All posts tagged "Jeffrey Goldberg"

The Pentagon's watchdog review found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "risked endangering troops" when he used Signal to share war plans, according to reports Wednesday.

The report is still classified and has not been publicly released. The inspector general for the Pentagon did conclude that Hegseth "risked compromising sensitive information," according to an exclusive CNN report.

The inspector general has been investigating Hegseth's use of Signal since April and has concluded he should not have used this to communicate specific war plans and the impact could have been "dire," CNN reported. ...

Hillary Clinton's name has been bandied about recently as a retort for anyone criticizing the Trump administration's involvement in Signalgate. Yet, as Slate put it, the fact that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared specific plans on an imminent attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen via an unsecured app, "is a much bigger security breach than Hillary Clinton's emails."

Just days before the 2016 presidential election, the FBI revealed that it was reopening an investigation into Clinton's use of a private server to send sensitive government emails. The revelation was believed to be one of the factors that lost her the election to Donald Trump.

This week Clinton responded on X, "You have got to be kidding me," after The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg published his article this week revealing that he had been inadvertently included in the messaging chain that revealed the targets, timing, and weapons being used in the bombing raid hours before it happened....

Sen. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) came down hard on witnesses testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday who still refused to call the information leaked through a Signal group chat "classified."

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and director of the National Security Agency Timothy Haugh answered the Senate's questions Wednesday, a day after the House Intelligence Committee demanded answers.

Ever since The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published his story about the sensitive "war plans" detailing a bombing run on Yemen that he witnessed after being mysteriously added to the group chat, the Trump administration and GOP lawmakers have maintained that the information was not classified and that Goldberg was perpetuating a "hoax." ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who's in the middle of the Signal messaging app scandal that inadvertently revealed an impending military strike to a journalist, made an angry post on social media Wednesday once again denying that "war plans" were revealed.

"So, let’s me get this straight," Hegseth began on Wednesday.

"The Atlantic released the so-called 'war plans' and those 'plans' include: No names. No targets. No locations. No units. No routes. No sources. No methods. And no classified information. Those are some really s----y war plans."...

Republican talking points on the leaked Signal chat revealing air strike plans against Houthi rebels in Yemen have veered from "the information wasn't classified" to the whole thing "was a hoax" perpetrated by The Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg.

Goldberg was inadvertently added to the chat by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who took responsibility for the mistake.

But on Wednesday, Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) floated a new theory on CNN. ...

New reporting in Politico says President Donald Trump wasn't just "upset" with Mike Waltz for being involved in the leaked war plans chat to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg — Trump was "suspicious."

Publicly, Trump gave his full-throated support of his national security advisor, who inadvertently added Goldberg to the chat detailing an upcoming air strike on the Houthi rebels in Yemen, telling NBC's Garrett Haake, "Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he's a good man."

"Despite spending Monday questioning whether Waltz needed to resign, the White House and its allies on Tuesday sought to downplay the sensitivity of the information shared in the group chat," the report stated. "Officials suggested the national security community, in collaboration with the media, was making a bigger deal out of the issue than it was, arguing the material was not classified and suggesting Goldberg had sensationalized the content."...