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Showing Original Post only (View all)The Atlantic has now published the Signal texts with attack plans in response to administration denials. [View all]
Ryan Goodman
@rgoodlaw.bsky.social
The Atlantic has now published the Signal texts with attack plans in response to administration denials.
I worked at the Pentagon.
If information like this is not classified, nothing is.
If Hegseth is claiming he declassified this information, he should be shown the door for having done so.
March 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
https://bsky.app/profile/rgoodlaw.bsky.social/post/3llbsx5c5as2u
@rgoodlaw.bsky.social
The Atlantic has now published the Signal texts with attack plans in response to administration denials.
I worked at the Pentagon.
If information like this is not classified, nothing is.
If Hegseth is claiming he declassified this information, he should be shown the door for having done so.
March 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
https://bsky.app/profile/rgoodlaw.bsky.social/post/3llbsx5c5as2u
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trumps Advisers Shared on Signal
So, about that Signal chat.
On Monday, shortly after we published a story about a massive Trump-administration security breach, a reporter asked the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, why he had shared plans about a forthcoming attack on Yemen on the Signal messaging app. He answered, Nobody was texting war plans. And thats all I have to say about that.
At a Senate hearing yesterday, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe, were both asked about the Signal chat, to which Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, was inadvertently invited by National Security Adviser Michael Waltz. There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal group, Gabbard told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Ratcliffe said much the same: My communications, to be clear, in the Signal message group were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information.
President Donald Trump, asked yesterday afternoon about the same matter, said, It wasnt classified information.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/
So, about that Signal chat.
On Monday, shortly after we published a story about a massive Trump-administration security breach, a reporter asked the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, why he had shared plans about a forthcoming attack on Yemen on the Signal messaging app. He answered, Nobody was texting war plans. And thats all I have to say about that.
At a Senate hearing yesterday, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe, were both asked about the Signal chat, to which Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, was inadvertently invited by National Security Adviser Michael Waltz. There was no classified material that was shared in that Signal group, Gabbard told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Ratcliffe said much the same: My communications, to be clear, in the Signal message group were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information.
President Donald Trump, asked yesterday afternoon about the same matter, said, It wasnt classified information.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/

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The Atlantic has now published the Signal texts with attack plans in response to administration denials. [View all]
demmiblue
Mar 26
OP
They're like little children in their complete inability to give up a lie when caught flatfooted ...
marble falls
Mar 26
#5
We'll have to wait til NEXT November (2026, that is) for Dems to take the majority.
calimary
Mar 26
#81
That is the point Pete Buttigieg was so pissed off about: It put US military personnel at risk unnecessarily.
Attilatheblond
Mar 26
#54
OMG... lol: Pete Hegseth was worried his war plans would leak while on a Signal group chat with a reporter
demmiblue
Mar 26
#17
"Precise operational issues were not part of this conversation?" Tulsi Gabbard replied: "Correct."
demmiblue
Mar 26
#21
Were the lying liars really banking on the editor not releasing the full transcript?
NH Ethylene
Mar 26
#24
And he didn't wait two or three years to write a book and do a book tour about it.
Autumn
Mar 26
#26
And he didn't wait two or three years to write a book and do a book tour about it.
Autumn
Mar 26
#27
Confirming, as was obvious from context already, that this wasn't a one-off. They are routinely using Signal to evade...
demmiblue
Mar 26
#28
If some large heads (TG, PH) don't roll for this then I'm afraid we, the USofA, are truly done.
sarchasm
Mar 26
#42
This is REALLY the lame-ass defense they are going with? They were "attack plans" not "war plans"?
demmiblue
Mar 26
#38