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Captain thumbs-in-his-pants bombs Houthis even after his NatSec people leak information [1]
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Date: 2025-03-24
These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.
Most of the Cabinet and Trump’s senior national security team were coordinating strikes on Yemen in a “signal chat” and nobody noticed they accidentally added a reporter. They accidentally texted a journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, from The Atlantic, their top-secret war plans on Yemen. Perhaps Putin shares in their text circle chat.
2) Our allies are watching.
It’s worth also considering how our allies will read this story too. The first Trump administration had plenty of its own problems protecting valuable national security information — remember Trump telling the Russian foreign minister about a classified Israeli operation? — and Trump out of office famously kept all manner of classified intel in the bathroom at Mar-a-Lago. Now add to that troubled record the worrisome appointment of Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence. Now add to that the recent Trump rhetoric raising concerns about US reliability as an ally or defense partner. Now add to all of that two new stories from just the last 100 hours: The idea that Elon Musk was going to be briefed on secret China war plans and now, the very next business day, a stunning example of the Trump principals mishandling sensitive operational war plans. Put all of that together and ask yourself: Is this a government and group of people you’d want to share your own sensitive intelligence with? Is this a government and group of people you’d be willing to share intelligence that put lives of your operatives or agents at risk? The CIA director posted an active undercover intelligence officer’s name in the group chat for pete’s sake. There are already moves to isolate the US from international intelligence sharing — and surely this story will only accelerate those conversations, to our detriment and our allies’ detriment.
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x American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY
[image or embed] — The Atlantic (@theatlantic.com) March 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen.
I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had texted me the war plan at 11:44 a.m. The plan included precise information about weapons packages, targets, and timing.
This is going to require some explaining.
The story technically begins shortly after the Hamas invasion of southern Israel, in October 2023. The Houthis—an Iran-backed terrorist organization whose motto is “God is great, death to America, death to Israel, curse on the Jews, victory to Islam”—soon launched attacks on Israel and on international shipping, creating havoc for global trade. Throughout 2024, the Biden administration was ineffective in countering these Houthi attacks; the incoming Trump administration promised a tougher response.
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