New Texts Prove Hegseth Leaked ‘Court-Martial’ Level Secrets
www.thedailybeast.com
Trump’s top officials insisted no classified information was included in the chat, but defense sources now contradict that claim.

Summary

The Atlantic has published unredacted attack plans (non-paywall link) shared in a Signal group chat of senior Trump officials, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and DNI Tulsi Gabbard.

Editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg released the full texts after officials denied sharing war plans or classified information, arguing transparency was necessary amid accusations of dishonesty.

The leaked messages detailed U.S. military strikes targeting Houthis in Yemen.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16611·
    6 days ago

    The Atlantic putting a paywall on this when they got the texts for free from a government handout is peak America…

      • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        6 days ago

        Exactly why I used to subscribe to the Washington Post until Bezos wiped his ass with it. I’ll have to look into subscribing to The Atlantic now.

        • bean@lemmy.world
          6·
          6 days ago

          Yeah I’m considering dumping NYT too. I heard Reuters was a better ‘investment’. Please someone tell me if that’s wrong. I don’t want to support Billionaires.

          • Logi@lemmy.world
            3·
            5 days ago

            Wired “has been killing it” during the ongoing soft coup, to quote my journalist wife, and we’ve replaced our WaPo subscription with that. We can never dump NYT just because of the recipes.

        • CobraChicken3000@lemmy.caEnglish
          5·
          6 days ago

          I have been The Atlantic subscriber for about 5 years now. I think it has pretty great writers on staff. Their physical subscription is pretty cheap too.

      • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        This was a gift given to the Atlantic, though. I guess you gotta milk it for what it’s worth.

      • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca
        48·
        6 days ago

        I’m not disagreeing in a general sense, but it’s funny to make that argument here when this info basically fell into the journalist’s lap. Very little actual journalism went into making this story possible

        • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          6 days ago

          But think of how much money is going to be needed for the security detail this guy is gonna need for the foreseeable future. Or the costs of retaining legal representation to help him navigate through what is guaranteed to be an endless sea of investigations, frivilous lawsuits, etc. that the Trump administration is guaranteed to launch until something sticks.

          I wouldn’t be getting on any planes any time in the near future if I were him either.

          This story may have fallen into his lap, but it sure as hell wasn’t free.

    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      6 days ago

      JG got the texts for free but he’s probably gonna need someone watching his 6 now. And I’m pretty sure a lawyer is billing for helping them figure out how to publish the details and still avoid getting trapped into anything illegal, like naming the CIA agent.

      • dellish@lemmy.world
        8·
        6 days ago

        Nah, the guilty parties already told congress nothing the texts did not contain classified material, so releasing them should be fine. It’s not like this administration would suddenly change its mind now, surely.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        161·
        6 days ago

        OP linked an archive link, and updated the post to have it.

        But I clicked it before and had the same reaction as if I opened a box labeled “dead dove”.