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neohippie

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Mon Mar 24, 2025, 01:43 PM Mar 2025

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans [View all]

Source: The Atlantic

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

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.



Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151



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Just wow, but her emails

Trump security team clearly violating operational security and likely the records act using Signal app and setting messages to self delete
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