US secret chat: Magazine publishes all messages

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US secret chat: Magazine publishes all messages

The affair about the explosive group chat of the Trump government is expanding. After this rejected the allegations and the integrity of the abunders questioned, they now open everything open.

In the secret chat affair, the government of US President Donald Trump is increasingly in trouble. After Trump’s team rejected all the allegations and questioned the integrity of the enthusiasts, the US magazine “The Atlantic” now opened the entire course of the chat. This shows that Defense Minister Pete Hegseth divided the schedule, the exact sequence of the bombing and the weapon systems used in detail about half an hour before the start of a US military operation against the Huthi militia in Yemen in mid-March.

The editor -in -chief of the magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, was – probably accidentally – was invited to the group chat of senior government members and was able to read the plans for the upcoming US military campaign in Yemen there live. He later made the dramatic security failure public with a long article. Since then, the Trump government has been in need of explanation – which is only intensified by the new details.

Members of the group chat were the top management heads on the national security of the United States: In addition to Hegseth, including Trump’s deputy JD Vance, Trump’s national security advisor Mike Waltz, the head of the US foreign intelligence service CIA, John Ratcliffe, and the secret service coordinator Tulsi Gabbard. Waltz had set up the group and added the Goldberg journalist.

It is already a break with the usual security standards that high -altitude government members replace sensitive information about the commercial app signal. The fact that details about an upcoming military strike were discussed there – in addition to the eyes of a reporter, whose presence nobody was aware of, is considered a security failure of immense extent.

The “Atlantic” magazine had initially only quoted in part from the chat history, but the military details from the security of US soldiers exuberantly left out the military details. However, Trump, Waltz and other participants and leading government members publicly claim that no confidential information was shared in the chat. Hegseth also vehemently denied “war plans”. Instead, they discredited the “Atlantic” and its editor -in -chief.

The magazine therefore opted for the publication of the delicate military passages. “There is a clear public interest in disclosing the type of information that Trump consultants have exchanged in uncertain communication channels,” wrote the magazine on the grounds-especially because the Trump government is trying to downplay the importance of the messages. Before the publication, various government members were asked if they had objections. Most would not have reacted. The white house was against the publication.

The news has it all. From the screenshots of the chat course it can be seen that on March 15, shortly before the start of the US military strike, details posted details on the planned process in the signal chat-including weather, start times of F-18 fight jets and drones and order of the attacks. Literally it says: “The target terrorist is on his well -known location.” In his message, he did not name exact places of the military actions.

Trump’s security advisor Waltz played this down again and wrote on the X platform about the new unveiling: “No locations. No sources and methods. No war plans.” In addition, foreign partners had already been informed about the upcoming attacks.

In a statement by the Pentagon, it was said a little later, the “Atlantic” spread misinformation. It is a “miserable attempt” of the magazine to distract from Trump’s security policy. The additionally published chat news confirmed that no secret information had been shared. Hegseth only informed the group about an ongoing assignment that had previously been communicated via official channels.