{"id":3273,"date":"2025-04-27T10:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T10:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=3273"},"modified":"2025-04-27T10:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T10:17:06","slug":"pete-hegseths-brutal-response-to-journalist-added-to-war-plans-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=3273","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth\u2019s brutal response to journalist added to war plans group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"91\" data-end=\"402\"><strong data-start=\"91\" data-end=\"259\">Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of <em data-start=\"130\" data-end=\"144\">The Atlantic<\/em>, was accidentally added to a top-secret White House Signal chat discussing an upcoming military strike on Yemen.<\/strong> The group included 18 high-level officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and CIA Director Tulsi Gabbard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"404\" data-end=\"711\">Goldberg revealed the breach on Monday, saying National Security Adviser Mike Waltz had mistakenly added him to the chat titled \u201cHouthi PC small group,\u201d where sensitive details\u2014like targets and strike timing\u2014were shared. Goldberg claims Hegseth himself texted war plans two hours before the March 15 attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"713\" data-end=\"991\">Hegseth denied this, calling Goldberg a \u201cdiscredited\u201d journalist who \u201cpeddles in garbage,\u201d and criticized <em data-start=\"819\" data-end=\"833\">The Atlantic<\/em>\u2019s coverage. The Pentagon referred questions back to Hegseth, while Trump dismissed the story and mocked <em data-start=\"938\" data-end=\"952\">The Atlantic<\/em> as \u201ca magazine going out of business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"993\" data-end=\"1273\">Lawmakers, including Sen. Jack Reed and Sen. Roger Wicker, have raised alarms over the breach, calling it a dangerous lapse in security. Goldberg, in an interview with CNN\u2019s Kaitlan Collins, called the mistake outrageous, saying, \u201cThey\u2019re lucky they didn\u2019t send this to a Houthi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1275\" data-end=\"1387\">Now, the spotlight is on how such a serious security error happened\u2014and whether anyone will be held accountable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was accidentally added to a top-secret White House Signal chat discussing an upcoming military strike on Yemen. The group included 18 high-level officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and CIA Director Tulsi Gabbard. Goldberg revealed the breach on Monday, saying National Security Adviser Mike Waltz&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=3273\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Pete Hegseth\u2019s brutal response to journalist added to war plans group&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}