Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was adamant Monday that sensitive “war plans” were not being discussed in a Signal chat group that inadvertently included a journalist.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was adamant Monday that sensitive “war plans” were not being discussed in a Signal chat group that inadvertently included a journalist.
“Nobody was texting war plans and that’s all I have to say about that,” Hegseth told reporters in Hawaii when asked about a report in The Atlantic revealing a stunning breach of national security involving high-level Trump administration officials.
The magazine’s top editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, revealed in the piece that he was inadvertently included in a group text on the encrypted Signal app with Hegseth, Vice President JD Vance, national security adviser Mike Waltz and other Trump administration officials where internal deliberations and operational details about airstrikes against Houthi terrorists were discussed.
Goldberg was added to the Signal chain on March 11, well before the strikes in Yemen were carried out on March 15.
White House National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes told The Post earlier on Monday that messages included in Goldberg’s report appear to be “authentic” and said the NSC is “reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain.
