The editor -in -chief of Atlantic magazine revealed in an article on Monday that Trump administration officials revealed decisive military details about air strikes in the United States on the targets of the rebels in Yemen on March 15, hours before the attack.

The veteran journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, said that US government officials Add it by mistake To the text message channel, where they set the strike.

The United States government admitted that the message interconnection is authentic. The accident prompted accusations by the Trump administration’s critics that senior officials were guilty of a major security violation.

Here’s more about what happened, what was revealed, and how US officials responded, and what is the following:

What happened?

Discover the world shortly before 2 pm [18:00 GMT] On March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi goals throughout Yemen, “Goldberg wrote, as he opened his article on Monday about the Atlantic.

However, I knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might come. The reason that made me know this is that the Higseth Minister, the Minister of Defense, had sent me a war plan at 11:44 am [15:44 GMT]”

Here what happened.

On March 11, Goldberg received a request from a person named Michael Waltz on Signal, an encrypted correspondent service. Michael “Mike” Waltz is the US National Security Adviser.

Goldberg wrote that he did not initially believe that this was the actual vulva that he was trying to communicate with. He thought he could be a person pretending to be Valz, who would try to get information from Goldberg.

But the editor added that he met Walz in the past. “I did not find it strange that he might communicate with me, and I think it is somewhat unusual,” Goldberg wrote, given the controversial relationship of the Trump administration with journalists.

Before Goldberg, the demand, still hoped to be the real waltz.

On March 13, Goldberg was added to a set of messaging on a signal called “Houthi PC”. Goldberg, based on his experience in reporting the United States government, assumed that the personal computer here means the Schools Committee – a committee that includes senior leaders in the cabinet, generally linked to security issues.

Who participated in the group chat?

Goldberg wrote that there are 18 members in the group. Besides the Pallis, the group included messages from:

• Someone was determined as practicing who assumed that Goldberg was Secretary of State Marco “Antonio” Rubio.
• An individual identified as JD Vance, Trump Vice President.
• A person called TG, who assumed Goldberg is the United States Director of National Intelligence Tolcy Gabbard.
• Goldberg, an account called Scott B, wrote the Minister of Treasury, Minister of Treasury, “or someone relieves his identity.”
• One of the users is called the Higseth Beit, and the US defense secretary is supposed to be.
• A person named John Ratcliffe, who is supposed to be the director of the CIA.
• Another user named Brian. Goldberg did not mention those who were supposed to be. Brian Hughes is a spokesman for the National Security Council, and Brian McCormak is the chief of staff Waltz. It is not clear whether Brian has the group either of them.
• Someone was determined as “SM”, who is assumed by Goldberg was the internal security adviser Stephen Miller.
• An individual identified as Joe Kent, the name of Trump’s candidate to manage the National Center for Combating Terrorism.

What exactly did the military chat revealed?

The chat was opened on March 13 with Waltz to revive the group that this was a team that was established “to coordinate the Houthis”, and that his deputy was collecting “a tiger team in deputies/head of an employee level agency who continued from the meeting in the living room this morning to obtain work elements later in this evening.” The sitting room, or the position room is a group of intelligence management at the White House, where the latest information is connected to the military or political situation.

Then Waltz asked chat members to name a contact point from their team to coordinate with the Waltz team in the coming days and the group members began naming individuals from their teams.

At 8:05 am (12:05 GMT) on March 14, Waltz wrote: “Team, you must have a conclusive statement with Taskings for all the guidelines of the presidents this morning in high side boxes.” High side in -side fund refers to the classified communication systems.

The messages also appear to be Vans in a dispute with the approach to Yemen, which seemed to be Higseth and Waltz. “I think we are wrong,” the account called Vance on March 14.

The account wrote in a letter: “3 per cent of American trade passes through Suez. 40 percent of European trade.”

“I am not sure that the president is aware of the extent of his message in Europe now … there is a strong argument to delay this month.”

Goldberg also wrote that the collection received letters from Ratcliffe “that can be explained as related to actual and current intelligence operations.”

The Atlantic Ocean editor added that Higseth responded to Vans’s fears, while recognizing them, but he argues that delaying the operation came with the dangers of “1) these leaks, and we seem un decay; 2) Israel takes a measure first – or Gaza stops the fire – and we do not start this on our own conditions.”

“We can manage both,” he added. “We are ready to implement, and if I have a final vote or not, I think we should.”

Waltz also fell with a message about the numbers of trade and limited capabilities of the European Navy.

“If you think we should do it, let’s go. I just hate to save Europe again.” This, the Hegseth account, “Vice President: I share completely hate in the free European download. It is compassionate.”

On March 15 at 11:44 am (8:44 GMT), the Hegseth account was published “Team Update”. Goldberg did not reveal the details of this update in his article, saying that if the United States’s opponent saw these details, they can harm the American army and intelligence.

However, Goldberg added that Higseth’s message contains operational details of the March 15 attacks in Yemen, including targets – including individuals – was supposed to be used by the weapons and the sequence of events that will follow it.

Goldberg waited in his car in a car park in a supermarket to see if the attacks had already occurred at the time Higseth specified in his message. They did, in the Yemeni capital, Sana, Goldberg, that he discovered through X.

The strikes killed at least 53 people, including children, and others wounded.

What did Goldberg do?

Goldberg came out of the group chat and sent a message to a signal and sent an email to many American officials who have questions about whether the group is real, and whether the officials know Goldberg.

Goldberg wrote that Vans William Martin spokesman wrote that despite the impression created by the messages, Vans was completely in line with Trump. Martin said, according to Goldberg’s article.

How did American government officials respond?

“This seems to be a series of authentic messages, and we are reviewing how an unintended number has been added to the series,” the National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said in a statement.

“The thread is evidence of deep and thoughtful political coordination among senior officials. The continuous success of the Houthi process indicates that there are no threats to the forces or national security.”

“I heard how it was distinguished. No one was sending war plans. This is all I should say about it.”

US State Department spokesman Tami Bruce declined to comment at a press conference on Monday.

Trump was also pressed on the scandal during an event at the White House in Louisiana on Monday. “I don’t know anything about it,” Trump said, adding that he was not a great admirer. It seemed to confuse a violation to try to sabotage the American attack on Yemen.

Could this be a breach of the espionage law?

Goldberg wrote that the Palls may have violated the espionage law, citing this for many national security lawyers that the Atlantic Ocean met.

This law is a federal law for the first time in 1917, which criminalizes the transfer of information aimed at interfering in the operations of the American armed forces. Goldberg has no necessary security permit to display confidential information.

Democrats called for investigation In this.

“If the Republicans in the House of Representatives are really serious in preserving a safe America … they must join the Democrats in a rapid and serious investigation, and they are fundamental in this unacceptable and irresponsible national violation,” the leader of the minority in the US House of Representatives, Hakim Jeffrez, said in a statement.

Senator Dilayer Chris Konz wrote on his X account: “There must be an supervision and accountability session on these procedures.”

Jeffrey Goldberg’s reports in the Atlantic Ocean call for an immediate and comprehensive achievement. If senior advisers to President Trump actually use non -governmental and non -governmental systems to discuss and transfer detailed war plans, they are a terrible violation of the criteria for participation …

Senator Chriscoons (Christocoons) March 24, 2025