New Messages From Government Signal Group Released; White House Responds

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The Atlantic obtained the messages

The Atlantic on March 26 published more messages from the Signal group that included top U.S. officials, including Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added to the group, which officials said is being investigated, as the chat turned to planning an attack on Houthi terrorists in the Middle East. The outlet had declined to release all of the messages, saying some of them โ€œif they had been read by an adversary of the United States, could conceivably have been used to harm American military and intelligence personnel.โ€

After President Donald Trump and others, including Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, said that neither war plans nor classified information was shared in the group, the outlet on Wednesday published the rest of the alleged messages in a story titled, โ€œHere Are the Attack Plans That Trumpโ€™s Advisers Shared on Signal.โ€

They include Hegseth allegedly stating the exact time drone strikes would occur, as well as when F-18s would launch.

โ€œThe statements by Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, and Trumpโ€”combined with the assertions made by numerous administration officials that we are lying about the content of the Signal textsโ€”have led us to believe that people should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions,โ€ Goldberg and his coauthor said. โ€œThere is a clear public interest in disclosing the sort of information that Trump advisers included in nonsecure communications channels, especially because senior administration figures are attempting to downplay the significance of the messages that were shared.โ€

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on social media platform X after the messages were released that โ€œThe Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT โ€˜war plans.โ€™โ€

โ€œThey backpedaled the whole โ€˜war plansโ€™ thing really really fast,โ€ the U.S. Department of Defense, which Hegseth heads, said.

The original Atlantic article said the discussion involved โ€œwar plans.โ€ The new article does not include that phrase.

Trump has said that the government would likely not use Signal, a messaging application, moving forward.

โ€œWe may be forced to use it. You may be in a situation where you need speed as opposed to gross safety, and you may be forced to use it, but generally speaking, I think we probably wonโ€™t be using it very much,โ€ he told reporters at the White House on Tuesday.

The president also said he still backs national security adviser Michael Waltz, who has taken responsibility for the addition of Goldberg to the group and has faced calls to step down or be fired.

โ€œWe are looking into and reviewing how the heck he got into this room,โ€ Waltz told reporters.

Byย Zachary Stieber

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