{"id":547,"date":"2025-03-26T17:09:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T18:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/?p=547"},"modified":"2025-03-31T11:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:42:33","slug":"hegseth-jeff-goldberg-has-never-seen-a-war-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/hegseth-jeff-goldberg-has-never-seen-a-war-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth: ‘Jeff Goldberg has never seen a war plan’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday doubled down on his assertion that he did not share classified plans to strike Houthi targets in a Signal group chat of Trump administration officials that was inadvertently shared with a journalist, who he claimed \u201chas never seen a war plan.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a combative\u00a0post to the social platform X<\/a>, Hegseth lambasted The Atlantic’s editor in chief,\u00a0Jeffrey Goldberg,\u00a0for publishing\u00a0the Signal group chat<\/a> messages, in which the Pentagon chief relayed details about airstrikes in Yemen earlier this month that an initial article on the matter did not contain, including the specific timeline of the airstrikes and what weapons would be used.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Atlantic said it wanted to make public the texts so that readers could see them for themselves, given that Hegseth and other national security officials have accused Goldberg of lying about the content of the group chat in an attempt to discredit his reporting.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo names. No targets. No locations. No units. No routes. No sources. No methods. And no classified information,\u201d Hegseth said in his post.<\/p>\n

The messages The Atlantic released do show specific information related to weapons used and the timing of attacks \u2014 including the exact times American F-18 fighter aircraft and MQ-9 drones took off for Yemen before the March 15 airstrikes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis Signal message shows that the U.S. secretary of defense texted a group that included a phone number unknown to him \u2014 Goldberg\u2019s cellphone \u2014 at 11:44 a.m. This was 31 minutes before the first U.S. warplanes launched, and two hours and one minute before the beginning of a period in which a primary target, the Houthi ‘Target Terrorist,’ was expected to be killed by these American aircraft,\u201d Goldberg and national security and intelligence reporter Shane Harris wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this text had been received by someone hostile to American interests \u2014 or someone merely indiscreet, and with access to social media \u2014 the Houthis would have had time to prepare for what was meant to be a surprise attack on their strongholds. The consequences for American pilots could have been catastrophic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are some really s—-y war plans,\u201d Hegseth said in his post. \u201cThis only proves one thing: Jeff Goldberg has never seen a war plan or an ‘attack plan’ (as he now calls it). Not even close.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hegseth\u2019s response follows arguments from other Trump administration officials, including White House press secretary\u00a0Karoline Leavitt, who have latched on to The Atlantic labeling the Signal messages an \u201cattack plan\u201d in its latest headline rather than a \u201cwar plan\u201d in its previous report.<\/p>\n

Goldberg, meanwhile, has called that argument semantics, and The Atlantic noted that the White House opposed its publishing of the information.<\/p>\n

Pentagon press secretary Sean Parnell also released a statement Wednesday in which he called The Atlantic reporters \u201choax-peddlers\u201d\u00a0and said the additional Signal chat messages \u201cconfirm there were no classified materials or war plans shared.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Parnell insisted Hegseth\u2019s messages were \u201cmerely updating the group on a plan that was underway and had already been briefed through official channels.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump administration in the past few days has pushed hard to downplay the significance of its top national security officials texting such sensitive information over the messaging app.<\/p>\n

President Trump, when asked about the new The Atlantic reporting during a radio interview, insisted there weren\u2019t details in the released chat that compromised anything, repeating that it was \u201creally not a big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vice President Vance said in a\u00a0post to X<\/a> that Goldberg \u201coversold what he had.\u201d<\/p>\n

And national security adviser Mike Waltz, who admitted Tuesday evening that he had mistakenly added Goldberg to the chat, said the published details included \u201cNo locations. No sources & methods. NO WAR PLANS.”<\/p>\n

That hasn\u2019t placated multiple lawmakers, including Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Chuck Schumer\u00a0(D-N.Y.), who on Wednesday called for Hegseth to be fired or resign.<\/p>\n

Some in the GOP, meanwhile, have called for an investigation into the information breach, with Senate Armed Services Committee Chair\u00a0Roger Wicker\u00a0(R-Miss.) on Wednesday saying he believes the information detailing the attack plan against the Houthis should have been classified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday doubled down on his assertion that he did not share classified plans to strike Houthi targets in a Signal group chat of Trump administration officials that was inadvertently shared with a journalist, who he claimed \u201chas never seen a war plan.\u201d\u00a0 In a combative\u00a0post to the social platform X, Hegseth lambasted The Atlantic’s editor in chief,\u00a0Jeffrey Goldberg,\u00a0for publishing\u00a0the Signal group chat messages, in which…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogetterlifestylebrand.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}