Pete Hegseth Yemen military chat leak
Was Secretary of Pete Hegseth Yemen military chat leak higher than a cooter brown when he allegedly added Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic, to a classified group chat discussing military strikes in Yemen?
According to The Associated Press, the March 11 mishap has sparked a full-blown internal investigation, raising serious national security concerns across party lines.
The encrypted Signal group chat, bizarrely titled “Houthi PC small group,” was initiated by Hegseth and included high-level officials such as Vice President JD Vance and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz. But in what experts are calling an unprecedented breach, Goldberg — a civilian journalist — was mistakenly added to the confidential thread.
“I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling,” Goldberg told reporters, later publishing a detailed exposé on The Atlantic website.
Over the following days, the group reportedly discussed target strategies, operational details, North Carolina news and airstrike planning — all while unknowingly being observed by the head of a major media outlet. Goldberg, stunned by the oversight, kept receipts. His report has since gone viral and ignited bipartisan outrage on Capitol Hill.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer didn’t mince words, calling the slip-up, “one of the most stunning breaches of military intelligence that I have read about in a very, very long time.”
The National Security Council has confirmed the authenticity of the leaked chat and announced a sweeping internal review to determine how such a critical mistake happened in the first place.
Still, Hegseth is downplaying the incident, claiming, “Nobody was texting war plans,” and slamming The Atlantic for its coverage. But critics argue the use of Signal, an app not authorized for classified communications, reflects a disturbing lack of protocol at the highest levels of government.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just landed in Hawaii and was asked about the Yemen Signal group chat.
His response was to attack The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, whom Trump has long despised.
He refers to Goldberg as a “deceitful and highly discredited, so-called… pic.twitter.com/Cw1qrLX7Fh
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 24, 2025
When questioned about the incident, Trump stated, “I don’t know anything about it. I’m not a big fan of The Atlantic. To me, it’s a magazine that’s going out of business. I think it’s not much of a magazine, but I know nothing about it.”
