The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=kPTlqn0J1iP9IBZcsdI5IVJpB2t9BYyxpzU4sooa69M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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> I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that **Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m.** The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.
So was Hegseth day-drinking or still just drunk from the night before?
The Sec Def is the leaker? Lol.
This is just a small clue to the incompetence of the second Trump administration. It’s a joke disguised by random deportations and intentional cruelty to seniors.
This is one of those stories that in any other time would be massive front page news for days, and I bet it barely gets a headline on the major networks. I bet if I go and ask my friends and family about it this weekend no one will have any idea what I’m talking about.
This is absolutely wild.
Learned from Rudy?
Pete Hegseth shouldn’t be chosen to run a glory hole–let alone been appointed to US Secretary of Defense. This will be dismissed as a “nothingburger” because the adults are no longer in the room.
DUI hire doing DUI things
What this tells me is that if Trump does decide to order an invasion of Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Panama or any other place… it is going to be a clusterfuck that gets our soldiers needlessly killed, because the victim of Trump’s rage will know what is coming well ahead of time.
We are so goddamn fucked.
I’m pretty concerned with the, seemingly on purpose, destruction of information that should be kept on record.
I’m willing to bet they use signal because they can delete the messages, you know, in case what they’re doing is a crime.
“Vote for a clown, get a circus.”
Your country is run by morons who will kill us all — including you.
This is fucking wild.
“The information contained in them, if they had been read by an adversary of the United States, could conceivably have been used to harm American military and intelligence personnel, particularly in the broader Middle East, Central Command’s area of responsibility. What I will say, in order to illustrate the shocking recklessness of this Signal conversation, is that the Hegseth post contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the U.S. would be deploying, and attack sequencing.”
TLDR: Author of the article, Jeffery Goldberg, Editor-in-Chief of The Atlantic, says several times that he will not quote certain information in the interests of safety of active agents and real-time intelligence info. From clips of the convo he did include, it appears that top-level people in the President’s cabinet fracked up major. **Someone included** ***the editor in chief of The Atlantic*** **in an insecure online messaging discussion of the attack. And nobody noticed or questioned who “JG” was while they debated a military action.**
How horrific is it that the editor in chief of The Atlantic is more aware of the need for cybersecurity and intelligence security than, well, *everyone* in the current administration?
Frankly, I think they would also have neglected to notice if the initials of the unknown party in their work group had been “VP”.
“The Hegseth message goes on to state, “Waiting a few weeks or a month does not fundamentally change the calculus. 2 immediate risks on waiting: **1) this leaks, and we look indecisive;**”
No worries Hegseth, no chance of this leaking! /s
Remember when they wanted to lock up Hillary Clinton for sending and receiving emails?
They accidentally included the editor-in-chief of a national magazine on their War plans. When the editor left their group chat it would have sent out a message to everybody on the group chat that he had left – *but no one on the group chat even noticed.*
Yeah in normal times this would be a major, major scandal and be front Page News.
This is a really good article (the one by Jeffrey Goldblum in The Atlantic). Recommend finding it if you don’t have paywall.
>In his text detailing aspects of the forthcoming attack on Houthi targets, Hegseth wrote to the group—which, at the time, included me—“We are currently clean on OPSEC.”
😂 Oh that’s one for the history books. (If we should be so lucky)
Incredible work guys. This is what happens when you appoint drunk Fox News hosts and podcasters to national security roles instead of professionals. Though some like Rubio and Gabbard should know better, you’d think
Better question is why are they using signal or any communication method that hasn’t been vetted by the government to be secured.
holy shit this is an insane blunder. Who else was in that group that shouldn’t have been? These people are just throwing out national secrets like they’re discussing how to spend a marketing budget
Remember when Hillary’s email handling was disqualifying
This is a remarkable story, and should be a huge scandal.
Jesus Effing Christ. I get told every day by the dumb shit I work with that none of them are incompetent; that they’re just joking or trolling or playing 4D chess.
They’re the biggest bunch of dumbfuck idiot knucklewalkers who ever walked the earth. I don’t know how they even manage to drink water without dying. I feel like the fact that they’re still alive must prove Darwin wrong.
What, and I cannot stress this enough, *the actual fuck?*
JD Vance quote FTA:
> “I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message onJD Europe right now. There’s a further risk that we see a moderate to severe spike in oil prices. I am willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself. But there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc.”
As we all know, JD Vance and the rest of the administration are well aware that Trump has no clue what is going on and admits this behind Trump’s back, but cannot raise even the tiniest disagreements to Trump’s face.
This headline WILDLY under emphasizes how bad this was.
US VP, SecDef, and other cabinet level officials used a method of communication to discuss battle plans, share attack specs including targets, timing, and armaments, and did it over a channel that is not subject to Information Retention standards or approved as a secure method. The information they shared was only to be shared from within a SCIF.
And the kicker is that one of them accidentally added a reporter and NOBODY FUCKING NOTICED.
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