Once upon a time, journalists waited months or years for classified leaks. In 2025, all it took was a Signal invite. That’s how Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg found himself inside the highest-level US national security conversation about bombing Houthi targets in Yemen. The chat, blandly titled “Houthi PC small group,” was anything but ordinary. It…
Top Donald Trump administration officials inadvertently included a journalist in a sensitive group on Signal messaging app shortly before launching attacks on Yemen’s rebel Houthis.The Atlantic‘s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added in the classified group just before the US launched military strikes against the Houthis.The classified group chat, named “Houthi PC small group,” included high-level…
Donald Trump administration revealed its war plan to a journalist by mistake, Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg claimed. In a major foot-in-mouth moment for the Donald Trump administration, Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg claimed that he got to know about the plan of US bombing the Houthis two hours before it actually happened because Defense Secretary Pete…
