Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Monday delivered an expletive-laced reaction to reports that highly sensitive war plans were shared with a journalist who was somehow added to a Signal chat group of defense officials.
The colossal error was revealed by Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, who wrote Monday of his inadvertent inclusion in the messaging app where war plans about an imminent strike on Yemen were discussed among high-level Trump administration officials.
“From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of f---up imaginable,” Buttigieg wrote in a post on X. “These people cannot keep America safe.”
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While the former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate was clearly disturbed by the revelation – which stunned Capitol Hill – President Donald Trump on Monday lashed out at the magazine and denied he knew anything about the report.
"I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic,” Trump said. “To me, it's a magazine that's going out of business. I think it's not much of a magazine, but I know nothing about it."
Goldberg wrote that he believed top officials on the group chat included National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Director of National Security Tulsi Gabbard.
