The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who reported on being accidentally added to a group chat used by US officials to discuss sensitive information about military strikes on Yemen, refuted United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's statement that "nobody was texting war plans."
"No, that's a lie. He was texting war plans. He was texting attack plans — when targets were going to be targeted, how they were going to be targeted, who was at the targets, when the next sequence of attacks were happening," Goldberg told CNN in response to Hegseth's comments. He said that he didn't include specific plans in his article because he thought it was "too confidential, too technical" and that publishing that information could endanger US military personnel.
"What's in the public interest is that they were running a war plan on a messaging app, and didn't even know who was invited into the conversation," Goldberg said.
