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The editor who received the war plans (no doubt war plans) published this today:

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump's Advisers Shared on Signal

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic's editor in chief.

By Jeffrey Goldberg and Shane Harris

www.theatlantic.com

The government recipients - CIA dir, Gabbard, Hegseth, Natl Sec advisor, et al - lied to Congress yesterday when they said the Signal group texts didn't include war plans sent 2 hours before the attacks. They named specific targets, times, specific aircraft, munitions to be used, etc.

The linked article is paywalled but Goldberg, who was inadvertently included, includes screen shots of that text thread.

The story is, of course, much worse if Goldberg is telling the truth (either he or Hegseth is lying; there's no middle ground). But even if that part of the story isn't true, there is hardly a more sensitive fact that we need to keep secret than that senior American policymakers are discussing a surprise military strike. You carefully guard that discussion, whether or not it includes coordinates, targets, methods, or strike times. This leaves me asking once again the Casey Stengel refrain: Can't anybody here play this game?

#76 | Posted by lee_the_agent

Goldberg is the one telling the truth. To wit:

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump's Advisers Shared on Signal

The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic's editor in chief.

By Jeffrey Goldberg and Shane Harris

The statements by Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe, and Trumpcombined with the assertions made by numerous administration officials that we are lying about the content of the Signal texts"have led us to believe that people should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions. There is a clear public interest in disclosing the sort of information that Trump advisers included in nonsecure communications channels, especially because senior administration figures are attempting to downplay the significance of the messages that were shared.

Experts have repeatedly told us that use of a Signal chat for such sensitive discussions poses a threat to national security. As a case in point, Goldberg received information on the attacks two hours before the scheduled start of the bombing of Houthi positions. If this information"particularly the exact times American aircraft were taking off for Yemen had fallen into the wrong hands in that crucial two-hour period, American pilots and other American personnel could have been exposed to even greater danger than they ordinarily would face. The Trump administration is arguing that the military information contained in these texts was not classified"as it typically would be although the president has not explained how he reached this conclusion.

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