Along with raising alarm about a massive national security breach—and questions about the competence of top officials in the Trump administration who “inadvertently” added a journalist to a Signal group chat about plans to bomb targets in Yemen—the incident that
Atlantic reporter Jeffrey Goldberg publicized this week included an apparent “confession” of at least one alleged war crime.
As Common Dreamsreported Wednesday, Goldberg released the entirety of the group chat that was held via the commercial messaging app Signal, following denials by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt that any classified information was transmitted in the discussion.
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In addition to making clear the detailed plans for attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen using F-18s and drones, the conversation included a brief message from National Security Adviser Michael Waltz in which he appeared to casually describe a strike on a civilian target in Sanaa.
Waltz first praised Hegseth, Central Command leader Gen. Michael Kurilla, and the intelligence community for an “amazing job,” saying a “building collapsed” after U.S. intelligence identified a Houthi leader who was targeted for a strike.
