Atlantic editor insists he saw minute-by-minute play of how US would bomb Yemen in stunning group text snafu
The Atlantic magazine’s editor in chief has insisted he saw “minute-by-minute accounting” of how the US intended to bomb Yemen — despite Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth adamantly denying sensitive war plans were ever discussed in the bombshell group text scandal.The mag’s top editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, revealed Monday that he was inadvertently included in a Signal message chain earlier this month in which top Trump administration officials — including Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance — discussed strikes against the Houthi terror group in Yemen.
In an interview with MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki” just hours after the stunning breach of national security surfaced, Goldberg doubled down — claiming he saw a play-by-play of “what was about to happen” with the strikes.“Look, I’m going to be responsible here and not disclose the things that I read and saw.
I will describe them to you,” Goldberg said.“The specific time of a future attack; specific targets, including human targets meant to be killed in that attack; weapon system; even weather reports.“I mean, the precise detail, and then a long section on sequencing: ‘This is gonna happen, then that is gonna happen.
After that happens, this happens, then that happens, and then we go and find out if it worked’,” he added.Goldberg hit back after Hegseth poured cold water on the editor’s reporting, arguing that sensitive “war plans” were not being discussed in the Signal chat group and that the editor had a history of being “deceitful and highly discredited.”“I mean, you know, he can say that it wasn’t a war plan, but it was a minute-by-minute accounting of what was about to happen, organized by CENTCOM, Central Command, which is the military oversight group of the Middle East, the broader Middle East,” Goldberg said.“It’s interesting because as I’m reading it at 11:44 a.m.
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