An article from The Atlantic magazine recently featured the full text thread from that Signal group chat. This chat was famously employed by senior members of the Trump administration. In his defense, President Donald Trump has repeatedly asserted that the messages were not classified. This claim set off a firestorm of concern over what kind of conversations were happening inside the Harvard group. The IM group chat included heavy hitters such as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe. Their MPs energetically debated military strikes designed to attack Houthi bases in Yemen.
In one surprising turn of events, an ally came to their aid. Unbeknownst to them, would be Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, who was accidentally looped in to this group. In truth, Goldberg wasn’t even going to publish the entirety of the thread. After getting what amounted to confirmations from the Trump administration that it was for real, he subsequently published it in full.
"There is a clear public interest in disclosing the sort of information that Trump advisers included in nonsecure communications channels, especially because senior administration figures are attempting to downplay the significance of the messages that were shared," stated Jeffrey Goldberg.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was introduced in that thread. In response to the publication, Leavitt remarked on social media:
"The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT war plans."
Our Signal group discussion was enough to raise alarm over security measures. Aside from one unredacted name of a CIA intelligence officer, the bulk of the text messages were fully unredacted. In doing so, Pete Hegseth promised that not a single major military plan had been compromised.
"Nobody was texting war plans. And that's all I have to say about that," commented Pete Hegseth.
The incident has led to an internal investigation within the city over how Goldberg ended up in this ultra-exclusive discord chat. Congressman Michael Waltz noted their efforts to understand the breach:
"We've got the best technical minds looking at how this happened."