Jeffrey Goldberg Responds to Hegseth’s Denial About Leaked War Plans: ‘It Was a Minute-by-Minute Accounting’
The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg responded to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s denial that war plans were shared in a group messaging app, Monday, claiming he saw a “minute-by-minute” accounting of how the U.S. military would bomb Yemen.
Goldberg revealed on Monday that he had been sent top secret war plans after being accidentally invited to a group chat of senior Trump administration officials on the messaging app Signal.
“You’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again,” reacted Hegseth to Goldberg’s report. “Nobody was texting war plans and that’s all I have to say about that.”
On MSNBC’s Inside with Jen Psaki, however, Goldberg claimed to have seen a “minute-by-minute accounting” of plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen.
“Look, I’m going to be responsible here and not disclose the things that I read and saw. I will describe them to you,” Goldberg told MSNBC host Jen Psaki. “The specific time of a future attack; specific targets, including human targets meant to be killed in that attack; weapon system; even weather reports.”
He continued:
I mean, the precise detail, and then a long section on sequencing: “This is gonna happen, then that is gonna happen. After that happens, this happens, then that happens, and then we go and find out if it worked.” I mean, you know, he can say that it wasn’t a war plan, but it was a minute-by-minute accounting of what was about to happen, organized by CENTCOM, Central Command, which is the military oversight group of the Middle East, the broader Middle East. This is their plan and he was taking their plan and sharing it with a bunch of civilian leaders.
It’s interesting because as I’m reading it at 11:44 A.M. on Saturday morning, the 15th, seeing that the Houthis are not going to know about this for another couple of hours, and I know about it, and I’m thinking to myself, I mean, honestly, I’m thinking to myself, well, I’m glad that Mike Waltz didn’t invite a Houthi into the group or a Russian spy or an adversary of the United States.
Goldberg recalled, “I’m reading this and I’m wondering not only why am I reading this, but why would the secretary of the treasury need to know the precise attack sequence of this upcoming operation?”
More on the Trump Admin War Plan Leak:
- Trump Dismisses Bombshell War Plans Leak as a ‘Glitch,’ Goes to Bat for NSA Mike Waltz: He ‘Learned His Lesson’
- Wall Street Journal Calls Out JD Vance for Trying to ‘Block’ Trump’s Strikes on Houthis: ‘Mr. Trump Now Knows’
- Fox’s Peter Doocy Mocks Trump Admin Over Cabinet Group Chat: ‘Well, They Did Promise to Be the Most Transparent White House Ever’
- ‘That’s A Lie!’ Jeffrey Goldberg Smacks Down Hegseth Denial Over Blockbuster Leak
- Fox’s Lawrence Jones Makes Excuse for Sharing ‘Top Secret’ War Plans on Signal: ‘They All Use It’
- CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Destroys Trump Admin Over Bombshell Leak — With Brutal Cuts of Their Own Words
He concluded, “The whole thing is just very flummoxing to me because I haven’t seen this kind of unserious behavior before, and the secretary of defense, all due respect, in that presentation seems like a person who’s unserious and is trying to deflect from the fact that he participated in a conversation on an unclassified commercial messaging app that he probably shouldn’t have participated in.”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) shrugged off the major security blunder on Fox News, Monday, accusing Democrats of “griping about who’s on a text message.”
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