The Atlantic Responds, supporting documents, to pressures from the White House. The American magazine published this Wednesday, March 26, The military plan of military attack of the American army Against the Houthis in Yemen, of which its editor-in-chief was the accidental recipient, after the government of Donald Trump said on Tuesday that these exchanges were not protected by the Secret-Defense.
This second article, after the one on Monday which revealed the case, includes screenshots of messages from the United States Minister of Defense, Pete Hegseth, with the precise schedules of the strikes planned against the rebel group of Yemen, two hours before these did not take place on March 15.
Shortly after this second publication, the deputy chief of staff of the White House, Taylor Budowich, strongly criticized these new revelations of the magazine, believing that journalists “are lying to maintain a new hoax”. “The Atlantic conceded: it was not war plans,” said Karoline Leavitt, Donald Trump spokesperson.
US vice-president JD Vance, who participated in the signal messaging group behind this resounding military security flaw, also accused The Atlanticto have “occurred” its revelations.
The title of the first article in the prestigious publication on Monday, which revealed the case, was entitled “The Trump government was mistakenly sent me its war plans”. The editor -in -chief of The AtlanticJeffrey Goldberg, said it was mistakenly added in a signal discussion loop, in which the highest officials of the United States government discussed, including the Pentagon and CIA chiefs, upcoming strikes against the Houthis, allies of Iran.
Donald Trump had minimized this spectacular flight on Tuesday, calling it as a simple “glitch” emanating from a “twisted” journalist. “There was no shared classified information” in this discussion group, said the American intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday.
F-18 takeoff
The magazine tells, in its new article, having contacted government officials after these declarations, to ask them if they therefore agreed for more precise messages to be published than those mentioned in the first article. The White House said it was unfavorable, according to The Atlanticwhich still published most of the exchanges, only masking the name of a CIA agent.
“12:15 pm: Decollage of F-18S (first strike group)”, writes Pete Hegseth on this conversation group created by the national security advisor of the White House, Mike Waltz.
“The terrorist target is in its known area so we should be on time – and also, departure of drone strikes (MQ -9),” wrote the Minister of Defense on March 15, in a telegraph style.
The Houthis claim that these American strikes left around fifty people dead and a hundred injured. On Tuesday, Donald Trump only conceded that Mike Waltz was going to “probably” abstain “immediately” to use the signal private messaging again, at the heart of this case. Interviewed for his part on Fox News, the latter said he assumed his “whole responsibility” after this “error”.
The Democratic opposition has been attacking Donald Trump’s government since Monday on Monday on Monday. Senator Mark Warner notably castigated “the negligent, reckless, incompetent” attitude of the lieutenants of the Republican President.