The Atlantic journalist and chief editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, said the statement of the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, that “no one was sending war plans by text message” was a lie.
In an interview with CNNOn Monday (24), Goldberg said the main members of Donald Trump’s office were about US military attacks in Yemen in a group chat to which he was accidentally added.
“No, this is a lie. He was sending war plans by text message. He was sending attack plans by text message – when the targets would be shot, as they would be shot, who was in the targets, when the next sequence of attacks would happen.”
Jeffrey Goldberg
The journalist said he did not include specific plans in his history, published on Monday, because he felt it was “very confidential, very technical” and that revealing the information to the public could endanger the American military staff.
“What is in the public interest is that they were running a war plan in a messaging application and did not even know who was invited to the conversation,” he said.
Goldberg said he initially thought he was undergoing a foreign intelligence influence operation. After he realized that he withdrew himself and began to write the story “to expose security violation.”
“I can’t go into detail, all the decision making involved in this,” he noted. “But I found out what I needed to find out,” he added.
The Trump administration, sent by the non-governmental signing encrypted chat application, seem to be authentic.
When asked if he had discovered who should be added to the chat, Goldberg said it could have been “an incorrectly typed name. It doesn’t necessarily have to be someone with JG initials.”
