Top Trump administration officials accidentally messaged a journalist from The Atlantic with their plans for bombing Yemen.
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Welcome to The Logoff: Today Joshua Keating and I are focusing on top Trump administration officials accidentally messaging a journalist with their plans for bombing Yemen. It’s a bizarre story — and one with longstanding implications for our European allies’ ability to trust us with sensitive information.
Wait, what? The Atlantic revealed today that a top Trump official accidentally added Jeffrey Goldberg, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, to a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal earlier this month. With Goldberg reading, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, policy adviser Stephen Miller, and others discussed a potential attack on military targets in Yemen, where a group called the Houthis has been disrupting global trade by attacking passing ships.
