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Noyi Adahnu
Mar 25 2025
207In the early hours of the day, Jeffery Goldberg, a journalist for The Atlantic shared some shocking news he discovered from a closed conversation between top us officials concerning top security information. This information includes details about weapons, targets and timing for different attacks.
In Goldberg's Staten, he revealed that he received a connection request on Signal from a user who was named Micheal Waltz. The Signal is a communication app with an encrypted messaging service that is popular among journalists and other individuals who want more privacy in their messages. Goldberg said although the name was the name of President Donald Trump's national security advisor, he did not expect that the request would be from the actual Michael Waltz.
He accepted the connection request with hopes that there would be discussions concerning important security matters. However, two days later at Thursday 4:28 pm, Goldberg said he received a notification that he was added to a Signal group chat called the "Houthi Pac small group."
The first message he received from the group was from "Micheal Waltz" and it read: "Team – establishing a principles [sic] group for coordination on Houthis, particularly for over the next 72 hours. My deputy Alex Wong is pulling together a tiger team at the deputies/agency Chief of Staff level following up from the meeting in the Sit Room this morning for action items and will be sending that out later this evening.”
It was after this message was sent that the journalist discovered that he had been included in a White House principals committee meeting with top US officials on a messaging app. One minute after Micheal Waltz's message, another message popped on by a user identified as "MAR" wrote "Mike Needham for State" and at the same time another user "JD Vance" wrote, "Andy Baker for VP". A minute after that another user "TG" who he presumed to be Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence or someone impersonating her wrote "Joe Kent for DNI". Other messages dropped following that with names of other US officials.
After receiving this message, Jeffrey consulted his colleague regarding the matter suspecting it to be a disinformation campaign by foreign intelligence to embarrass journalists.
The next day which was Friday at about 8:05 a.m., a message was sent by "Micheal Waltz" which read “Team, you should have a statement of conclusions with taskings per the President's guidance this morning in your high side inboxes.” (High side, in government parlance, refers to classified computer and communications systems.) “State and DOD, we developed suggested notification lists for regional Allies and partners. Joint Staff is sending this am a more specific sequence of events in the coming days and we will work with DOD to ensure COS, OVP and POTUS are briefed.”
There was also a reply to that message by the user JD Vance who responded saying he was out in Michigan for an economic event but he thinks they were making a mistake. He also sent some other messages to the group indicating why the idea was not right.
Some screenshots of the chats. Photo Credit: The Atlantic
Other messages which are considered really important were dropped in the group and subsequent discussions followed. At exactly 8:27 on the same day, another message was sent into the group by the user "Pete Hegseth" reading “VP: I understand your concerns – and fully support you raising w/ POTUS. Important considerations, most of which are tough to know how they play out (economy, Ukraine peace, Gaza, etc). I think messaging is going to be tough no matter what – nobody knows who the Houthis are – which is why we would need to stay focused on: 1) Biden failed & 2) Iran funded.”
On Saturday, another update was posted by "Pete Hegseth" which contained confidential information that is of high importance to the US security system and other important conversations followed through.
On Sunday the journalist removed himself from the group and through his reports, did not receive any questions or concerns concerning why he left the Signal group chat. Although he left, he still sent an email to Waltz and a message on his signal account asking questions on the authenticity of the group and the reason why a journalist would be added to a group that discussed the US's confidential top secrets.
Lawyers said that Signal is an unapproved platform for having classified government information and the government already has implemented a system for this purpose putting these officials at risk of leaking classified information if their phones were lost or tampered with. Although all conversations in texts about official acts are meant to be kept preserved, Waltz set some of the messages to disappear after a week and some after four weeks, raising questions about whether these government officials have violated federal records laws.
Under records of the White House, all government officials were prohibited from using messaging apps like Signal for official businesses except the messages were forwarded or copied to an official government account. Although discussing official business was regarded as a violation, adding a journalist who was not supposed to be exposed to such information was the major concern regardless of whether the journalist was an intentional act or not.
There is still debate as to whether there was a violation of federal laws by these officials. However, the public is still waiting for more information regarding the statement dropped by the journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg while some are still waiting to confirm if the messages were dropped by actual government officials.
This revelation raises serious questions about government transparency, national security, and potential breaches of federal laws. Should officials be held accountable for discussing classified matters on unapproved platforms? And what does this mean for the integrity of U.S. intelligence? Share your thoughts—do you think this was a genuine leak, a disinformation campaign, or something else entirely?
