Atlantic magazine launches more details about Trump’s signal chat

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Atlantic magazine published more excerpts from the Trump administration’s group chat, indicating that the timing of details of military strikes in Yemen, a day after senior officials claimed that the stock exchanges do not contain secret information.

The messages will make more pressure on the administration about what is described as one of the most exciting security violations at the higher levels of power in Washington in recent years.

Donald Trump The scandal was rejected as a “defect” and stood by Mike Waltz, the National Security Adviser, who created a group chat on the application of the reference and invited Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic Tala’an editor, inadvertently to participate.

In its latest publication, the Atlantic is cited one text at 11.44 on Saturday, March 15th of the Minister of Defense Higseth House He reads this: “I just confirmed W/ Centcom (Central Command, the leadership of the army fighters to the Middle East) we are going to launch the mission.”

“1215et: F-18S Launch (First Strike Pack)”, the text continues.

Critics say it is unprecedented for senior officials to discuss such a very sensitive information that touches on the vital American national security interests on an informal and commercial messages platform.

Senior legislators in Democratic Party They seized the accident to collide with what they saw as incompetence at the highest levels of Trump administration.

The Atlantic Ocean decided to issue the full text after senior officials of the Trump administration, including the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Ratcliffe and Tolsi Gabbard, director of the National Intelligence, at the Senate on Tuesday that no materials classified in the sign chat were shared.

The magazine said that she initially decided to block specific weapons and the timing of the attacks in certain texts, saying that it had not been published as a general base information about military operations if “could” endanger the lives of American individuals. “

But she said that the assurances of administration officials “led us to believe that people should see texts in order to reach their own conclusions.”

She said: “There is a clear public interest in revealing the type of information included in Trump’s advisers on unsafe communications channels, especially because senior management personalities are trying to reduce the importance of the messages that have been shared.”

Goldberg wrote in the New Atlantic article that he had received information on attacks against Houthis Two hours before the starting start to detonate their sites.

The texts of The Atlantic, which are separated by the accurate times when the aircraft takes off from American aircraft companies and launches their missiles – the information that is considered classified in general. However, the texts did not specify the actual targets of attacks, using words such as “targeted terrorist”.

In response to the Atlantic article, Waltz wrote on the social media platform: “There are no sites. There are no sources and methods. There are no war plans.” He said that foreign partners had already been notified that the strikes were imminent. “The bottom line: President Trump protects America and our interests,” he added.

The White House reduced the latest disclosure and insisted that the administration was completely transparent in response to revelation.

“This administration is working hard on behalf of the American public every day, but the main media is still focusing on an exciting story from the failed Atlantic magazine that is collapsing in the hour,” journalist Secretary Caroline Levitte told reporters on Wednesday.

“We have said all the time that no material classified on the topic of this messages was sent, there were no sites, and no sources or roads were revealed, and there were certainly no war plans.

She added: “The real story here is the overwhelming success of President Trump’s decisive military action against Houthi terrorists.”

The case took control of the Senate Intelligence Committee sessions in Washington on Tuesday, when Democrat Mark Warner said it was “another example of dirty, neglected behavior, especially towards the classified information.”

Ratcliffe told members of the Senate that his contacts in the signal message group “were completely permitted and legal and did not include secret information.”

He said that the use of the signal had been approved at the highest level, as a “mechanism for coordination between officials at the level of senior”, although he acknowledged that he had not considered a substitute for the safest communication platforms to discuss classified information.