They Texted WHAT?! They. Freaking. Texted WAR PLANS?!

A Journalist, a Wrong Number, and a Security Breach That'll Make Your Jaw Drop

March 24, 2025

In what might be the most jaw-dropping national security blunder of the year, senior Trump administration officials accidentally added Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, to their private Signal chat group discussing classified military operations against Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Imagine this: you're Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. You're just minding your own business, probably sipping some fancy coffee and pondering the state of the world, when your phone starts blowing up with a series of cryptic messages. Not cat memes or grocery lists, but detailed military operational plans.

Yeah, war plans.

Turns out, senior Trump administration officials, in what can only be described as a national security blunder of epic proportions, accidentally added Goldberg to their private Signal chat group, "Houthi PC small group." This wasn't some casual chit-chat, either. We're talking Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and special Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff. The big guns.

And what were they discussing? Oh, just the small matter of classified military operations against Houthi rebels in Yemen.

On March 15th, Hegseth, apparently without a second thought, shared "operational details of upcoming strikes on Yemen, including target information, the weapons the U.S. would deploy, and the sequence of attacks." Hours later, those very strikes were carried out.

Goldberg found himself with a front-row seat to a high-stakes military operation, a real-time glimpse into the inner workings of government decision-making. He initially thought the messages might be part of a disinformation campaign designed to entrap journalists, but eventually realized he was witnessing an unprecedented security lapse in real-time. "I've never seen a breach quite like this," he wrote in his explosive article titled "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans"

The National Security Council, in a stunning display of understatement, confirmed the authenticity of the messages, stating they are "reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain." In other words, "Oops, we totally messed up."

The implications are staggering. We're talking about potentially classified military information being sent via unsecured text messages. It's like leaving the nuclear launch codes on a sticky note.

This isn't just a "WTF" moment; it's a "WTF, are you kidding me?" moment. It's a stark reminder that in the digital age, even the most sensitive information can be just a thumb-slip away from disaster.

How did this happen? Who authorized this? And, most importantly, what else is floating around out there, just a wrong number away from chaos?

The Atlantic article is a wild ride. You're gonna be shaking your head and saying, "WTF!" the whole time.

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