Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, tried to slam Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic’s newest article, in which the editor-in-chief released all of the messages from Trump officials’ Signal chat after he was inadvertently invited into the group chat. Hegseth took to the Bad App to lash out at Goldberg, but it’s a strange flex.
“So, let’s [sic] me get this straight. The Atlantic released the so-called “war plans” and those “plans” include: No names. No targets. No locations. No units. No routes. No sources. No methods. And no classified information,” he wrote.
“Those are some really shitty war plans,” he continued. “This only proves one thing: Jeff Goldberg has never seen a war plan or an “attack plan” (as he now calls it). Not even close.”
As I type this, my team and I are traveling the INDOPACOM region, meeting w/ Commanders (the guys who make REAL “war plans”) and talking to troops,” Mr. Tough Guy added. “We will continue to do our job, while the media does what it does best: peddle hoaxes.”
That’s not even a good try because there are receipts, and it was definitely an OPSEC breach by unintentionally allowing the journalist into the chat. A former CIA attorney explains:
