Trump officials planned a military strike over Signal – with a magazine editor on the line
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Summary
Following the deployment of a US military strike on Yemen, The Atlantic has revealed how editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a “Houthi PC Small Group” chat on the Signal app, which included high-ranking officials from the Trump administration, including the Vice President, JD Vance, and cabinet-level officials, exposing how an impending bombing attack was discussed and planned hours before the attack took place.
Goldberg expressed his uncertainty as to how he became a part of the chat, with the conversation regarding top-secret military plans generally prohibited on consumer messaging apps.
Signal’s end-to-end encryption was intended to protect the conversation from any outside parties, but the exposure of the chat has since raised questions over the platform’s security features.
After the attack took place, group members celebrated the operation using celebratory emojis, with Vance, the Vice President, also questioning whether the president was aware of the inconsistency of the attack with his previous messaging on Europe.