{"id":13697,"date":"2025-04-22T16:24:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/?p=13697"},"modified":"2025-04-22T16:24:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:24:44","slug":"leaked-messages-show-trump-officials-discussing-war-plans-amid-escalating-yemen-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2025\/04\/22\/leaked-messages-show-trump-officials-discussing-war-plans-amid-escalating-yemen-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Messages Show Trump Officials Discussing War Plans Amid Escalating Yemen Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Benjamin Barry\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Staff Writer\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"ose-gettyimages ose-uid-d82f15e019e1e529f59e66ee4ab8d208 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:723px; height:623px; max-height:623px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"GettyImages\"><a id=\"2vffW1UrRG9PcIudBqp3xA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2207022670\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:\"2vffW1UrRG9PcIudBqp3xA\",sig:\"BRLba57r5Wg2mm3wpcjt2e0Kyagv_OLumaBFrVfyg00=\",w:\"594px\",h:\"396px\",items:\"2207022670\",caption: false ,tld:\"com\",is360: false })});<\/script><script src=\"\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\" async><\/script><\/div>\n\t\t\t<script>\n\t\t\t\tif (typeof gie === 'function') {\n\t\t\t\t\tgie(function(){\n\t\t\t\t\t\tvar iframe = document.querySelector('.ose-embedpress-responsive iframe');\n\t\t\t\t\t\tif(iframe && !iframe.getAttribute('title')){\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tiframe.setAttribute('title', '')\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On March 24, 2025, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Atlantic<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, published\u00a0 an article in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Atlantic <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">titled, \u201cThe Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War\u00a0 Plans.\u201d In the article, Goldberg revealed how several of the highest-ranking officials in the\u00a0 Trump administration accidentally included him in a group chat to discuss missile strikes on Yemen. These officials included Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, CIA\u00a0 Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Special Envoy Steve\u00a0 Witkoff, and other members.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The group chat was created on Signal, a messaging app that, according to the\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Associated Press<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, has been used for government purposes before, but strictly for non classified information. In fact, the Biden administration used the app but emphasized that\u00a0 it was only to be used for organizational purposes or to notify somebody they had sent a\u00a0 classified message through the appropriate channels. Goldberg reported that he had\u00a0 received a message request on the app on March 11 from Mike Waltz, the White House\u00a0 National Security Advisor. On March 14 and 15, discussions in the group chat, with\u00a0 Goldberg included, centered on potential strikes on the Houthis in Yemen.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ABC News<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reports that strikes began on the 15th, hours after Pete Hegseth sent a\u00a0 detailed missile strike plan into the group chat. The message included details on the\u00a0 targets, the times and sequencing of strikes, the fighter jets to be used, and more.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Upon the story initially breaking, many members of the Trump administration gave\u00a0 mixed responses when questioned by the media and the public. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NBC News<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reports that\u00a0 Pete Hegseth stated, &#8220;Nobody\u2019s texting war plans, and that\u2019s all I have to say.\u201d These\u00a0 comments were made a day after the initial story broke, before Goldberg eventually\u00a0 released another article with full screenshots of the group chat. When Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, was asked about this during a Congressional hearing on\u00a0 this matter, she initially claimed to not remember the chat\u2019s contents, but denied that\u00a0 classified information was discussed, according to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politico<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, according to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NPR<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the administration conducted an internal\u00a0 investigation, resulting in the determination that none of the information was classified.\u00a0 Many opponents of this opinion, both Democrats and some Republicans, point to the fact\u00a0 that if these messages had been leaked prior to the strikes, it could have put the lives of\u00a0 Americans in the military in danger, as it included information on where planes would be,\u00a0 down to the exact time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With this rapidly evolving story, many have begun to raise wider questions around\u00a0 the new administration&#8217;s handling of classified information. In fact, as a result of the\u00a0 increased scrutiny, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politico<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reports the Trump administration had used Signal to host group\u00a0 chats about sensitive topics before. According to four people who have come forward\u00a0 anonymously who were a part of these group chats, over 20 have been made for issues\u00a0 including the Middle East, Ukraine, China, Europe, and more. All of these four people also\u00a0 stated that sensitive information was discussed in these chats.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As mentioned prior, Signal is not an authorized app for the use of sharing classified\u00a0 information. Not only is it less secure than official governmental channels, but the app has\u00a0 also has a feature that allows users to set messages to delete after a certain period of time.\u00a0 According to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The New York Times<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, two different laws, the Presidential Records Act and the\u00a0 Federal Records Act, mandate that all governmental communication be recorded and\u00a0 stored. If messages are automatically deleted by the app, using it for such sensitive\u00a0 information becomes highly illegal. While many of these records are only kept temporarily,\u00a0 the Presidential Records Act requires any and all communication from the President and\/or\u00a0 Vice President be preserved permanently.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Legal action has already been taken in response to the leak, with the nonprofit group\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">American Oversight <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">filing a suit against several of the members of the group for the leaking\u00a0 of \u201cpotentially classified information about active military operations.\u201d Furthermore, a judge has ordered the administration to preserve the messages sent between March 11 and\u00a0 March 15 over Signal, as reported by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NPR<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In the screenshots provided by Goldberg, the\u00a0 messages in the group chat were set to delete in a week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of\u00a0<em>Getty Images.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 24, 2025, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, published\u00a0 an article in The Atlantic titled, \u201cThe Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War\u00a0 Plans.\u201d In the article, Goldberg revealed how several of the highest-ranking officials in the\u00a0 Trump administration accidentally included him in a group chat to discuss missile strikes on Yemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2845,382],"tags":[456,514,656,1446],"class_list":["post-13697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2845","category-international-news","tag-yemen","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-conflict"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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