There is no question Houthi Signal chat included classified information

Published March 26, 2025 4:00pm ET



The Pentagon and intelligence community have continued to reel over the Trump administration‘s leak of deliberations, plans, and strike details pertaining to recent U.S. military action against the Yemen-based Houthi organization.

The leak occurred when the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally included in a chat thread on the Signal messaging app. The thread involved 17 senior Trump administration officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, national security adviser Mike Waltz, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe.

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