March 26, 2025 (EIRNS)— The Atlantic published the entire text of the Signal message thread among top U.S. national security officials today, following earlier claims made by some of those officials, and President Trump himself, that no classified information was discussed in that thread. The thread, for reasons still not fully explained, included Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
At 11:44 a.m. Eastern Time on March 15, the chat shows that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth posted in all caps, “TEAM UPDATE: TIME NOW (1144et): Weather is FAVORABLE. Just CONFIRMED w/CENTCOM we are a GO for mission launch.” In the same message, Hegseth confirms that the first strike of F-18s from the USS Harry Truman were set to launch at 12:15 and arrive in the target area at 13:45. Further operational details were also provided of U.S. strikes on Yemen hours before they happened. In fact, Goldberg wrote on Monday, March 24, that he knew two hours before the first bomb fell that the U.S. was going to bomb Yemen.
“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,” Goldberg and his colleague Shane Harris wrote today.
