« Atlantic » publishes all news from US secret chat

In the Secret chat affair the government of US President Donald Trump is increasingly in trouble. After Trump’s team rejected all the allegations and questioned the integrity of the enthusiasts, the US magazine « The Atlantic » now opened the entire course of the chat. This shows that Defense Minister Pete Hegseth divided the schedule, the exact sequence of the bombing and the weapon systems used in detail about half an hour before the start of a US military operation against the Huthi militia in Yemen in mid-March.

The editor-in-chief of the magazine, Jeffrey Goldberg, was accidentally invited to the group chat in the group chat and was able to read the plans for the upcoming US military campaign in Yemen there live. He later made the dramatic security failure public with a long article. Since then, the Trump government has been in need of explanation-which is only intensified by the new details.

Security failure of immense extent

Members of the group chat were the top management heads on the national security of the United States: In addition to Hegseth, including Trump’s deputy JD Vance, Trump’s national security advisor Mike Waltz, the head of the US foreign intelligence service CIA, John Ratcliffe, and the secret service coordinator Tulsi Gabbard. Waltz had set up the group and added the Goldberg journalist.

It is already a break with the usual security standards that high -altitude government members replace sensitive information about the commercial app signal. The fact that details about an upcoming military strike were discussed there – in addition to the eyes of a reporter, whose presence nobody was aware of, is considered a security failure of immense extent.

Trump government: no confidential information

The « Atlantic » magazine had initially only quoted in part from the chat history, but the military details from the security of US soldiers exuberantly left out the military details. However, Trump, Waltz and other participants and leading government members publicly claim that no confidential information was shared in the chat. Hegseth also vehemently denied that he has sent « war plans ». Instead, they discredited the « Atlantic » and its editor -in -chief.

The magazine therefore opted for the publication of the delicate military passages. « There is a clear public interest in disclosing the type of information that Trump consultants have exchanged in uncertain communication channels, » wrote the magazine on the grounds-especially because the Trump government is trying to downplay the importance of the news. Before the publication, various government members were asked if they had objections. Most would not have reacted. The white house was against the publication.

Weather, fighter jet start time, order

The news has it all. The screenshots of the chat course show that Hegseth posted details on the planned process in the signal chat on March 15th shortly before the start of the US military strike-including the weather, start times of F-18 fight jets and drones and order of the attacks. Literally it says: « The target terrorist is on his well -known location. » In his message, he did not name exact places of the military actions.

Trump’s security advisor Waltz played this down again and wrote on the X platform about the new unveiling: « No locations. No sources and methods. No war plans. » In addition, foreign partners had already been informed about the upcoming attacks.

In a statement by the Pentagon, it was a little later that the « Atlantic » spread misinformation. It is a « miserable attempt » of the magazine to distract from Trump’s security policy. The additionally published chat news confirmed that no secret information had been shared. Hegseth only informed the group about an ongoing assignment that had previously been communicated via official channels.

US soldiers in mortal danger?

Democrats and experts evaluate the spread of such concrete information on an immediately impending military strike through a messenger service that does not begin to meet the security standards for the exchange of such information, but as a complete taboo break, the soldiers who were involved in the use.

A former spokeswoman for the Ministry of Defense from the term of office of the Democrat Joe Biden, Sabrina Singh, on X, Hegseth had disclosed the course of the entire operation and the aircraft types before the operation even took place. « He jeopardized the life of our combat pilots. Details like these are secret. I am absolutely stunned. »

In mid-March, the US military had attacked massive positions of the Huthi-Miliz in Yemen in mid-March. The military strokes against the Huthi have continued since then. The militia dominates large areas in the region and especially in Yemen. After the outbreak of the Gaza War between Israel and Hamas in October 2023, she started attacking the Jewish state out of solidarity with the Islamist terrorist organization with rockets and drones. They also started with attacks on ships – especially those with alleged connection to Israel – along the coast of Yemen on one of the most important sea routes for world trade.

Internal discussion about external presentation of the attacks

In the chat, the senior government members also discussed with heated how the attacks against the Huthi should be represented externally – and whether the most Europe does not benefit for its trade if the shipping streets in the region were made safe again.

So Vance wrote: « I just hate helping Europe out of the term. » Hegseth replies: « I share your disgust of European Schmarotzen. That is pathetic. » Elsewhere, Vance openly doubted whether his boss Trump was aware of how the campaign arrives with a view to his other course to Europe: « I am not sure whether the president is aware of how much this contradicts the current messages about Europe. »