Hegseth isn't upholding standards he vowed he would
By Patricia Murphy / The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I feel like I spend all of my time lately beating up on the Trump administration. But as they say in the military, it’s a target-rich environment.
The Trump team’s latest offense is also its most dangerous; a group chat on the encrypted, but unclassified, text messaging app Signal, finalizing the details of an attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen. Included on the text chain were the highest ranking members of the president’s national security team, from Vice President J.D. Vance to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and others.
Unnoticed by the rest of the group, Waltz also accidentally added Jeffrey Goldberg, the top editor at The Atlantic, who read the messages planning the attack in real time and then published some of what he learned Monday under the headline, “The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war plans.” He thought it was a joke, he wrote, until the bombs started dropping.
The most sensitive information, including the exact day and time of the attack, was shared by Hegseth, along with a text to the vice president about European “freeloading.”
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