yesterday, before the Senate Intelligence Committee on worldwide threats, during which senators took the

opportunity to dig into the signal scandal, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said,

There was no classified material that was shared in that signal group.

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe, agreed, my communications,

to be clear, in the signal message group, were entirely permissible and lawful and did not

include classified information. In the afternoon, Trump told reporters,

the attack was totally successful. It was, I guess, from what I understand, took place during.

And it wasn't classified information, so this was not classified. After Gabbard said she would

defer to the Secretary of Defense and the National Security

Council about what information should have been classified, Senator Angus King, and Independent of Maine,

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