The Atlantic Magazine has published the full Signal chat between top Trump administration officials discussing the plans for military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.
The Atlantic published a partial account on Monday, March 24, 2025, of the apparent Yemen war plans shared by Trump officials in the Signal chat.
In that account, Editor-in-Chief, Jeffrey Goldberg detailed how he had been added to a group chat where high-level government officials were discussing military actions against the Houthis.
Monday’s report offered a broad-strokes description of what transpired in the chat. “The information contained in them, if they had been read by an adversary of the United States, could conceivably have been used to harm American military and intelligence personnel,” Goldberg wrote.
Today’s release contained the most sensitive details that the magazine initially decided to withhold, including the weapons used in the strikes and the targets of the attacks.
The most import of the newly published messages appear to have been sent on March 15, 2025, by an account seeming to belong to Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.
They include the times of strikes and the types of aircraft being used, as well as early reports about how effective the attacks against the Houthis were.
According to messages sent by a user named Pentagon Chief Hegseth, the US military used F-18 jets, Tomahawk missiles, and strike drones in the assault.
A message apparently sent by Waltz, Trump’s national security adviser, also identified the main target of one of the attacks as the Houthis’ “top missile guy.”
According to The Atlantic, Waltz sent a text containing real-time intelligence about conditions at an attack site that is believed to be in Yemen’s capita, Sanaa. “VP. Building collapsed. Had multiple positive ID. Pete, Kurilla, the IC, amazing job,” the message read, in an apparent reference to Hegseth; General Michael E. Kurilla, the Commander of Central Command; and the intelligence community.
Per Houthi officials’ accounts, the March 15 US air attacks on Yemen killed dozens of people, including many children and women.
The magazine asserted that the latest release on Wednesday,March 26, 2025, came after the administration of US President Donald Trump sought to downplay the significance of the texts shared on the Signal messaging app.
US President, Donald Trump has sought to dismiss allegations that government secrets were at risk. “There was no classified information, as I understand it,” Trump said on Tuesday at a meeting of US Ambassadors.
“ We’ve pretty much looked into it. It’s pretty simple, to be honest. It’s just something that can happen.”
Donald Trump
The Republican leader also told reporters he had no intention of seeking punishments, barring the use of the Signal messaging app or asking for an apology from those involved.
Report Slammed
White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, slammed The Atlantic for its latest report.
She wrote on X, “This entire story was another hoax written by a Trump-hater who is well-known for his sensationalist spin.”
Democrats, however, renewed their calls for Hegseth and other top Trump administration officials to resign over the leaked chat.
Senator Mark Kelly wrote on social media, “The Signal incident is what happens when you have the most unqualified Secretary of Defense we’ve ever seen.”
“We’re lucky it didn’t cost any servicemembers their lives, but for the safety of our military and our country, Secretary Hegseth needs to resign.”
Mark Kelly
Congressman Maxwell Alejandro Frost said that the latest report from The Atlantic makes “clear that this was a massive breach of our national security.” He added, “Had this very specific plan gotten in the wrong hands, Americans would be dead right now, Waltz and Hegseth must be fired immediately.”
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