Those are definitely War Plans in The Atlantic
A Defense Secretary confronted with a security violation: Why did Pete Hegseth call Goldberg on “The Atlantic”?
Some people might think that sharing plans for an attack hours before the attack would cause problems, but the reality is that the Houthis can move their weapons away from targeted locations. They could move senior officials away from the locations that are being targeted to be less effective. They could choose to, for example, launch missiles themselves to attack before they are attacked, an action that could be incredibly costly in lives and in ships. They could move some of their senior leaders.
The administration is saying now that there was nothing classified in the chat and they weren’t really war plans, in many ways, casting aspersions on Goldberg’s integrity. In fact, when Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, was confronted with these facts, he attacked Goldberg and did not acknowledge his own wrongdoing. There is no officer who would survive a security violation like this.
From the very first weeks that you’re a member of the military, you start learning about operational security. This is drilled into police officers. Relief from command would be instantaneous, because of those consequences.
In the civilian context, and Pete Hegseth is a civilian, there should be an immediate Department of Justice investigation into how this happened. There are so many questions that arise that the Department of Justice should be answering. Why were they using the Signal app, which the Pentagon has warned members of the military against using for Department of Defense business? The person on the chat was not immediately known. Were they directly posting in it? Were they posting through subordinates? How often do you see sensitive business conducted on Signal?
The Atlantic didn’t concede anything. It used a phrase that means ” attack plans”, and anyone reading his description of what American service members were about to do can have no doubt that he revealed secret military details. He said that the F-18 1st Strike Window needs to be on time, as well as Strike Drones Launch. A few minutes before the first warplanes took off, he said a group of sea-based Tomahawk missiles had been launched, which would give vital information to an enemy. After the assault was over, he told the group that the U.S. had a positive ID of a Houthi leader walking into a building that was bombed.
According to the new texts released by The Atlantic, members of the administration are not only terrible at security, but have a great disregard for the people around them. For the past two days, in fact, it has become obvious that the administration’s definition of OPSEC is very different from a regular person’s. The White House only sees the term to mean bending reality, so that the official narrative of this embarrassment makes an innocent administration the victim of a left wing media conspiracy.
The entire story was a hoax and written by someone who hates Trump, according to the White House press secretary. She said that The Atlantic conceded that these were not war plans.