Senior American officials seemed to send plans to strike Houthi journalists

The White House confirmed that a journalist had been added unintentionally to a group chat in which US national security officials planned a strike against the Houthi rebel group.

Jeffrey Goldberg, Editor -in -Chief of the Atlantic Ocean, I mentioned On Monday, he was added to a signal of signal messages that included accounts bearing the name of White House National Security Adviser Michael Waltz and Vice President of JD Vance.

“At this time, it appears that the anchor that was reported is authentic,” Brian Hughes, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said in a statement to the British Broadcasting Authority. “We are reviewing how an unintended number has been added to the series.

“The thread is evidence of deep and thoughtful political coordination among senior officials,” he said.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday afternoon that he was not aware of the article of the Atlantic magazine.

On March 15, The United States launched What he described as a “decisive and strong” series of air strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.

Four days ago, on March 11, Goldberg wrote that he had received a call to the encrypted messaging application signal from an account claiming to be Mr. Walz.

The signal is used by reporters and Washington officials due to the safe nature of communications, the ability to create borrowed names, and send hidden messages.

Two days later, Goldberg said he had been added to a signal chat entitled “The Small Houthi PC group”.

Goldberg said that there are a number of accounts that seemed to belong to members of the Council of Ministers and National Security officials in the chat.

Accounts called “JD Vance”, the name of the Vice President; “Higseth House”, Minister of Defense; And “John Ratcliffe”, Director of the CIA; She was among the names in the chat. Senior national security officials from various agencies appeared.

At some point while calling on strikes, it seemed that the account described by “JD Vance” was not consistent with Trump, Goldberg said.

“I am not sure that the president realizes the extent of this inconsistency with his message to Europe at the present time,” wrote at about 8:15 on March 14.

“There is another danger to see a moderate rise to severe oil prices.

“I am ready to support the team’s consensus and keep these concerns for myself.

“But there is a strong argument for delaying this month, and doing the correspondence about the reason for the importance of this, knowing the location of the economy, etc.”

In a BBC statement on Monday, Fans William Martin spokesman said that the vice president “unambiguously supports the foreign policy of this administration.

Martin said: “The president and the vice president had later talks about this and fully compatible,” Martin said.

Goldberg wrote that at the beginning, “he had very strong doubts that this textual group was real, because I could not believe that the United States National Security Command would continue on a sign of imminent war plans.”

However, Mr. Goldberg states that he continued to watch the conversation.

On March 15, he wrote that he was sitting in a supermarket parking lot, watching Communications Communications about the strike.

When Mr. Goldberg examined X for updates about Yemen, he saw reports of explosions in the capital of SANA.

The Trump administration launched strikes on March 15. In a social publication of the truth, Trump wrote that “funded by Iran, the Houthi thugs fired rockets at American aircraft, targeting our forces and allies.”

The president wrote that the “Houthi piracy, violence and terrorism” had cost “billions” and endangering.

The Houthi official posted on X that 53 people were killed, BBC mentioned.

Publicly, Trump administration officials merged on TV to talk about strikes.

“We hit them overwhelmingly and put Iran in the event of notice that it is enough,” Walz said in ABC News.

The American strikes against the Houthis were continuing. They launched additional strikes against the Houthis all night until Monday, the Associated Press reported.

Goldberg said officials also discussed the possibility of Europe to push the US protection of the main shipping corridors.

“Whether it’s now or several weeks from now, it should be the United States that reopen these shipping corridors,” written by the account associated with Waltz on March 14.

The message continued, saying that at the request of Trump, his team was working with the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs “to determine how to collect the associated cost and impose them on the Europeans.”