Full Yemen struggle plans in bombshell Signal chat between Trump officers launched
The full Yemen war plans texted in a group chat between top Trump administration officials over encrypted chat service Signal have been released by The Atlantic.
On Monday, the editor in chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg revealed he was added to an unclassified group chat involving several of Trump’s most important cabinet members discussing Yemen war plans.
Withheld from their previous report were any messages about specific timings, weapons or other plans.
But after President Donald Trump and multiple administration officials in the Signal group chat denied any classified information was discussed on the application, the publication decided it was necessary to publish screenshots claiming otherwise.
Specifically, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who went as far this week to deny that this chat was legitimate, laid out timelines, specific fighter jets and drone strikes as well as other weapons systems used to drop bombs on Yemen.
Hegseth, the morning of March 15, provided a team update in the ‘Houthi PC small group’ chat where he confirmed Central Command (Centcom) ‘are a GO for mission launch’ and noted the use of F-18s and MQ-9 drone launches to be used in the ‘strike window’ on the ‘target terrorist.’
Centcom is the military’s combatant command for the Middle East.
He then provided a timeline of launches for the bombings and specific weapons used in the attacks a full 31 minutes before the first U.S. warplanes launched and two hours before a Houthi ‘target terrorists’ was expected to be killed by this aircraft’s bombs.
‘Godspeed to our Warriors,’ he wrote in one message in the chat that mistakenly included Goldberg.
Many of the new messages Goldberg shared in his follow-up article include Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (pictured) detailing the weapons systems and timings of the strikes before they were carried out earlier this month
During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, National Security Advisor Mike Watlz denied that any classified information was discussed in the chat. Waltz was the one who appeared to inadvertently add Goldberg to the ‘Houthi PC small group’ chat on Signal
Goldberg claims in his follow-up report: ‘If this text had been received by someone hostile to American interests—or someone merely indiscreet, and with access to social media—the Houthis would have had time to prepare for what was meant to be a surprise attack on their strongholds.’
‘The consequences for American pilots could have been catastrophic.’
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe, who were both in the already-infamous Signal chat, were part of a Senate hearing on worldwide threats on Tuesday.
The timing of the public questioning was right after the initial Atlantic report revealing the use of a communications app to discuss specific plans to bomb Yemen.
Gabbard and Ratcliffe – alongside FBI Director Kash Patel – were asked about the chat during the hearing and repeatedly denied that any classified information was discussed.
‘There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal group,’ Gabbard told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
The chat was initiated by National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and inadvertently included Goldberg, who published a story on the chat only after the attack was carried out in Yemen.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were among those in the Signal group chat – they appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday for an aptly-timed hearing on worldwide threats
