US Group Chat Included Key Yemen Raid Details

The Atlantic magazine has published fresh messages from a group chat among senior US officials in which they discuss operational details of plans to bomb Yemen, spurring leading Democrats to accuse Trump administration officials of lying to Congress by claiming the messages did not contain classified information.

- Chris Michael

The initial revelations by the magazine and its editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, who was accidentally added to the chat on the messaging app Signal, have prompted an outcry in the US.

The Trump administration has faced withering criticism over the leak of sensitive information, including in a House intelligence committee hearing yesterday featuring two participants in the chat: the US director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and the CIA director, John Ratcliffe.

The magazine did not initially include specific details of the attack, saying it did not want to jeopardize national security. But as numerous Trump administration officials claimed that none of the information shared was classified information, the Atlantic said in a new article yesterday that it was now releasing the full transcript of the conversation.

It reproduced numerous messages from the text chat between the Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth - who said on Tuesday that "nobody was texting war plans" - and top intelligence officials. They included details of US bombings, drone launches and targeting information of the assault on Yemen's Houthi militia - who have been attacking shipping in the Red Sea - including descriptions of weather conditions.