(NewsNation) — The Atlantic released screenshots that appear to show Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth laying out a timeline of a planned attack on the Houthis in a chat on the app Signal.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted in the chat:
“TEAM UPDATE: “TIME NOW (1144et): Weather is FAVORABLE. Just CONFIRMED w/CENTCOM we are a GO for mission launch.”
Pete hegseth in the signal chat published by the atlantic
He then listed several planned launches and strikes over the course of the next four hours, such as, “1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package).”
You can read The Atlantic’s full article here.
Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, who was inadvertently added to a group chat on the Signal messaging app, on Monday published an account of officials accidentally leaking what he called “war plans” to him.
Following blowback from administration officials about the wording of his article, Goldberg on Wednesday released them for the public.
