Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg threatens to release MORE war plans texts after being included in group chat By LAURA PARNABY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM 18:27 EDT, 25 March 2025 1/2

The Atlantic editor who published some of the war texts from Donald Trump's administration is considering releasing more of the group chat. Jeffrey Goldberg, the magazine's editor-in-chief, told Tim Miller on the Bulwark Podcast his team is mulling over releasing the full trove of Signal app messages.

'My colleagues and I and the people who are giving us advice on this have some interesting conversations to have about this,' Goldberg told the podcast. 'But just because they're irresponsible with material, doesn't mean that I'm going to be irresponsible.'

Goldberg made the jaw-dropping revelation on Monday that Trump's national security team had added him to a top secret chat about military strikes in Yemen. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz started the conversation on Signal, an encrypted messaging app.

It included users identified as Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. A CIA representative, Trump adviser Stephen Miller and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles were also listed in the group.

Goldberg noted that 'Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted (him) the war plan at 11:44 a.m.' The bombs started dropping in Yemen around 2 p.m.

Goldberg made the jaw-dropping revelation that Trump's national security team added him to a top secret chat about military strikes in Yemen. The Atlantic's editor CONFIRMS Hegseth did discuss war plans in app

Longtime Washington DC journalist Goldberg was shocked to find himself part of what should have been a highly confidential conversation. 'It should go without saying—but I'll say it anyway—that I have never been invited to a White House principals-committee meeting, and that, in my many years of reporting on national-security matters, I had never heard of one being convened over a commercial messaging app,' he wrote in The Atlantic.

On the Bulwark podcast, Goldberg said his initial reaction to receiving the messages was, 'if this is real, why the hell do I have this?' Goldberg revealed that the chat also contained the name of a covert CIA agent.

'I withheld her name - they named somebody who's an active CIA officer in this thread which is on Signal - and I withheld it, I didn't put it in the story, because she's undercover,' he said. The shocking story shows operational details were unwittingly revealed. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host, is now under the microscope over the egregious failing.

Goldberg noted that 'Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted (him) the war plan at 11:44 a.m.' The bombs started dropping in Yemen around 2 p.m.

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Trump told reporters at the White House he hadn't seen The Atlantic story: 'I don't know anything about it. I'm not a big fan of the Atlantic. It's to me, it's a magazine that's going out of business.'

When pressed about the Signal chat, Trump said: 'It couldn't have been very effective, because the attack was very effective. I can tell you that I don't know anything about it. You're telling me about it for the first time.'

While speaking with reporters in Hawaii, Hegseth claimed that Goldberg had not got hold of the confidential messages.

'You're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again,' Hegseth said. On the Bulwark podcast, Miller asked Goldberg whether he would consider publishing the messages to demonstrate the legitimacy of his claim.

'Maybe in the coming days, I'll be able to let you know that, 'OK, I have a plan to have this material vetted publicly',' Goldberg said. 'But I'm not going to say that now, because there's a lot of conversations that have to happen about that.'

Goldberg doubled down, saying the group chat messages included 'who they were trying to kill in the next two hours'. He slammed Trump's team as 'defensive'.

'At moments like this, when they're under pressure because they've been caught with their hand in the cookie jar or whatever, you know, they will just literally say anything to get out of the moment,' Goldberg said.

'As much as I enjoy national security investigative reporting, I don't need strike plans two hours before a launch,' he added. 'That should not be coming into my phone. I mean, I take this stuff very, very seriously and I take the responsibility not to get Americans killed very, very seriously.'

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One would think as an American citizen, Goldberg should have announced he was on the thread, or just hang up, saying to himself, I'm spying on the Federal Government, by someone's mistake.

Where's is Waltz's assistant that put him on the thread? He had to have done that on purpose.

This was in the NBC article this a.m.

When asked what he was told about how Goldberg came to be added to the Signal chat, Trump said, “It was one of Michael’s people on the phone. A staffer had his number on there.”(Trump and Waltz know it was his assistant that put Goldberg on the call, wonder what Waltz asst got paid for that.)

"As the National Security Council stated, the White House is looking into how Goldberg’s number was inadvertently added to the thread,"she added.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-stands-national-security-adviser-leaked-military-plans-saying-mi-rcna197944